From HeLa to Who Done It

I finished The Immortal Life of Heneritta Lacks the other day, and sort of like a cup of hot chocolate it was good until the last word. I shed a few tears as I read the last few pages of the story, but I won't tell you why. I definitely recommend this book. Even if you're not a big non-fiction fan I think you'll enjoy it. Rebecca Skloot tells the stories behind the people, and you get the background of all the characters just like a made up story.


Now that I've finished a recently published book, I've headed back almost 120 years to a well-known street in England to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

I'm not a big fan of mysteries, but I downloaded it free from Amazon.com to my Kindle (!!!!!!!!) and decided I had nothing to lose.  The first adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia" was a bit predictable but I found myself laughing and enjoying it throughly.  It was a bit like "Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, Girls go to college to get more knowledge."






I just hope that if I'm ever being followed by a private investigator, I'll be able to get back at him just as "The Woman," Irene Adler.

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