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Books I Read During the Pandemic That I Haven’t Had Time to Properly Review
Here are very short reviews of a few good books
During the pandemic, I actually haven’t read as much as usual. Real life has been distracting lately. Combined with some personal struggles and my final semester of college, reading just hasn’t been at the top of my list of things to do. However, I have managed to read some good non-fiction worth sharing, and so here’s a list of some books I enjoyed to take your mind off the world outside.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (5/5) By Rebecca Skloot
Immortal Life is one of the best portraits I’ve ever read of systemic medical racism in American health care. The book follows the story of the HeLa cells — the ovarian cancer cells taken without consent from a Black woman that turned into the worlds most frequently used cells for medical testing, contributing to many of the worlds most important medical findings. However, the book takes the doctors and racism in the medical establishment to task, as well as talking about the
