2018 Airing of Grievances: Least Favorite Books of the Year
24 Festive Tasks: Door 19 – Festivus, Task 1: It’s the annual airing of grievances! Time to list the top 5 books that disappointed you the most this year and let us know why! I’ve been blessed with a pretty amazing reading year in which disappointments were few and far between — so it […]
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Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon
Epidemics are horrible. Well, duh … In substance, I don’t really have a whole lot to add to my one ill-humored status update on this book. This is the book-form equivalent of a cross-breed between tabloid journalism and a series of superficial, but opinionated and self-centered blog posts: short on bonafide science, history, and […]
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Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon — Status Update: 107 of 336 Pages
This reads like a series of blog posts by an overconfident twentysomething with an only superficial grasp of both history and medicine / science, who won’t, however, let her lack of in-depth knowledge and research keep her from jumping to unsupported conclusions by the dozen. (All of which being said with profound apologies […]
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