"Forgive My Fins" ... A very nice read!

Well, I am making progress toward my goal of reading a book a week this year.  I have now finished "Forgive My Fins" and have moved on to a Nonfiction title; "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot was suggested by a colleague for a possible student read.  Yesterday, was the first day I opened the book and after reading for about a hour, I am on page 80.  This is a title with significant content but easily understood.

A brief summary:  You may or may not have heard of Henrietta Lacks but you or somebody you know has probably benefited from something her family did not even know about ... You see, Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer.  The Doctors took some of her cancerous cells without her knowledge.  It was those cells that helped developed, among other things, a vaccine for polio!  The book takes the reader through a multitude of issues including ethics, race, medicine, and healing.  A definite suggestion -

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