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bigs2021's review
5.0
I really enjoyed this very personal story, backed with lovely moments and memories. There is a great message within as well—multiple great messages, actually.
Recommended!
Recommended!
emmaas_bookshelf's review
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
Such an inspiration. I love how it was kind of a memoir too. It was a little slow at parts though.
jenmooremo's review
4.0
Full disclosure: I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway and enter them frequently to help expand my reading and stock my Little Free Library outside my home. I do not especially enjoy science, but do love plants and memoirs, but was worried I wouldn’t like this book, so it sat for awhile. Then I heard Dr Quave on The People’s Pharmacy one morning and decided it was time.
What happened? I loved the book, but find it hard to describe. Is it a story of a strong woman with a determination to study and ask the big questions? One about a disabled individual who found a way to do what she loved? A confident woman who figured out at every roadblock how to move her career forward and still have the family she desired? (FYI-it helps immensely to have a supportive partner.) I think the book is all that and more. There’s adventure and science, but science explained where we can all understand. Recommend this to a young person who needs to see others succeed, someone who loves plants and gardening for a new awareness of the plants around them (and beyond) and that girl/woman who needs to overcome any doubts that she too belongs in science.
What happened? I loved the book, but find it hard to describe. Is it a story of a strong woman with a determination to study and ask the big questions? One about a disabled individual who found a way to do what she loved? A confident woman who figured out at every roadblock how to move her career forward and still have the family she desired? (FYI-it helps immensely to have a supportive partner.) I think the book is all that and more. There’s adventure and science, but science explained where we can all understand. Recommend this to a young person who needs to see others succeed, someone who loves plants and gardening for a new awareness of the plants around them (and beyond) and that girl/woman who needs to overcome any doubts that she too belongs in science.
mollysticks's review
5.0
Excellent read about the struggles of academia and also the plants that could save our lives. My one tiny critique is that at the beginning she kinda lumps fungi in with plants, and they are no the same at all. She doesn't out and out say that, but she doesn't make enough of a distinction for me. But again, that is small and others probs won't care.