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A review by siobhanward
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
informative
slow-paced
3.5
NYT Notable Books 2022: 14/100
This was a dense read. As someone who has not thought much about cells since I took grade 11 biology over a decade ago, this was a bit of a heavy read. Mukherjee did offer a lot of background info, including a primer on organelles for those of us who have forgotten, but this was still a ton of info. Mukherjee is clearly passionate about his work and it really shows in the amount of detail included in this book. I like that it was part history, part case study, part modern science and all together a really informative book, I just think I struggled with how much information was in it.
This was a dense read. As someone who has not thought much about cells since I took grade 11 biology over a decade ago, this was a bit of a heavy read. Mukherjee did offer a lot of background info, including a primer on organelles for those of us who have forgotten, but this was still a ton of info. Mukherjee is clearly passionate about his work and it really shows in the amount of detail included in this book. I like that it was part history, part case study, part modern science and all together a really informative book, I just think I struggled with how much information was in it.