The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack by Rebecca Skloot 🔖🔖🔖🔖

This book has a resume! 

I enjoyed much of this book. I think the author did a great job in making Henrietta a human being for the reader. With the incredibly limited information available on her life, the task was huge. I also appreciated that she was able to discuss cells, structure, and science in a way that made sense to my non-science mind. The jumping back and forth in time fames was difficult for me, but that probably says more about my inability to follow non-linear stories than it says something about the book. I also felt like I had to trudge through some of the family drama. While I see the importance of understanding the tragic influence this all had on the family, it felt arduous at times. Overall enjoyable though I'd not recommend it for all.

Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling) 🔖🔖🔖

I had to ponder on this one to determine the star level. I settled on 3.

I think it was well written and it kept my interest. There were a lot of F words, but it didn't detract from the story for me. I do wish the clues would have been laid out in a fashion wherein I could have understood the crime as in depth as Strike did prior to him revealing it at the end.

Character development was not the highlight. I was surprised Strike chose a particular activity later in the book, but wondered in retrospect why it surprised me. There was nothing about his character development throughout the book that would give me insight into that choice point.

Overall enjoyable. Don't need to keep it, won't necessarily recommend, but I'd not tell people to avoid it, either.