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- Reader, Author
- Favorite Books:
- In This House of Brede by Taylor Caldwell.
- Favorite Genres
- Mystery, Historical Mysteries, and I read a lot of non-fiction.
- In my spare time, if I'm not reading, I'm:
- Doing art on my computer, cooking, riding my disability scooter somewhere, like to the library. If I'm not in front of a computer or book, I'm probably behind a camera. Look at my albums and videos.
- About Me:
- I am definitely overbooked. I have 25 books checked out right now, and another 30 on hold. I have been disabled for about 5 years by arthrits, fibromyalgia and depression. I have time to be overbooked. The picture is of my service dog, Friday.
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Readable Non-Fiction: Bryan Sykes
Bryan Sykes writes on the science of DNA. That may not seem to be very readable, but he breaks it down into layperson bite sizes, and makes it interesting. The first book of his I read was The Seven Daughters of Eve, which traces the ancestry of most Europeans to seven women through mitochondrial DNA, which is passed unchanged from mother to child. The first attempts to extract ancient DNA from bones lead to using mitochondrial DNA because it was the most plentiful, and had the sho… Continue
Posted on April 7, 2008 at 10:57pm —
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