Audiobook (6 hours) narrated by the author, John Green Publisher: Books on Tape (Listening Library)
John Green does an excellent job narrating his book.Audiobook (6 hours) narrated by the author, John Green Publisher: Books on Tape (Listening Library)
John Green does an excellent job narrating his book. The audio is flawless
What an extraordinary in depth look into Tuberculosis.
The author looks at not just the medical and scientific history, but also the social, economic, racial and sometimes racist, sometimes classist and more.
Who knew that I would learn the history and origin of the Stetson hat in a book about Tuberculosis?!?!
Way more interesting than I first imagined. So worth it whether you read it all in one go or take it in bites between other books or whenever. Not dry at all.
Audiobook (10 hours) narrated by Pat Rodrigues Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
I put in for the audiobook to be added to the goodreads list. In the meanAudiobook (10 hours) narrated by Pat Rodrigues Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
I put in for the audiobook to be added to the goodreads list. In the meantime, please enjoy this video from the publishers site: Thank you goodreads librarians for adding this edition so quickly! You are appreciated!
I am going to drop this one, it's just overly dry. I keep coming back to it, reading a little at a time and as much as I like the details, the delivery shouldn't be this difficult for someone who is interesting af. Others might enjoy the delivery, and it may go different if I was able to read it myself and skim over the more lackluster areas, but as an audiobook it's not working for me....more
The narration and audio quality are high, without distortion, erroneous noise, or obvious edits.
While I enjoyed listening to this book, I would recommend the print version or picking up both, to follow along for an immersive reading experience. With the print book you can refer to specific sections, and there are said to be meticulous footnotes and nearly 100 pages of end notes and index, which are not available in the audiobook version.
I decided to not finish the book as funny as it was, a lot of the things that were being mentioned weren't new to me and I wasn't getting out of it what I had expected.
Some of the things that are in the first half of the book that were pretty funny, in the if I wasn't laughing I would be steaming mad at the complete disregard for women.
Women's husbands were warned against allowing their wives to ride bicycles as women would get something called bicycle face, that would make us ugly. Further the increased used of bicycles by women cause some sort of bicycle masturbation addiction where women would ride bikes for sexual gratification. They didn't mention washing machine spin cycles, so either that wasn't an issue or removing washing machines from the wives would be problematic for their housewife duties.
Ladies Home Journal was said to have published articles stating that women could safely exercise without the fear of turning into men, with the exception of weight lifting, which would make us ugly.
For some reason the medical community once believed that blood was important to men but not women, so women who had symptoms that we now know to be anemia would be treated with blood letting. Blood letting was such an important medical treatment for women to get rid of the bad, and for some reason they determined that putting leaches directly on the labia was the way to go.
So I guess the fact that we have monthly periods means that blood isn't important for our survival?
How were we not killed off?
If you are interested in hearing about a bunch of things that happened in the not too distant past, as well as current bs treatment, or mistreatment rather, of women then pick up this book. The audiobook is fine, but if you want to flip through certain sections, as the book is laid out by area of the body, like skin, blood, muscles, etc, the print version is going to give you more freedom.
If you want women's medical information, anything by Dr.. Jen Gunter, who I linked above, is going to be a good read. Go for the print version, if you are able. She has a great index making it easy to find what you are looking for to refer back to important information after you give it a read through.
For statistics, the book that I listed above, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men goes into medical issues but also into other issues and statistics that are actually helpful, with knowledge that can keep you safe, like information about how car seats and belts are unsafe. Knowing what isn't safe, can help us to know what to look for, adjustments that we might be able to make to keep us safer while we advocate for equality in our right to be able to actually live and experience the world, as freely and easily as men....more
Audiobook (14 hours) narrated by Ed Yong, the author.
Over the last couple of weeks I have picked up and put down this book several times. As much as tAudiobook (14 hours) narrated by Ed Yong, the author.
Over the last couple of weeks I have picked up and put down this book several times. As much as the synopsis and top reviews make An Immense World sound like a fascinating experience, I was bored af. Every time I tried to listen, all I heard was blahblahblah.
Robin Miles is one of, if not my very favorite narrator. She just kills it, with a specialty in accents. SAudiobook (11 hours) narrated by Robin Miles
Robin Miles is one of, if not my very favorite narrator. She just kills it, with a specialty in accents. She narrates a few books by Octavia E. Butler, with unique accents that make the characters come to a whole other level of realism. Seriously, I have read books just because she is the narrator and I felt like it had been a while. This book is told completely in the third person. Robin does a great read of it, with fantastic pacing and volume. The audio quality is high with no distortions or erroneous noise. Due to the clarity of the narrator and the audio, it's possible to listen from 1x to 3x speed, if you wish to speed it up. It reads like a text book, so listen at a speed where it feels comfortable for you to listen and understand without straining.
The actual history, the story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose work should be known be every American, as well as every person on earth interested in space travel, especially out earliest space travel and the space race after WWII.
Margot Lee Shetterly took on the task of getting the story out there. As noble and awesome as it was that she got the information into peoples minds, the book she wrote is so dry that it's as hard to cross without dying of boredom as it is to hike across Arizona in July without water, at noon, alone, barefoot.
My rating is for the book, not the story.
The women get all the stars.
The book gets one because zero isn't an option.
If you don't know the story, and want to listen, go for 3x speed at times where you won't fall asleep and cause a traffic accident or injure someone with power tools. Or see the movie.
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