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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ben Stanger
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From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Finally the Bride: Finding Love after Walking down Everyone Else's Aisle
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| I had avoided Barbara Kingsolver (as I do most bestselling authors), but this book popped up as a suggestion for me and I decided to give it a try. I was blown away - this book is tied for my favorite read of 2025. The characters are rich, and the st ...more | |
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My new book, TABLE FOR TWO, came out on Tuesday. I hope that's soon enough!
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| After reading A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway, I thought it could not get any better. And it's a tough call, but Table for Two may have hit that bar. The short stories that open the book are scrumptious appetizers, while the aptly-title ...more | |
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From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine:
"I cannot even begin to speak about how much I enjoyed this book! I have stepped away from science since completing my biology degree and moving on to nursing so I knew jumping into this book would be a tough read but an enjoyable one. It really remin"
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“and then back toward science when he was young, to the happenstance procedural modifications that allowed him, as a student, to detect what others had missed. In many ways, his path echoed the unpredictable journey that cells take as they find their own way in the cellular society, following their internal compasses at the same time that they respond to outside influences. For as we have already seen, embryonic development is the archetypal example of nature and nurture working in synergy.”
― From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
― From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
“The fundamental truth of our origin is this: every animal on earth starts its life as a single cell. But how does all the information necessary to make something so complex get compressed into something so simple?”
― From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
― From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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