PopSugar Reading Challenge 2021 discussion

What book have you read that is about a subject you are passionate about? Is that passion also your career?

I read Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky for this prompt. I would say that the topics discussed in the book directly correlate with my career as a helping professional. Highly recommend this book...10/10!

I read Execution by S. J. Parris. The book is one of the Giordano Bruno series and is set at the time of the Babington Plot against Queen Elizabeth. I have loved Tudor history since childhood. It is also a crime thriller which is a genre I enjoy and Babington came from an area of Derbyshire which I also like very much, so it was a good fit all round.

I'm not a historian, an ex-monk, or a plotter so no correlation there!

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
I'm fascinated by the history of medicine. This one relates a my job
a bit as I am a microbiologist and Lister pioneered techniques to prevent infection post surgery.

I read Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light for this prompt. A quote taken from her author's note sums it up nicely, "Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray." I enjoy how Picoult takes complex legal topics and creates stories that examine how these legal matters affect people.

I plan on rereading The Shadow of the Wind, which has been called "a love letter to literature." It's about books, bookstores, authors, censorship, and how these things can change your life. Surprise, I'm a librarian!

I just finished reading SISU: Find Your Resilience The Finnish Way. I grew up hearing this Finnish word and way of life from my dad (who learned to speak Finnish before he learned English when he went to school.) This is one of the few Finnish words I know.