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The Reformatory

by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author)

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

by Greg Melville (Goodreads Author)

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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

by Mark Harris (Goodreads Author)

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Katie’s Notes & Highlights

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

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A general survey has shown paralysis agitans in its classical form to be a systemic degeneration of a special type affecting a neuronal system whose nodal point is the substantia nigra.

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Katie’s Quotes

“We all came from the sea once, and therefore anyone wishing to understand life on this planet has to first understand the sea.”
― Patrik Svensson, The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World — A Natural History

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“is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was and is no more, including the spruce tree that should have outlived me but did not.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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