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She took a girls trip there with Leslie Durso, formerly Leslie the Lab Girl with Bill Nye the Science Guy on his show Stuff Happens. Durso is now Vegan chef consulting at the Mexican Four Seasons. Lab Girl is a memoir composed of the personal stories of Hope Jahren, a geobiologist, geochemist, and, at the time of the book's writing, professor at the University of Hawaii. Jahren is a geobiologist from rural Minnesota who not only knows her trees and flowers, but “has some serious literary chops” (The Washington Post). Her award-winning, bestselling memoir Lab Girl tells the story of a young woman who finds friendship in odd places, battles bipolar disorder, perseveres. “Lab Girl” is the story of a girl who becomes a scientist. It’s also the story of a career and the endless struggles over funding, recognition and politics that get in the way. 'Lab Girl' by geobiologist Hope Jahren is both an investigation of the thrilling lives of plants and a deeply personal memoir. Jeffrey Brown has that. JEFFREY BROWN: Hope Jahren, welcome to you.
On The Good Doctor episode “Debts,”while Dr. Marcus Andrews (Hill Harper) vows to help a good Samaritan who was injured while stopping a sexual assault, Dr. Audrey Lim (Christina Chang) faces a difficult decision when a young patient’s parents suspect that Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) made a mistake. Dr. Morgan Reznick (Fiona Gubelmann) has an opinion on the matter.
When not filming The Good Doctor, Gubelmann is finding her inner zen in a bikini at the Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita in Mexico. See photo above.
She took a girls trip there with Leslie Durso, formerly Leslie the Lab Girl with Bill Nye the Science Guy on his show Stuff Happens. Durso is now Vegan chef consulting at the Mexican Four Seasons resort!
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My first book (released in 2016) is called:
LAB GIRL
It’s about work, and love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together.
You can read an excerpt from Chapter 3 here.
Penguin Random House Description: Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.
Praise:
“A beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees. Terrific.” —Barack Obama, via Facebook
“Lab Girl made me look at trees differently. It compelled me to ponder the astonishing grace and gumption of a seed. Perhaps most importantly, it introduced me to a deeply inspiring woman—a scientist so passionate about her work I felt myself vividly with her on every page. This is a smart, enthralling, and winning debut.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
“Some people are great writers, while other people live lives of adventure and importance. Almost no one does both. Hope Jahren does both. She makes me wish I’d been a scientist.” —Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder
“Lab Girl surprised, delighted, and moved me. I was drawn in from the start by the clarity and beauty of Jahren’s prose. . . . With Lab Girl, Jahren joins those talented scientists who are able to reveal to us the miracle of this world in which we live.” —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
Reviews:
“Engrossing. . . . Thrilling. . . . Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.” —The New York Times
“Clear, compelling and uncompromisingly honest . . . Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature
“Spirited. . . . Stunning. . . . Moving.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A powerful new memoir . . . Jahren is a remarkable scientist who turns out to be a remarkable writer as well. . . . Think Stephen Jay Gould or Oliver Sacks. But Hope Jahren is a woman in science, who speaks plainly to just how rugged that can be. And to the incredible machinery of life around us.” —On Point/NPR
“Brilliant. . . . Extraordinary. . . . Delightfully, wickedly funny. . . . Powerful and disarming.” —The Washington Post
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“Lyrical . . . illuminating . . . Offers a lively glimpse into a scientifically inclined mind.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Revelatory. . . . A veritable jungle of ideas and sensations.” —Slate
“Warm, witty . . . Fascinating. . . . Jahren’s singular gift is her ability to convey the everyday wonder of her work: exploring the strange, beautiful universe of living things that endure and evolve and bloom all around us, if we bother to look.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Deeply affecting. . . . A totally original work, both fierce and uplifting. . . . A belletrist in the mold of Oliver Sacks, she is terrific at showing just how science is done. . . . She’s an acute observer, prickly, and funny as hell.” —Elle
“Magnificent. . . . [A] gorgeous book of life. . . . Jahren contains multitudes. Her book is love as life. Trees as truth.” —Chicago Tribune
“Mesmerizing. . . . Deft and flecked with humor . . . a scientist’s memoir of a quirky, gritty, fascinating life. . . . Like Robert Sapolsky’s A Primate’s Memoir or Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, it delivers the zing of a beautiful mind in nature.” —Seattle Times
“Jahren’s memoir [is] the beginning of a career along the lines of Annie Dillard or Diane Ackerman.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A scientific memoir that’s beautifully human.” —Popular Science
“Breathtakingly honest. . . . Gorgeous. . . . At its core, Lab Girl is a book about seeing—with the eyes, but also the hands and the heart.” —American Scientist
Reader Reviews of “Lab Girl” on Goodreads
Accolades:
International Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2016)
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Named One of the Best Books of the Year (2016) by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus reviews.
Named One of Slate’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years.
Finalist, PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2017)
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Finalist, Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Nonfiction (2016)
Longlisted, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2016)
Included within the “Big Read” by the National Endowment for the Arts
Translations: 23 languages including Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Junior Library Guild Rating:Accelerated Reader (Level 8; Points: 18); Lexile Level 1240L; recommended for grades 11 & up.
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, e-Book and Audiobook (read by the author).
Purchasing Options:
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