Lab Girl

Botanist and geochemist (digging holes and analysing soil) Hope Jahren shares her life story of how she set out on her path to become a scientist, the many labs she built up over the path of her career, the demons she battled, and all the rush and the frustrations of discovery and hard work. The beautiful red thread through it all is her work partnership with Bill, the odd sidekick with whom she shares a love for nature, an unbreakable dedication to research and a great sense of deadbeat humour. The book is a wonderful mix of bizarre adventures and Jahren lays it all bare - the good, the bad, the painful. Absolutely recommend. I feel like i read a novel.