Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover

This was definitely a 5 star Read!! I loved that you could follow the link and listen to the songs that the characters wrote in the book!!

 

Sydney is having the worst birthday ever! I know what you are thinking it can't be that bad but it is! She finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her roommate/friend. This is how Sydney ends up in the rain trying to figure out where to go until her mysterious/totally hot neighbor that she has been watching play guitar and helping write music gets her to stay at his place with his friend.

 

Ridge is super sweet and you can't help but to fall in love with him and when you add his best friend Warren into the mix it is hilarious because the boys like to play pranks on each other. Ridge and Sydney keep writing songs together but something starts to change between them! They both have an attraction to the other but there is one HUGE problem there and her name is Maggie. Maggie just happens to be Ridge's girlfriend for the past five years.

 

Sydney and Ridge fight the feelings they have the best they can but the heart wants what the heart wants! Will Ridge leave Maggie because he has something so strong with Sydney? You will just have to read to find out!! This book is all about love and music with a few surprises thrown in there! You can't help but fall in love with the characters!

Happy Reading

XOXO R

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

I never read these types of books unless I absolutely have to, this was an exception. I started reading this in the library to pass time since I was finished with my work one day. Suddenly, I got into it, it was listing all of this information about when specific things occurred in history about medicine. As a new student in the medical profession I was absolutely amazed! I think I would have been even if I wasn't going into the medical field. 

HeLa cells changed so much about medicine and scientific research for the greater good, but at the same time, Henrietta Lacks' family paid the price. Back then, it wasn't a crime or an issue to withhold information or not get a consent form signed for use of tissues and such. Now it is. The Lacks' family was treated badly and not included in anything. They are very happy what their mother's cells have done for medicine, they just wish they would have known, been asked, and been included.

This isn't just a story about the HeLa cells and Henrietta Lacks, it is a story about history of medicine, the history of the family, and it is a great one at that.

I have to say that I couldn't put this book down, and since it is a library copy, I will probably buy a copy for myself soon. This is a book of knowledge and ethical dilemmas all around. I felt as if I was right there with Henrietta's family, I cried when Deborah passed. 

This is a 5 star book and I absolutely love it and recommend it! 

-xoxo-T