Letters to Our Daughters Project quote

I found this today catching up on the posts of one of my favorite bloggers, Isis the Scientist. She writes a divine blog about being a woman/wife/mother while also being an amazing scientist and a bit of a shoe diva. She has recently begun a series of posts composed of letters of advice written for young female scientists, which broadly apply to young women in general. The quote is from a senior woman scientist's letter, written for her "daughters in science"- the women scientists who are coming up behind her. She writes:

GoodReads update

Number of books on my "already read" shelf: 213
(I had to remove a bunch of embarassing ones because my coworkers would tease me!)

Number of books on my "to-read" shelf: 127

Optimistic, much??

~Heather

I heart reading

When I was growing up, almost nothing made me happier than reading. My sister and I wore out the childhood books we had at our disposal (most notably the Little House series, whose paperback covers were in tatters by the time we hit our teens). We went to the library religiously, and devoured every piece of literature, great or not, that we could get our hands on. Later during our teenage years, we would each frequently stay up all night reading (or re-reading) a good book. (Our mom discovered this eventually, and began to start policing "lights out" a little more firmly than before.) Even sleep, which is arguably my favorite pastime, is no match for a good book!