Lab Girl

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, 290 pages.
Jahren writes the most interesting book about her career in the sciences. Her style is smooth and straight-forward, as she chronicles her career in the sciences. She writes of how she resents the way she has been treated in the that traditional boys-club, geosciences. She writes about her relationship with her long-time colleague, Bill Hagopian, and how their combined tirelessness, drive, and ability to use outdated or cobbled-together equipment led to their successes in the lab.
The author calmly relates many details of her own fascinating story in a surprisingly calm voice. Lab disasters, family dysfunction, and medical issues are discussed, but not obsessed over. There's little drama here, problems in the lab or in life are there to be solved. Jahren writes movingly and gracefully about trees, and dirt, and geologic features, A fun, great read.