Possible Goodbye to the Blog

2018-05-27T17:34:00.000-07:00

I've been blogging for about 6.5 years. I've never had a ton of followers, but the few interactions I did have were, for the most part, pleasant. I review books that are usually not very popular, and I think that may have made it difficult for people to interact via my posts.

Given the new laws concerning data privacy for EU visitors to blogs, and the fact that I find it to be a lot of work to create blog posts that are particularly appealing/engaging, I may be calling an end to this blog.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has followed and commented on the blog. I'm still around via email, Twitter and GR. That info will remain up on my contact page for a while at least. I may end up making this blog private in the future.

I do plan to still review all the titles I read on Goodreads, so if you are a GR user, please do follow me there. The direct link to my GR profile is located here if you'd like to talk books. If authors stumble onto the blog and would like to contact me for book reviews, I'm open to them. Just be aware that I will likely only review on Goodreads, Amazon, or Chapters (Canadian book retailer site) from now on. If you would like to send me book review requests, the email to send them to is on my contact page.

I may return here in the future, I just don't know.

Review: The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It

2018-03-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It by Ricki Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

*Please note I won this via Goodreads Giveaways.*

Melissa's Musings

This book is really well written. Being that it deals with gene therapy, it has a lot of scientific background in it. I've taken biology a few times. Once in high school, once when getting my BA, and once when going back to school to get an associate's degree to be able to do a work exchange program. I took it so many times not because I didn't get it, but because it is easiest science to digest, IMO. So. I learned multiple times over about brain body connections, proteins, DNA, axons, neurons, etc. All of which helped me in reading this book.

Although, I will say, that this is written in such a way that even if you don't have much scientific background, it's still easy enough to understand.

I honestly thought this would be more of a third party memoir, about Corey, the boy who's treatment "saved" gene therapy. But it doesn't focus on him nearly as much as I thought it would. Instead it's more of a combination of short chapters on a variety of people and the disorders they live with, and some of them, ultimately die from.

As easy as this was to read, I do have to admit that I was less invested in Corey's story by the end. I skimmed over the last few pages of the book. He still had a way to go in his treatment from the sound of things, since they only did the gene therapy on one eye, so it would be interesting to find out where he is at in that process these days.

Even though this was less memoir and more scientific than I was hoping, it's still a great read.

Have you ever researched gene therapy, or read any books on it?

Melissa's Midnight Musings

Possible Goodbye to the Blog

Review: The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It