Gifting Me: Books

Two very kind people that I hold dear thanked me recently, for a service gladly and freely given, with an on-line gift card. Of course they need not have done that, but that is part of what makes them so special. And, of course, I chose to use the gift to buy books, an eclectic foursome of fiction and nonfiction, spanning real science, science fiction, economics, and wartime experience. In the order that I have read them, they are as follows. “Parasites: the Inside Story” (2022) was written by Scott L. Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Brenda Lee. All are from the University of Nebraska State Museum. Lead author Gardner is Curator of Parasites in the H.W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, as well as a Professor of Biological Sciences. The book is only 189 pages long, even with its numero…