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I’m doing things a bit backward. I had hoped to finish posting the rest of my reads from the end of last year. That’s just not happening right now. Too much “other” going on at the moment. And, of course, I’ve got several books from this<\/em> year that I should be posting first…but this seemed like the right place to start, on the right day. <\/p>\n

See, yesterday would have been Dr. Sally Ride’s 64th birthday, had cancer not had different plans for her. It seemed only right, then, to make a special effort to finish Lynn Sherr’s recently released biography on Dr. Ride, very aptly and originally named Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, as I commented elsewhere, when you have the distinction of having been the first American woman in space, there really isn’t a more appropriate or better title than that for your biography. <\/p>\n

As I already stated, I finished reading this book last night. I couldn’t stop thinking about it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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