Book twelve: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

I can't say much about this book now because I read it for our book club meeting next month. As a result of reading it, though, I am donating money to the scholarship fund created by the author to help benefit the descendants of Henrietta Lacks. A Google search showed that HeLa cells were used in studies of every scary disease doctors thought Henry might have back when his neutrophils took a nosedive, and HeLa cells were used to help develop vaccines that Henry has received. If you feel your family has benefitted from scientific research in the past 60 years, I invite you to do the same. Donations can be made at The Henrietta Lacks Foundation.

12 down plus 40 and volume 1 of the Norton Anthology of English Literature to go.