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This book was one of 23 books in a box of books shipped to me from books2give of Springville, Tennessee.

Thank you so much for your generous donation of books for the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720). I will be very happy to help this book and your others keep right on travelling. :)

This book is being released at a BCinDC meetup at Tyson's Corner food court on the third floor, near the movie theater and Five Guys in Tysons 1. Enjoy the book...or, at least, keep it travelling! :)

I am going to hand off this book to 6of8 to put in MaryZee's (rest in peace, dear friend) Book Box called "Biographies of Things".

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Thanks, Squeaky, I will put this aside for the book box.

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I'm claiming this from the Biographies of Things bookbox. I like reading medical-mystery books - and as I actually got Lyme disease once, I have a personal interest in this one! (Caught it in time, though the course of antibiotics wasn't fun.)

Later: Fascinating account of a particular microbe with an impressive history, told with respect and some artistic flair. The author begins with a sketch of different types of biographies, from Brief Lives to Emminent Victorians, and gives nods to early biographies-of-things based on insects, salt, beards, and more - including a nod to George Stewart and his "engaging book-length biographies of a storm, a fire, a road and a rock". Yes, I've added several titles to my want-to-read list thanks to this chapter alone!

The book touches on the theory that all advanced life forms came about due to invasions of early cells by early bacteria, creating larger and more complex beings. So not only are we hosts to large numbers of microbes, many of them vital to our existence, but we may actually be made of them in a way - an interesting viewpoint...

I loved the way the author's admiration for his subject comes out in the text, such as when he describes its ability to reproduce while doing other things - this "dueling while making love seems to have no human equivalent". Hee! He also gives a nod to the film "Fantastic Voyage", by way of describing the journey of Bb's travels from host to host through its lifecycle. And he gives due respect to ticks, which are pretty intriguing in their own right.

The reasons behind the fairly-recent discovery of Lyme in humans are provided here, with respect to the parents whose early intervention re their children's strange symptoms helped bring the disease to the attention of the medical community earlier than might otherwise have happened. Symptoms, preventatives and treatments are mentioned - though the author apologizes for switching to the human viewpoint after setting out to write the biography of the germ Bb: "I must respect the fact that if it did not cause Lyme disease, we would not know it existed - and if we did know, few would care. To Bb we are a significant accident but a dead-end host..."

A wonderful example of a biography-of-things!

I'm adding this to the Biographies of Things bookbox, which will be on its way to its next stop after the Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy!

This book made a short stop in Colorado before continuing on in the Biography of Things bookbox (still traveling in honor of maryzee

I selected this book from the Biographies of Things bookbox. Thank you!

I recently read this book because I was interested in Bb and the effects of Lyme disease on the human body. Who knew there was so much to say about the life of a bacterium? I did skim some parts out of boredom.

I put this book back in the Biographies of Things Bookbox.

Small hardcover with dust jacket.

Claimed from the 2023 edition of the Biographies of Things bookbox with thanks.