#treatingdiseases

Much as I love my A-levels, I am looking forward to exams being over

I have a lot of books I want to read in the summer 

Priority goes to the three in the bottom photo that I bought with my own money months ago- I’ve barely touched two of them. In Pursuit of Memory is about Alzheimer’s treatments, and The Beautiful Cure is about how the immune system can be used to our advantage in treating disease. Junk DNA is about research into the 98% of DNA that was thought not to code for any proteins. 

Then- fiction from my mum’s bookshelf. My favourite radio series is without a doubt the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so I am keen to read Douglas Adams’ other major series, Dirk Gently. There is also a radio series of Dirk Gently, directed by Dirk Maggs who handled the later four series of Hitchhiker’s, but I want to read the original books first before looking into that. (Hitchhiker’s on the other hand started out as a radio series- in the second radio series especially there is a lot of material not in any of the books, and in general it is a gem of a radio series listen to it if you can. The first two books were adapted from the radio, and the later four radio series adapted from Adams’ latter three books and Eoin Colfer’s book, which I didn’t like but I found the recent radio adaption better.) 

Also- Archy and Mehitabel. These are poems from The Past, written (allegedly by a friend of the author (Archy) who has been turned into a cockroach and communicates by writing on a typewriter. He can only press down one key at a time though so there is no punctuation only

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