"Henrietta Lacks", "Trowel" & "Marley"

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Three rather biographical audio-books in a row:

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" / Rebecca Skloot
__ The many tumors that grew inside Henrietta "looked like pearls inside her."
__ HeLa cells can grow in suspension and are (luckily) susceptible to the polio virus.
__ the "Hela Bomb" / headless tobacco farmer

"Trowel and Error" / Alan Titchmarsh (whose 'my' sounds like 'me')
__ losing control of the counter-weight as a rite of passage for a bell-ringer
__ singing Latin names of plants to La Donna È Mobile
__ hard landscaping as framing coming before the picture, i.e. the plants
__ Betty Davis is said to blow "square smoke rings"
__ "reassuringly baffled by life"
__ getting an MBE ("my bloody efforts")
__ attending the Worst Sex Scene In a Novel award with Stephen Fry, (though Sebastian Faulks won.)

"Marley and Me" / John Grogan
__ Marley can spit out mango pits that look like they've been dropped in acid.
__ The lengthy note for the dogsitter included Marley's earwax buildup problem.

("King's Speech" / Mark Logue & Peter Conradi)
__ During coronation, the thread to mark the front of the crown was lost.