Plot:
Can you even imagine if someone asked you what your job was, and you legitimately replied that you were a Volcanologist? Because that’s actually a job that some people can have. It blows my mind. Jess Phoenix is a Volcanologist. In Ms. Adventure, she shares stories of working on the side of a volcano with hot lava flows, studying the ocean depths, being the only woman on most job crews, and chasing down cartel members when they stole her favorite rock hammer. This book is part science, part memoir, and part adventure.
What I loved most:
I used to say that I wasn’t a science person. Chemistry and physics were my least favorite classes in high school. My brain leans more toward books and writing than it does toward atoms and matter (and yes, I definitely just googled “physics basic concepts” to have an example of a physics thing that I’m not drawn to. #crushing it). But THIS BOOK Y’ALL. Phoenix makes science SO interesting, and SO accessible to absolutely anyone who wants to learn. You are so wrapped up in reading about lava flows and the ocean depths that you forget you’re actually learning scientific concepts. Come for the volcanoes, stay for the incredible scientist teaching you geology.
Read this book if you like:
Memoirs, science (but even if you don’t like science, read this anyway), adventures, smashing the patriarchy by dominating in your field
Book details:
- Author: Jess Phoenix
- Publisher: Timber Press
- Date of Publication: March 2, 2021
- Interest Level: Adult
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