Lindsay Hinck, Associate Professor
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

It is a book that I really fall into, reading it to the exclusion of other activities. I've read it a number of times -- once after I finished my Ph.D. and traveled to the South Pacific and another time when I was very pregnant waiting for my second child to arrive. Each time it seemed new because there are so many subplots and story lines. And the overarching theme is one I relate to-that there are at least two ways to live a life, as a dreamer like Augustus McCrae who sees no reason to work or as an achiever like Woodrow Call who works for work sake, getting satisfaction from a task well done. When I read Lonesome Dove, I reflect on my own life and how I am choosing to live it.