Book Report: Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall

This was suggested as the Boneshaker Science Book Club selection for January, and I accepted that recommendation readily, because I was completely out of ideas. I guess I thought it would be more of an overview of her life’s work or more of a conventional memoir, but instead it’s a framing of her life in terms of her religious beliefs, which was not terribly interesting. The discussion at the book club was a lot more interesting than the book itself, and touched on Dr. Goodall's "religious privilege," which I thought was a great way to express the way that I feel about how she presents her beliefs. She had a very pleasant, un-forced religious upbringing, so she has positive feelings about it, and doesn't seem to realize that many others had different experiences with religion.