Life Lessons I Learned From Bones

In case you aren’t familiar with it, Bones is a medical/crime show centered around the character of Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, who studies the bones of the dead to solve crime.  The show is inspired by Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan novels.  The show is quite different from the novels, but no less good.  I began watching it several years ago.  In fact, I didn’t even like the first episode I watched!  I’d read the books and was curious, but the episode did not move me.  Then, some time later, I was looking for things for my Christmas List and decided to give it another shot.  And I loved it.  I loved it so much that I bought and watched the subsequent seasons until I was caught up, then began watching it live. For any Bones fans – what I’m about to talk about contains MAJOR spoilers up till last week’s episode.  Read at your own risk.

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