Currently Reading:
- Medical Apartheid: The History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present Harriet A. Washington – 1/3rd of the way thru and I’m already saying “The medical communtiy owes the Black community a lot.” smh
- Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson – taking forever to read, still!!!
Shelved:
- The House of God Samuel Shem <— Honestly, reads to me a lot like Catch 22, which I hate reading because it makes me feel crazy…not sure when I’ll pick it up
- Middlesex Jeffery Eugenides – so far, so amazing that I want to sit and read the whole thing in a day or two, so it’s on hold for a while
- Beacon on the Hill Linda Kenney Miller – temporarily misplaced. Oops!
Recently Finished:
- I Know this much is True Wally Lamb – in my Top 5 books read
- Normal Amy Bloom
- Long Day’s Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill
- W;t Margaret Edson
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Randy Shilts
- Five Patients Michael Crichton
- The Hour I First Believed Wally Lamb
- Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
- How Doctors Think Jerome Groopman
- The Shack William P. Young
- Code Blue: A Katrina Physician’s Memoir Richard E. Deichmann, M.D.
Want to Read:
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee - 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner General Nonfiction
- The Life of Pi Yann Martel
- Three Cups of Tea Mortenson and Relin – must “borrow” from mom before I leave home
- She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb
- The Language of God Francis S. Collins
- The Heart Speaks Mimi Guarneri
- Shantaram Gregory Davis Roberts
- The Century of the Surgeon Jurgen Thorwald
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- The Godfather Mario Puzo – hadns-down my favorite movie; heard the book was an amazing read
