I picked up Jackson’s memoir about life as a surgeon in the UK because at one time I wanted to go into medicine (I didn’t). Jackson has lived his life all over the world doing what he loves — surgery, practicing medicine. (Why they call…
What would you do if a loved one came down with Ebola? Do you remember when if you went to a doctor’s office they asked if you had traveled outside the U.S. within a certain time period and where? That is what Richard Preston’s forthcoming…
Occasionally, I review in brief short works or books that have been reviewed hundreds or literally thousands of times. In this segment, below, are reviews of what has become known as summaries of books. These summaries are not a condensed version of the actual book…
I have to admit if Most Wanted had not been selected by the physical book club (as opposed to virtual bookclubs in Goodreads) for our August meeting, I may not have picked up the novel. Now that I did, I am glad I did. Lisa…
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain is a Scientific American Mind book and it reads that way for familiar with the magazine by the same name. It is a timeline sort of book of the brain’s activities. Examples include what part…
Imagine the world as you know it, whether as techno-commercialist, an antiquarian yesteryear, a back to the earth environmentalist, or simply as a bookworm visiting a relative in a hospital curled up in a waiting room with a good book and without warning everyone…
Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things is a densely packed book of the then evolving science of botany in the 18th and 19th centuries. Reading Signature was like taking a walk in the woods or in a botanical garden. Spanning the globe, from…
Younger is a novel that seemed to be part chick lit/women’s fiction and part thriller. The story begins like a thriller and throughout Younger, there are spies, Russians posing as Brits and vice versa, embassy officials, and targets as well as a host of dead bodies.…
I listened to Still Alice by Lisa Genova partly because it is a club read for Ladies & Literature on Goodreads. I also read it because my family on both sides has a history of dementia of varying kinds. I suspect that most families either…
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