What's on the nightstand?
22 Mar 2018 16:31:09 UTC
Topic 214139
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I thought I'd start a thread about books in hopes that there are other readers here and not to clutter up another thread.
I am currently reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Well written, sobering and important, I highly recommend it. Has anyone else read it?
Books on the nightstand include Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do? by Michael Sandel and The Martian by Andy Weir.
Snags
Lots of books and magazines
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Lots of books and magazines on the stand. Some partially read, others waiting their turn.
Kiplinger's Financial Guide (magazine)
Dwarves and War of the Dwarves by Markus Heitz (first of the series)
Journal Watch (Gen Med) Bimonthly Publication
ATLS (That is moving to the front of the line for the next month)
Z
Zalster wrote: ATLS (That is
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What are these two? Advanced Trauma For Life Support?
Is that Z as in Zombie or as in Zelda Fitzgerald?
I was re-reading The Grand
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I was re-reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, but put it down for too long - and lost my place in it, which probably means I'm going to have to re-re-read quite a bit of it before I can say I've read it again.
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
I have, but have not yet
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I have, but have not yet started "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" by his Holiness the Dalai Lama. I really need to get motivated, but I am so easily distracted.
I finished The Martian. It
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I finished The Martian. It was good but not as good as I was expecting it to be. I was expecting the isolation to have an effect on him but he seemed to barely notice it. I haven't seen the movie. Perhaps they interpreted it differently. Did anyone see the movie or read the book? Or both?
Snags
Added to the nightstand The
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Added to the nightstand The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore.
At present, I Contain
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At present, I Contain Multitudes - The Microbes Within Us by Ed Yong; with The Wisdom of Wolves - Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack to follow.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward and White Rage by Carol Anderson.
A tube of Blu-Emu cream to
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A tube of Blu-Emu cream to ease my aches and pains so I can sleep better.
Juggling between Jeff
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Juggling between Jeff VanderMeer's Borne and Hawkings a Brief History of Time at the moment.