My good friend from college, Emily, also has a blog (www.bucketofparts.blogspot.com) on which she recently had this post. She tagged me, so I'm now posting my recommendations:
Three fiction books everyone should read
1) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
2) Silas Marner - George Eliot
3) Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Three non-fiction books everyone should read:
1) What's So Great About America - Dinesh D'Souza
2) Miles Gone By - William F. Buckley
3) John Paul The Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father - Peggy Noonan
Three authors everyone should read:
1) Daphne Du Maurier
2) Oliver Sacks
3) Alexander McCall Smith
Wow - that was hard to come up with a top three. I think my mom will be the person most likely to 1) read my blog and 2) continue on the Top Three Recommendations! :)
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Ooooh...book buying spree!
Some months are worse than others in terms of being on call. This month has been particularly painful & I've been on call 8 times! Ouch. I must have made the chief resident mad somehow. Anyway- whenever I have a painful night on call, I feel justified in buying a book (or five) as a reward. Here's a list of some that I've recently purchased:
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
My all-time favorite book is Rebecca, by the same author & so when I saw this in the "Sale" section of B&N, it was a no-brainer buy. So far, I've read two chapters & am hooked. Also of note, I just listened to Rebecca's Tale, by Sally Beauman, and loved it. I had seen the book on the library shelf many times but always passed it by because it seemed so presumptious for another author to write a sequel to the classic - but, I'm so glad I finally gave in! I loved it!
The Few and The Proud - Larry Smith
I've been interested in reading books pertaining to the Navy & Marine Corps so that I'm more in tune with the patients I deal with every day. I especially enjoyed this book because it deals with Marine Corps' training. Reading this book only confirmed my belief that I would not have made it as a Marine. Heck, I barely made it through Officer training for Navy doctors! Ha! :)
The Sacred Bones - Michael Byrnes
Great book - mystery a la Da Vinci Code but dealing with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religions together. I always enjoy a good mystery - I'm 90% done with it, but as usual, I read the end already so I know it ends right too! :)
Speak Softly, She Can Hear - Pam Lewis
This was another book I found on the sale rack - I haven't started it yet, but I remember being intrigued by it when it was a new release.
On Call In Hell - A Doctor's Iraq War Story - CDR Richard Jadick
This book was interesting to me because it's written by a Navy doctor who is also a D.O. While I thought it was a great read, I often disagreed with his view of how doctors should function in the military. Playing the role of both a doctor & an officer is a complicated one, especially when on the front lines. I feel that I took the Hippocratic oath before I began serving as an officer and my goals are aligned accordingly. Others disagree, but as a psychiatrist in training, it is sometimes glaringly obvious how my khaki uniform and lieutenant bars make my patients uncomfortable. Maybe my views will change as I spend the next seven years of my life in uniform - we'll see. Regardless, it's a good read.
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
I recently finished Running with Scissors and liked it, despite the fact that it was outrageous at points. This is a book that doesn't portray psychiatrists in such a great light, but was a good read. I'm anxious to dig into Dry.
The Fifth Vial - Michael Palmer
Palmer's books are always enjoyable and so far, this one is great. I love books that combine mysteries with medicine.
The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber
What could be better - a mystery involving a priceless treasure from William Shakespeare? This book reminded me of the literature mystery The Thirteenth Tale when I perused it in Barnes & Noble and clearly had to buy it. I haven't started this one yet, but I think it will be next.
Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
Along the same lines as The Book of Air and Shadows, this novel is a mystery surrounding Isaac Newton. The cover of this book was enough to make me want to buy it. I'm a sucker for packaging. :)
I'm currently listening to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - by John Berendt. So far, very interesting. I may have said this before, but I didn't find out about books on CD until my second year of medical school. I frequently visit libraries, but somehow must have missed this section. I felt cheated - I'd been driving home to Fostoria for six years and could have listened to sooo many more books! So, now that I commute to the hospital and spend a good amount of my life waiting to go through a tunnel, listening to books on CD has made it all worthwhile. I've even gotten Grant into the same habit! :)
Now...if I only had some down time on call so that I could read all of these!!!
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
My all-time favorite book is Rebecca, by the same author & so when I saw this in the "Sale" section of B&N, it was a no-brainer buy. So far, I've read two chapters & am hooked. Also of note, I just listened to Rebecca's Tale, by Sally Beauman, and loved it. I had seen the book on the library shelf many times but always passed it by because it seemed so presumptious for another author to write a sequel to the classic - but, I'm so glad I finally gave in! I loved it!
The Few and The Proud - Larry Smith
I've been interested in reading books pertaining to the Navy & Marine Corps so that I'm more in tune with the patients I deal with every day. I especially enjoyed this book because it deals with Marine Corps' training. Reading this book only confirmed my belief that I would not have made it as a Marine. Heck, I barely made it through Officer training for Navy doctors! Ha! :)
The Sacred Bones - Michael Byrnes
Great book - mystery a la Da Vinci Code but dealing with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religions together. I always enjoy a good mystery - I'm 90% done with it, but as usual, I read the end already so I know it ends right too! :)
Speak Softly, She Can Hear - Pam Lewis
This was another book I found on the sale rack - I haven't started it yet, but I remember being intrigued by it when it was a new release.
On Call In Hell - A Doctor's Iraq War Story - CDR Richard Jadick
This book was interesting to me because it's written by a Navy doctor who is also a D.O. While I thought it was a great read, I often disagreed with his view of how doctors should function in the military. Playing the role of both a doctor & an officer is a complicated one, especially when on the front lines. I feel that I took the Hippocratic oath before I began serving as an officer and my goals are aligned accordingly. Others disagree, but as a psychiatrist in training, it is sometimes glaringly obvious how my khaki uniform and lieutenant bars make my patients uncomfortable. Maybe my views will change as I spend the next seven years of my life in uniform - we'll see. Regardless, it's a good read.
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
I recently finished Running with Scissors and liked it, despite the fact that it was outrageous at points. This is a book that doesn't portray psychiatrists in such a great light, but was a good read. I'm anxious to dig into Dry.
The Fifth Vial - Michael Palmer
Palmer's books are always enjoyable and so far, this one is great. I love books that combine mysteries with medicine.
The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber
What could be better - a mystery involving a priceless treasure from William Shakespeare? This book reminded me of the literature mystery The Thirteenth Tale when I perused it in Barnes & Noble and clearly had to buy it. I haven't started this one yet, but I think it will be next.
Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
Along the same lines as The Book of Air and Shadows, this novel is a mystery surrounding Isaac Newton. The cover of this book was enough to make me want to buy it. I'm a sucker for packaging. :)
I'm currently listening to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - by John Berendt. So far, very interesting. I may have said this before, but I didn't find out about books on CD until my second year of medical school. I frequently visit libraries, but somehow must have missed this section. I felt cheated - I'd been driving home to Fostoria for six years and could have listened to sooo many more books! So, now that I commute to the hospital and spend a good amount of my life waiting to go through a tunnel, listening to books on CD has made it all worthwhile. I've even gotten Grant into the same habit! :)
Now...if I only had some down time on call so that I could read all of these!!!
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