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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, M.D. Made into the very good NBC medical drama New Amsterdam.



Stories from the medical practice of a doctor who ends up getting throat cancer himself.

Open Secrets by Alice Munro. This is the first Munro book I’ve read, and now I want to read everything she’s ever written. Which one of her books should I read next?

Dave N. wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:27 pm Open Secrets by Alice Munro. This is the first Munro book I’ve read, and now I want to read everything she’s ever written. Which one of her books should I read next?

I read a shorts collection and it was great, but it seems there are several and I forget which. You won't go wrong with one of those.

Bob Katz - Mastering Audio: The art and the science

I finished Capital a couple of weeks ago. I think it took about 7-8 months, counting the 2-3 week breaks I took every so often. David Harvey's companion book and youtube videos were really helpful, especially for the first several chapters. Ultimately I really enjoyed it.

I'm on to Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War now. Only 50 pages in but it's excellent so far. I really don't have much knowledge on Spanish history so it's been very enlightening on that front.

Finally getting started on Foucault (History of Madness). Let's see where this goes.

Disturbing how much of this early modern "bourgeois absolutist" attitude to poverty described seems to be transferred wholesale to social democracy and communism.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:44 pm

Dave N. wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 11:27 pm Open Secrets by Alice Munro. This is the first Munro book I’ve read, and now I want to read everything she’s ever written. Which one of her books should I read next?

I read a shorts collection and it was great, but it seems there are several and I forget which. You won't go wrong with one of those.

Started reading Dance of the Happy Shades. She covers a lot of ground in a single short story. There’s something deeply satisfying about her work. The strong tie to place has a Faulknerian feel.

currently reading Dan Brown's "the Lost Symbol" which is an amazing crazy ass freemason conspiracy theory novel that has been a lovely way to end every day in bed.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Best read in smaller chunks, a chapter per day at most.

I decided that this was the year that I was going to read books about the Vietnam War so I started with The Centurions by Jean Larteguy. It's about French paratroopers getting captured right after the battle of Dien Bien Phu. About halfway through and they have already been released. 250 pages to go so I am assuming that they get sent to Algeria.