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angela_oI've got a cold, am dealing with an imminent deadline, it's raining, I've got a school committee meeting tonight (and did I mention it's raining?) for which I need to make a potluck entree, and E broke his ankle last Thursday at basketball practice and is now in one of those walking boots that looks like a ski boot on steroids and will miss weeks of the season. But, I wanted to get my latest books down before I totally forget about them.
#107 is Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. The story of Doctor Paul Farmer and his work on behalf of the poverty-stricken, marginalized, and ill around the world. You thought one person can't make a difference? Think again! An eye-opening read to the problems and potential solutions of global inequities in healthcare and one that I highly recommend.
#108 is A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. A YA set in upstate New York roughly a hundred years ago and loosely based around the murder that Dreiser used in An American Tragedy. It's always amazing to realize that the "olden days" really weren't that long ago.
#109 is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This month's book club book. A series of vignettes centered on the life of a street in Chicago peopled by immigrants and the working class. Very much a change of pace from my normal reading.
#110 The Year of My Indian Prince by Ella Thorp Ellis. A quasi-autobiographical story about a young girl diagnosed with tuberculosis at the end of WWII in California and her treatment in a sanitarium. It's hard to believe that people were still being shut away for years in the middle of the twentieth century. While she was there, the author/protagonist was courted by the son of an Indian majarajah. In retrospect, the timing on this one is interesting because TB and its treatment is a huge part of Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Now, to work I go. With no heigh hos.
#107 is Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. The story of Doctor Paul Farmer and his work on behalf of the poverty-stricken, marginalized, and ill around the world. You thought one person can't make a difference? Think again! An eye-opening read to the problems and potential solutions of global inequities in healthcare and one that I highly recommend.
#108 is A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. A YA set in upstate New York roughly a hundred years ago and loosely based around the murder that Dreiser used in An American Tragedy. It's always amazing to realize that the "olden days" really weren't that long ago.
#109 is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This month's book club book. A series of vignettes centered on the life of a street in Chicago peopled by immigrants and the working class. Very much a change of pace from my normal reading.
#110 The Year of My Indian Prince by Ella Thorp Ellis. A quasi-autobiographical story about a young girl diagnosed with tuberculosis at the end of WWII in California and her treatment in a sanitarium. It's hard to believe that people were still being shut away for years in the middle of the twentieth century. While she was there, the author/protagonist was courted by the son of an Indian majarajah. In retrospect, the timing on this one is interesting because TB and its treatment is a huge part of Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Now, to work I go. With no heigh hos.
