What I've read: Haven't done this for a while, so I actually have read things! I got CB the Pusheen the Cat book and volume 1 of Chi's Sweet Home for Christmas, so I read those and was suitably bowled over by the cute. Pusheen is great, but I really love Chi's Sweet Home, which is just so cat. Possibly people might get annoyed by Chi's baby talk, ( Read more... )

I read!

What have you read? I finished Anuja Chauhan's The Battle for Bittora a few days ago, and I even managed to write it up.

What are you reading? Kind of a cheat, since I actually started it two weeks ago, but I am a chapter or two into Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child. Despite having been forewarned of the general mother ( Read more... )

What I've read: Woe, didn't manage to finish anything this week. At least it was mostly because I was being social!

I did forget to note that I read Sampson Davis' Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home. I really wanted to read about the medical cases intermixed with personal knowledge of the intersections of health and race ( Read more... )

OMG I read stuff! I suspect this is largely because I am out of playable content on Here Be Monsters and have run out of suitably addicting puzzles on my phone.

What I've read: I finished the new Cecilia Grant, A Woman Entangled, and even managed to write it up. Overall, it has a lot of the things I've been liking about Grant's books so far: lack ( Read more... )

What I've read: Finally finished review copy of Tokyo Demons and reviewed it! And because last week, I was craving fantasy + romance, I naturally blazed through Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. It's a fun book about how con man John Drewe got artist John Myatt to forge hundreds ( Read more... )

I read this because despite having been to several weddings, I can still never quite figure out what to do/what you're supposed to do. This is even more confusing now that I am part of sister's wedding party and therefore have things to do that extend beyond the day of the wedding ( Read more... )

Mukherjee is an oncologist, and while he was undergoing advanced training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, he decided to keep notes of his year. The notes ended up growing and growing, until he wrote a general overview of cancer, from historical personages who may have had cancerous growths to our ( Read more... )

This is a collection of fifteen years' worth of essays by Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), currently the associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Many of the pieces turn out to be introductions to specific art exhibits, although while I was reading, I often didn't figure that out until the very last few paragraphs of the ( Read more... )

As the title notes, the book is Pauline Chen's own reflections on mortality throughout her medical career, from her first experiences with dissecting cadavers in med school to her current thoughts on how end-of-life care should be dealt with by the medical community ( Read more... )

This is a short book on Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic, with personal stories and anecdotes supplied by Dow, a Botswana judge and novelist, and more general information about AIDS and HIV supplied by Essex. I picked this up because the cover copy promised something that wasn't just "Africa is DOOMED!," and I liked that it specifically focused on ( Read more... )