Book meme

[wraithfodder]

Okay, I snerched this from someone on my Flist, who posted books they had read or were reading, and I thought, why not. At least I'll be able to keep track of what I've read this way ;)

Books I’ve finished reading lately… and ah, yes, they’re all non-fiction.

 

The following two books are pretty self-explanatory and really fascinating:

 

Bitten –   True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings - by Pamela Nagami MD (and they cover insects and jellyfish and well, just about anything that stings or bites)

 

The Woman with a Worm in Her Head – Other True Stories of Infectious Disease - by Pamela Nagami MD (yeah, a woman really had parasites in her head)

 

The Up and Down Life: The Truth About Bipolar Disorder – the Good, the Bad, and the Funny – by Paul E. Jones (I found this book when I was at the library and they were showing a documentary film on Lyme Disease (to a packed house, since there’s so much Lyme in this area) and just spied it and thought, hmm, looks interesting, and it was.

 

 

In process:

 

Kitchen Table Wisdom – by Rachel Naomi Remen MD (almost done with this one, which is a doctor's accounting about humanity and the medical arts)

 

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science –  by Atul Gawande (halfway through; a surgeon writes about what it's like to be a surgeon)

 

How It Feels to be Attacked by a Shark and Other Amazing Life-or-Death Situations! – by Michelle Hamer (I just read a chapter here and there - I have yet to read the chapter on the person who got run over by a tractor - twice).

 

The Backpackers Handbook – by Hugh McManners (got this for a buck at a rummage sale and went, ah, I don’t backpack into the wilds, but now I know how to make a quinze)

 

Panic in Level 4 – by Richard Preston (Great collection of non-fic writing which I got from the library. Halfway through, read the Ebola chapter, the apartment turned into a supercomputer in the quest for pi (pi, not pie), and about a disease which causes the victim to eat his fingers. Eeeeuuuuu).

And............

 

.....all the in-process book reading will come to a screeching halt this weekend as today in the mail – it arrived! Yes, the Stargate Atlantis novel “Mirror, Mirror” by Sabine Bauer is now in my hot hands. JJ Nice cover. The DVD people could take a hint from the book people….

 

And I'm pretty sure all these books can be found at Amazon or most bookstores ...

Should I tag someone with this? Never sure how that works but would be curious to see what other folks are reading :)

Comments

[a-pilgrim-soul.livejournal.com]

You do like your medical books don't you? Me I tend to read very few "factual" books. At the moment I'm part way through two (very different) novels The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch and Where The Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes - I can't say I'm particularly enthralled with either of them. :( I really need to buy myself some more books but I'm financially challenged this month.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

But I do like fiction too, although yeah, I like medical horror novels or horror novels. The trouble with fiction is that the ones i want to read are never at the library, and I hesitate to spend full price for a hardback, although I did break down (using coupons) and got THE SWARM, an excellent science fiction novel which actually was full of science ;)