Mailbox Mondays: November 26, 2012
Welcome to this week’s Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by Kathy at Bermuda Onion. Books I received last week Random House India again very kindly sent over a nice set of books. The...
View ArticleTeaser Tuesdays – Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese With the colon swollen to Hindenburg proportions it would be all too easy to nick the bowel and spill feces into the abdominal cavity. He made a middle incision,...
View ArticleTeaser Tuesdays – Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese I just finished this book during the weekend, and it’s such a moving and touching read. I feel bad now that I got so impatient over the medical terminology and...
View ArticleCutting for Stone – A Book Review
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are...
View ArticleMeme: Six in Six
I saw this meme over at The Bookworm Chronicles and decided this was the perfect way to showcase the books I read this year and loved or disappointed with. In this meme, I catalog books in chunks of...
View ArticleFirst Reading Challenge of the Year – Africa Reading Challenge
Last year, I narrowed my reading focus on Japan . I enjoyed the books I read a lot, but I am thinking I want to focus on another geographic location as my theme for 2014. I just started reading We Need...
View ArticleTen Authors I’ve Only Read One Book Of and Need to Read More
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten authors that I’ve only read one book from but need to read more. It happens to me all the time, I read a book by an author,...
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