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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
Read January 2021 Recommended for nerds and those who love names ★ ★ ★ ★ I love words and have noted plenty of irony in suburban addresses more than once (where are the oaks on Oak … Continue reading
Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor, by Peter Watts
Read March 2020 Recommended for people who want a little prod ★ ★ ★ I was interested in this because I found Watts to be one of the most fascinating sci-fi writers I’ve read, with wide-ranging concepts and … Continue reading
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Read June 2019 Recommended for everyone, particularly young people, Floridians, coasties and Trumpsters ★ ★ ★ ★ For too long the national climate debate has centered on “is it real?” and “is it man-made?” How this occurred … Continue reading
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Read March 2019 Recommended for health care providers, patients ★ ★ ★ ★ I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything that came so close to summing up my years in health care. That said, there’s one … Continue reading
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Read December 2018 Recommended for people who like biology ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For my entire hospital career I have worked in oncology, where I have been part of teams taking care of people with … Continue reading
Bellevue by David Oshinsky
Read September 2017 Recommended for fans of medicine, hospitals, history ★ ★ ★ ★ This book was 100% written by a historian, not a biographist, so temper expectations accordingly. Bellevue is a famous–some might say infamous–hospital in New York City, … Continue reading
Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Read June 2017 Recommended for people who want to understand more about health and race ★ ★ ★ 1/2 If there is one thing that can pull me out of my traditional genres, it’s a meditation on modern medicine. … Continue reading
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Read April 2017 Recommended for Americans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is no surprise that “Evicted” was the University Wisconsin-Madison’s Go Big Red book read for 2016, a book chosen by the chancellor and worked into campus-wide discussions and … Continue reading
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss. Read it and weep.
Read June 2014 Recommended for people who eat ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “We rarely get in the situation where our body and brain are depleted of nutrients and are actually in need of replenishment. Rather, he … Continue reading
Eats Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. Don’t forget ‘laughs.’
Read April 2014 Recommended for fans of writing, communicating ★ ★ ★ ★ I confess: I frequently find myself self-conscious about my use of punctuation. A few years back, I even bought a copy of Strunk and White’s The Elements of … Continue reading
