Oliver Sacks, probably best known for his work that would inspire the movie Awakenings,has devoted his life to neurology and those whose brains revolt against them. In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sacks shares some of his more memorable cases. “Neurology’s favourite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).” The title […]
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
Biggest regret of my life? Getting the audiobook version of American Gods. I really wanted to read American Gods because I’ve heard a million good things and the upcoming miniseries looks interesting, however 600+ pages seemed daunting so I tracked down an audio copy from my local library. Unfortunately, my commute never seemed long enough (for once) and it took me nearly three weeks to get through the CDs since my car is my only CD player. Needless to say, I probably would have blown through this […]
“Nietsche is Less Famous than Khloe Kardashian”
The one thing you can’t Google is what you ought to be looking up. William Poundstone is to modern knowledge as Aziz Ansari is to modern romance. That’s the best way I can describe this book. Head in the Cloud is an interesting look at how knowledge correlates with other aspects of the modern person’s life; it’s full of charts and graphs, it’s highly quotable and the author has a sense of humor. Scientists believe that early humans hunted dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus and […]
My CBR8 YA Book Club Review
I didn’t read a lot of YA books when I was, in fact, a young adult. My AP English classes in high school and the Literature classes I took in college focused on the “Classics” and more adult material because we were supposed to be the smart kids. I didn’t read as much in my free time because I always had something to be reading for one class or the other, and when I did read for fun it was a lot of “chick lit” […]
Truly Madly Wonderful
The latter half of July is an absolute insane time for me at work, 10-12 hour days usually without a lunch break, and by the time I get home I’m too bleary eyed to read. Luckily, work began to let up right around the time Liane Moriarty released her latest novel. I read all of Moriarty’s novels last year so this was the first time I had to wait for the author to write something new and the year wait was quite painful (it’s probably a […]
Biggest thing I learned? Kitty Hawk was not in Ohio
Okay… am I alone in not realizing that Kitty Hawk was in North Carolina? I guess I took the whole “two brothers from Ohio” thing to mean they achieved all their triumphs in Ohio which is supremely not the case. So most of us know the story of the Wright Brothers (even if we don’t all know the geography) and their breakthrough discoveries that led to modern airplanes. David McCullough delivers a well researched account of the boys’ journey to aviation glory without being too […]
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