What I'm Reading (HR) = I highly recommend it/ it stands out. Log started September, 2004. Currently Reading: (this means that I am trying to fool myself into thinking that I actually have time to read... humor me.) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 12.31.7 Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer 12.28.7 The Woman in the Surgeon's Body by Joan Cassell 12.16.7 Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer 7.25.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 12.27.6 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 12.25.6 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (HR) by Tracy Kidder 12.27.5 Ring of Bright Water (HR) by Gavin Maxwell 7.18.5 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HR) by J. K. Rowling 7.13.5 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson 7.8.5 First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin 6.28.5 Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky 6.9.5 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (HR) by Anne Fadiman 5.28.5 Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (HR) by Atul Gawande 5.21.5 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (HR) by Philip Gourevitch Fall 2004 Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss Isaac Newton (HR) by James Gleick Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by James Meldrum 9.19.4 Picnic, Lightning (HR) by Billy Collins (collection of poems) 9.15.4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon 9.8.4 Nine Horses (HR) by Billy Collins (collection of poems) 9.8.4 The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins (collection of poems) 9.6.4 On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency by Emily Transue Summer 2004 When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (HR) by Frank Vertosick