Alc Le Alc Le Alc itibaren Plavs'ke, Khersons'ka oblast, Ukrayna
Bilim Felsefesinin Daniel Dennett'den daha büyük bir savunucusu yoktur.
I have to admit I liked this book more than I expected...easy read, kept my interest, enjoyed the unexpected twists and turns... Although I couldn't relate to the main character in any but a superficial way, I did enjoy the writing style of the author and would like to read the sequel. Especially enjoyed the author's notes about how the characters had no similarity to her or her family.
I read this book after meeting Sophie Kinsella at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. It was amusing, don't get me wrong, but the plot was forced after the reveal. The ending was mediocre and rather ruined the whole tone of the book, but reinforced the moral of letting go of the small stuff to realize the importance of what matters.
funny, I was struck by how unlike Stephanie Plum is from Kinsey Milhone.
the first book that made me cry.
I picked this up because I didn't want to pay the price for the new hardback Atul Gawande book. I don't get headaches, nor do I know anyone who does (or at least admits it to me) so I figured it would be good to try and see the affliction from a sufferer's perspective. I'm sure I will have a patient suffering migraine or cluster headaches eventually. This woman is a hilarious wit...but I think this book would have been better off with 150 fewer pages. The last 100 were a bear to get through. But I've finally done it, thank God I can move on to other things! Overall it's a well-research informative book with some entertaining humor to help move this serious subject along, but the condescending ending basically undid all the goodwill I'd built up for the author over the course of 400 pages. She basically condescends everyone involved in the medical profession except for a single internist she had a connection with, and advised ridiculous remedies like "insurance companies, pay for needed medications. be reasonable" and "neurologists, don't just blindly hand out drugs" and "big pharma, spend more money to find a cure for chronic daily headache". I understand her frustration and the source of her anger...but this oversimplification of a world whose workings she obviously has no intellectual command over left a bitter taste in my mouth. My visceral response was Paula Kamen, don't mouth off on things you don't understand.