While we’re talking about books about doctors, here’s another good one for you: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
Madame Bovary is the story of Emma Bovary and her corruption and dissipation as she attempts to pursue an ideal of romantic love inspired by pop culture, and of her husband Charles who cannot be deterred in his love [...]
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Book Review: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Posted in Book Reviews on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Posted in Book Reviews on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who have the yearning to step into the time machine and go back to see what life, and specifically the medical profession, was like in the Midwest back in the early 1900s, let me recommend for your reading pleasure Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith.
Arrowsmith is the story of a young doctor by the [...]
Recommendation: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass
Posted in Book Reviews on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who are interested in JFK might wish to check out this brief review by Dennis Hamm, a cousin who is a professor at Creighton University, of James Douglass’s new book JFK and the Unspeakable.
This is not just your run-of-the-mill JFK conspiracy book. Instead, Douglass takes an entirely different tack by suggesting that the tragic events [...]
Book Review: The Organic God by Margaret Feinberg
Posted in Book Reviews on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you out there who loved The Shack will probably find this book by Margaret Feinberg to be helpful in determining where to go next in your relationship with God. In this book, Margaret Feinberg asks us to imagine what it would be like to have a relationship with God that is true and [...]
Book Review: The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy
Posted in Book Reviews on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Walker Percy was a Louisiana author whose career spanned over three decades and whose interests included philosophy and language. He is best known for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer.
The Message in the Bottle is a collection of essays spanning the full length of Walker Percy’s writing career. They all hang together around the question of [...]
Book Review: The Shack by William P. Young
Posted in Book Reviews on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
UPDATE: Here is an interview of The Shack’s author William P. Young on the Steve Brown Etc. podcast.
UPDATE: Ben Witherington has written a review of The Shack. Witherington gets that The Shack is a work of fiction and not a personal confession of faith or doctrinal statement, yet recognizes that there are some parts of [...]
Book Review: Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Posted in Book Reviews on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant who sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and who can perform unbelievable feats of calculation in his head. In 2004 he became something of a celebrity in England when he memorized and recited the first 22,000 digits of pi, setting a new world record. This book is a [...]
Book Review: Francis S. Collins, The Language of God
Posted in Book Reviews on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With my school and work schedule being what it is, I have not had a lot of time for non-school-related reading lately. But I was able to find time to devote to this book by one of the foremost scientific minds of our day.
This book is a must-read for anyone with any interest in the [...]
Book Review: Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart
Posted in Book Reviews on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve not had time to do much reading of anything not related to school over the past year or so, yet somehow I still managed to squeeze in the time to read this little book by noted Catholic teacher and writer Henri Nouwen.
This book is written primarily to priests and lay ministers who serve in [...]
Book Review: Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio
Posted in Book Reviews on April 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Phi (pronounced fee) is perhaps the most astonishing and fascinating number in the world. This number (whose value is 1.6180339887…) was first defined by Euclid over two thousand years ago. It is the ratio which results from dividing a line segment in such a way that the two resulting segments are in the same proportion [...]
