Sunday, May 31, 2015

Books read in May 2015

New:

1. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 
3. This is Improbable Too by Marc Abrahams
4. The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
5. The Myth of Alzheimer's by Peter J. White house with Daniel George 
6. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman 
7. Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell version)

Reread:

1. Naked in Death
2. Glory in Death 

2 comments:

laura k said...

How did you like Spirit Catches You?

Also, what is the Myth of Alzheimer's about?

impudent strumpet said...

What was most interesting to me about Spirit Catches You was the impact of illiteracy. Without much actual reflection, I always thought of illiterate people as isolated incidents. It never occurred to me that you could have a whole household of illiterate adults, or a whole community with mass adult illiteracy.

The Myth of Alzheimer's is going to be getting its own review once I get around to writing it up. It seems to be trying to make people with Alzheimer's feel less pessimistic, but there are some things that I find problematic and unhelpful.