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August 19, 2018Blog, Book Review, memoir

Book Review: Beauty in the Broken Places

This week I read Beauty in the Broken Places by Allison Pataki. It is the story of how Pataki’s husband Dave suffers a stroke in mid-air as they are flying to Hawaii during their “babymoon” when she was five months pregnant. Not that anyone ever expects a stroke, but he is only 30 and healthy,…

June 16, 2018Blog, Book Review

Book Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

As I read The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska, I was looking forward to a medical memoir with the promise of something more. It is the story of a brain scientist who finds out she has multiple tumors that have spread to her brain from a previous melanoma diagnosis. She learns…