For this week’s Sunday Salon (click on the badge at left to be taken to the site to see what it’s all about), as with the last couple of weeks’ Sunday Salon, I plan to continue on Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Robert A. Johnson and Jerry M. Ruhl, Ph. D.
Also for this week’s Sunday Salon, as with recent Sunday Salons, I’m going to continue reading the stories and novels of Sherlock Holmes in The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories. Right now, I’m reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and hope to be able to finish that later today.
On my radar: Last week during a dinner with some friends from our church, two of them, who are in the medical professional, recommended Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, his first novel. They both gushed over how great a book it was and then this morning Beastmomma in her Sunday Salon post mentioned how she was reading it also. I think years ago, I read My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story also by Verghese and was incredibly moved by it. For books written from a medical perspective, I also recommend the work of Dr. Richard Selzer, to whom I was first introduced with Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery.
I’ll leave you with these videos of Verghese reading from his book in an interview I found on YouTube:
I haven’t had a chance to watch them yet, but look forward to watching them this afternoon after Mass and lunch.
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Thanks for letting me know. I have another commitment that night and I do not think I am going to finish the book by then, so unfortunately, I am not able to participate.
I think that you will enjoy Cutting for Stone. In my book group, one person had read his non-fiction and said that the novel was just as good. I hope that you enjoy it!!
Thanks, Beastmomma. I just saw this today: http://thebookladysblog.com/2010/03/22/fountainreads-reminder-cutting-for-stone-331/. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m going to be able to get the book in time, since our library doesn’t have it, and it looks like I’m going to have to buy it. However, it might be something in which you want to participate. I just thought I’d throw it out there for you.
I’ve been contemplating the Verghese novel. Loved his nonfiction. Always worry fiction won’t be as good. I see this pattern a lot: Great nonfiction writer…mediocre fiction. Not sure why.
I don’t think you have to worry. From what I’ve been hearing about this, it’s pretty good. I’m actually looking forward based on his non-fiction myself.