Welcome to Litsy!

I love this author. Wow. This is my second of his in a couple months, and I will probably look into his older titles, has anyone read anything published before this one?

I really loved this. It‘s long and slow but beautiful, and Marion and his twin brother Shiva will stay with me.

Exhausted just reading this diary of a young NHS OB-GYN doctor: constant stimulus & decision-making, lack of time, lack of sleep, faint praise, strain on personal relationships. Engaging voice with a dose of snark, heartbreaking medical emergencies & spit-take hilarity. 2017
P 86 “really, the only choice is whether you f*ck over yourself or your patients. The former is annoying, the latter means that people die—so it‘s not really a choice at all.”

How to explain how much I loved this book? The author makes magic with words. His character development is outstanding—I especially loved Marion. His medical background shines through, making the surgical details fascinating. I also learned so much about Ethiopia. If I could give 100 stars, I would.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

A apt title, I really enjoyed the play on words. Cutting For Stone is part of the hypocritic oath. If you cannot handle health/surgery talk this is not for you. Verghese pulls a lot from himself - he is an Ethiopian -American doctor. His MCs are Ethiopian twins born of doctors who become doctors. The background of the Ethiopian revolution. I was a bit nervous about this but it was very readable, the characters are vivid and the pacing is perfect.

"The hospital 's old septic tank was located here, deep underground, and for years it has overflowed before it was taken out of use. USAID concrete, Rockefeller funds, and a Greek contractor named Achilles had built a new one "

Try as I might this will not be the book that doesn't remind me how far America has fallen. To be reminded that we used to help the poorest of the poor across the globe ?

#25in25 we are halfway through the year and I am doing not as great as I could have hoped on the 25 books I have chosen to focus on in 2025.

I feel like July and August are going to be my time to shine on this! A perfect time to read Anne of Green Gables, Three, A Trace of Sun, all those lovely summer books.

I grabbed the audio of Cutting for Stone from my Library so will dive into that this month.

Current count 11/25

Today‘s find in Belgrade: the Serbian edition of “Cutting for Stone.”

#DynamicDs #Doctor

#DynamicDs Day 6: A #Doctor can be a woman, too. Picturebook biography of the first female doctor in the US: Elizabeth Blackwell. Even after Blackwell graduated top of her class, there were angry male #doctor(s) who claimed that they hope she would be the last of her kind. That, of course, is moot and pointless in this day and age. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-bpe