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Meghan O’Rourke — The Invisible Kingdom (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 25, 2022 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

First, Meghan O’Rourke bares her soul about chronic illness in her 2022 book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. And second, she analyzes how US medical care fails patients with difficult to diagnose chronic illnesses. This is two parts...

Rebecca Whitehead Munn — All of Us Warriors (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 7, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Cancer touched the life of Rebecca Whitehead Munn at an early age. Together with a wide circle of cancer patients and family members, she created All of Us Warriors: Cancer Stories of Survival and Loss. As often happens with cancer and other illnesses, this group of...

Nicole Bell — What Lurks in the Woods (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 12, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Nicole Bell tells her story of a thriving marriage unexpectedly disrupted in What Lurks in the Woods: Struggle and Hope in the Midst of Chronic Illness. Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. Bell and her husband have two young kids. She lands a dream job, they...

Renée Nicholson — Fierce and Delicate (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 19, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Renée Nicholson writes about two different parts of her life in Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness. Initially, she’s the young dancer making sense of competition, instructor corrections, and visions of the future. As the essays progress, Nicholson...

Ruther Coker Burks —All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 23, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Ruth Coker Burks writes about her experiences caring for HIV/AIDS patients in All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South. She wasn’t a nurse or other health care provider. She was just a young woman with a big heart and buckets...

Book Review: Dopesick by Beth Macy

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 6, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

​Beth Macy tells hard truths in her 2018 book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. To me, it’s about the way capitalism allows one group of people to harm another, all in pursuit of the almighty dollar and in the guise of treating a...

Book Review: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 10, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Christina Baker Kline opens the doors and invites us into the farmhouse in Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting, Christina’s World. This fictional work offers readers a chance to understand the world of the Maine residents he painted. It’s not about Wyeth very much,...

Book Review: Shifting Into High Gear by Kyle Bryant

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 4, 2019 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Kyle Bryant is a man on a mission. He’s living with a rare disease called Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA). Diagnosed at age 17, it causes him to be extremely unsteady on his feet. FA isn’t just about mobility. It causes vision and hearing loss, as well as shortening the...

Book Review: Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 19, 2019 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Daughter of Moloka’i is the sequel to Moloka’i by Alan Brennert. And, unlike the first book, very little of it takes place on Moloka’i. I can’t discuss the plot without revealing at least one spoiler from the first book. So if you haven’t read Moloka’i, I’d suggest...

Book Review: Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 8, 2019 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Moloka’i is both beautiful and bittersweet. Alan Brennert shows us the human side of institutional health care. In the late 19th century, Hawaii was still a sovereign country. But the haole (non-Hawaiians) were making their way there. And bringing their diseases, most...

Book Review: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 6, 2018 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Abby Norman tells her often harrowing story with grace in Ask Me About My Uterus. She’s had to make her way through life in pain, and mostly alone. I’m in awe of her courage and fortitude! Norman spent her childhood with an absent father, and a functionally absent...

Book Review: Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 31, 2018 | RELAX: Memoir

Before my ebook hit 25%, Joe Biden’s family stories in Promise Me, Dad had me crying. There’s plenty of other content in this heartfelt memoir, but the focus is on Beau Biden’s fight with cancer. Beau is Joe Biden’s oldest son, technically Joe III. His life story is...

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