Category Archives: A&E Book Club
What Emeran’s Reading: Cutting For Stone, the verdict
What a great book! We all know that life is complicated. This story follows the life of Marion Stone and the tortured, yet ultimately resolved, relationships with his family. He goes through life doing what he thinks is expected of … Continue reading
What Emeran’s Reading: The Three Musketeers
I just finished slogging through The Three Musketeers. I unearthed a box of books from the basement last November. We are trying to clean out some space, and the mound of unpacked boxes was destined to be tackled. The amount … Continue reading
Checklist Manifesto
I’ve been on a non-fiction kick lately. The past four books I read were non-fiction and I recently finished The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. Gawande has a long list of credentials, including: general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and … Continue reading
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Out of Africa and the cafe
I recently read the book Out of Africa. I picked it up because it is old and takes place on a coffee plantation in Africa and found the book is quite different than the movie. Isak Denison, the pseudonym for … Continue reading
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A lesson from ancient China
I recently read Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. I have read a few books based in China, some fiction and some non-fiction, but, most have been set during the Cultural Revolution. This book is set in a … Continue reading
Grace
I recently read What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey. It is an in-depth study on grace, what it means and how it is applied. The term grace can be used in several ways, such as an elegant or … Continue reading
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