Title: When Breath Becomes Air Author: Paul Kalanithi Publisher: Bodley Head Publication Date: Feb 2016 Synopsis: What makes a virtuous and meaningful life? Paul Kalanithi believed that the answer lay in medicine’s most demanding specialization, neurosurgery. Here are patients at their life’s most critical moment. Here he worked in the most critical place for human identity, the brain. What is [...]
Month: January 2017
My To Read List of 2017
I know we're nearing the end of January but I just had to write a post on my To Read list for 2017 because I'm genuinely looking forward to my line up. Last year I had a "terrible" habit of buying books and just putting them on my shelf, not to be picked up again [...]
The Ultimate Book Review of 2016
Well 2016 is now over so, firstly, Happy New Year to you all! I thought it would be good to do an overall review of the books I read in 2016, listing them in different categories with an overall 2016 winner at then end. I read a total of 50 books in 2016; some where [...]