I really enjoyed this book. It was compelling and well written and insightful and just overall worth every moment.I felt like I learned something about Ethiopian history and surgery. I enjoyed Verghese's descriptions of both the landscape, the political climate, and the operation theatre. I also f...
A truly talented writer sticks in my mind through the use of thought provoking metaphors and extensive vocabulary detailed in their book. Verghese commands these talents at will, as if drawing them out carefully from a surgical patient spellbound under the florescent tube lighting of theater room 3...
Not a book that would have normally piqued my interest but it was given to me as a gift; and we should never turn down gifts, especially when they are filled with words: 667 pages of them! First, the negatives: In between the covers, there is a lot of blood, sweat, filth, and bodily excretions. Th...
Epic read. I spent some time in Addis Ababa, so I loved being able to picture some of the stuff, like the food and different landmarks. Really am amazing book, as most of the world already has discovered. I am probably one of the last people to get around to reading it. So worth it though...
O-M-G this book was amazing! It is told from the perspective of fifty year old Marion Stone almost like a memoir. It's basically a family saga where Marion Stone dug up his mother's history, his adoptive parents history, his own life and finally his father's history and wove it all into a beautifu...
I don't think I can do justice to this book right now. It's been a full 24 hours since I've finished this but I still can't wrap my head around the emotion that was ripped out of me during my time with this book. I'll have to come back to this review when I'm not so raw, as it may be easier for me...
Buddy read with Am-Haye-ZING!Dedication: For George and Mariam Verghese: Scribere jussit amorAnd because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as well.The child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in the very next momentTo find in the left oneIts consolation.Rabindranat...
Some books have a hypnotic effect and they leave you in a state of haziness when you finish them. Cutting for Stone has been such a book for me.It is a beautiful novel because it succeeds in creating endearing personalities. Apart from this, there is very little I can add to the very many reviews i...
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