false 12 74 74 true 5820420 read 0 true 1563913 currently-reading 0 true 1563912 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77764388 The Book of Illumination: A Novel from the Ghost Files (Paperback) by Mary Ann Winkowski
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77050359 Jennifer's review of Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

i was never able to finish this boo. bored to tears. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76931026 Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2) by Naomi Novik
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76200939 to: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover) by Mary Ann Shaffer
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75304076 to: His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) by Naomi Novik
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72694182 Onthecusp's review of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig

You seem to be marking my high school reading list as your to-reads. First Native Son and now this. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72011959 to: Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, Books 1-3) by Octavia E. Butler
I forgot how good Octavia Butler is for amazing science fiction and amazingly human stories... even when the humans turn out to be part alien. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71481720 to: Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel (Hardcover) by Marie Phillips
So, this book took me exactly one plane flight to read. It made me laugh. I love the stories of Greek gods, and it was fun to have them re-imagined to London. Great beach book page turner. Also, where did I get this book from? I don't know. Some fairy left it on my book shelf. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71481681 to: Exodus (Mass Market Paperback) by Leon Uris
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62131935 to: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover) by Atul Gawande
I really enjoyed Gawande's other book "Complications", which was sent to me in a very random delivery of English books while I was living in Switzerland. Seriously, read a book a day there folks!

This book was also very readable. Its non-fiction, but I would still call it a page-turning, quick read. Each chapter focused on some way surgeons have improved their performance (with the exception of a kind of out of place section on the ethics of doctors who support executions in the penal system). Each case study should be a must read for people in my job as it stresses fundamental priciples of vigilence, paying attention to trends, and, most of all "doing the right thing". Amazing the parallels between being a surgeon and any profession that has to do critical work. A class I have to take at work is "Spaceflight Resource Managament", which is similar to "Crew Resource Management" taught to pilots to learn how to use all their human and technical resources in the cockpit. I have heard this class is also taught to surgeons, and I can see why, a lot of the lessons learned in this book are definitely applicable.. ]]>