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What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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My kids and I are currently reading Rick Riordan's The Hero of Olympus series. (It's the follow up to the first series, which starred Percy Jackson).  It takes place in the world of Greek and Roman mythology. As a former history teacher, I'm enjoying it along with them.

My "adult" reading - The Gene: An Intimate History. I will probably then re-read The Seven Daughters of Eve.  (I will be taking over a course based on The Gene this year.)  I have been given some books in the past few months - Paving the Way, the First American Women Law Professors,  Dream by Pope Francis, and Women in White Coats.  I may put them aside for some lighter vacation reading.

 

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Carolyn Pointer
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-13-2022 17:13
From: Lee Crowther
Subject: What's on your reading list?

What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Antiquity from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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@Lee Crowther thank you for starting this thread. Loving the book recs. Thank you for sharing this year's list @Stacy Weiner. @Carolyn Pointer, my kids loved Percy Jackson when younger but now they are teenagers/young adults. I just got the "Gene, an intimate history" by Siddharth Mukherjee based on your rec. Also finished reading "Klara and the Sun" by Kazou Ishiguro and "Dutch House" by Ann Patchett.​​​

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Nita Ahuja
Chair of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-14-2022 09:17
From: Carolyn Pointer
Subject: What's on your reading list?

My kids and I are currently reading Rick Riordan's The Hero of Olympus series. (It's the follow up to the first series, which starred Percy Jackson).  It takes place in the world of Greek and Roman mythology. As a former history teacher, I'm enjoying it along with them.

My "adult" reading - The Gene: An Intimate History. I will probably then re-read The Seven Daughters of Eve.  (I will be taking over a course based on The Gene this year.)  I have been given some books in the past few months - Paving the Way, the First American Women Law Professors,  Dream by Pope Francis, and Women in White Coats.  I may put them aside for some lighter vacation reading.

 

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Carolyn Pointer
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Original Message:
Sent: 07-13-2022 17:13
From: Lee Crowther
Subject: What's on your reading list?

What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Antiquity from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Love this topic! AAMCNews publishes a summer reads list. Last year, it ranged from the role of cadavers in medicine to one author's terrifying first year of residency. Stay tuned next week for this year's list, which includes a murder mystery, addressing racism in medicine, and the first U.S. women doctors.

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Stacy Weiner
Senior Staff Writer
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-13-2022 17:13
From: Lee Crowther
Subject: What's on your reading list?

What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Antiquity from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Now this year's summer read list is live. Check out 10 recent books about topics ranging from serious (provider burnout, racism in medicine, the first women docs, for example) to somewhat strange (a monkey-to-monkey head transplant and a medical murder mystery).

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Stacy Weiner
Senior Staff Writer
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-14-2022 10:03
From: Stacy Weiner
Subject: What's on your reading list?

Love this topic! AAMCNews publishes a summer reads list. Last year, it ranged from the role of cadavers in medicine to one author's terrifying first year of residency. Stay tuned next week for this year's list, which includes a murder mystery, addressing racism in medicine, and the first U.S. women doctors.

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Stacy Weiner
Senior Staff Writer
Association of American Medical Colleges

Original Message:
Sent: 07-13-2022 17:13
From: Lee Crowther
Subject: What's on your reading list?

What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Antiquity from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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just finished On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi, but also recommend Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad.   

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Angela Spencer
Health Sciences Reference Librarian
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-13-2022 17:13
From: Lee Crowther
Subject: What's on your reading list?

What are you hoping to read this summer and beyond?

@Nita Ahuja mentioned summer reading lists in @Penny Schnarrs's podcast thread, and I thought it could be fun to make a separate thread for reading lists. My current list isn't really related to academic medicine (unless you count passing references to Gundeshapur or Ibn Sina)-one of my interests is Central Asia, so I'm reading Richard Foltz's Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century and planning to read Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. My next book after that may be Rebecca Wragg Sykes's Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Lee Crowther
Library Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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