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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Visit from the Goon Squad
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Egan, Jennifer
Wendy Morris
, September 21, 2010
This book is like a verbal Venn Diagram novel of interwoven stories told in an imaginative, moving, and inventive (one very touching narrative is told in the form of a schoolgirl's Powerpoint presentation) style. They travel in place and time ("The Goon" is time, the Goon Squad, time stealers ) and we are given intimate, heartfelt little movies, shot from different perspectives in the past and future, of the lives of a group of colorful, idiosyncratic characters connected, either by friendship, love, work, or happenstance. Time, the passing of time, time lost, moments remembered and captured forever, is always whirring away behind the scenes or at the forefront. It is beautifully written, the metaphors and descriptions are vivid and humorous, without being show-offy.
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Thoreau & The Art Of Life
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Henry David Thoreau
Wendy Morris
, June 05, 2010
What first drew me to this book were the luminous, expressive watercolors by Roderick MacIver. The artist, who has been reading Thoreau for over 20 years, chose his favorite short excerpts from Thoreau's journals, organized by theme. They are the passages that inspired MacIver's life and his art, making it a very personal book. He believes that Thoreau "challenges us and asks us to live our own truths with joy and discipline." There are over 90 vivid paintings that reflect his own deep affinity with nature, where he finds both wildness and serenity. These journal writings of Thoreau present his raw, unedited and sometimes contradictory feelings and thoughts about his deep beliefs about what give value to life. We come to understand his belief that there must be contemplation, observation and attentiveness to nature. And that then "we must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark . . ." to find our own paths to the fullness of life. I was given a fresh path to Thoreau with this book.
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Every Patient Tells A Story Medical Mysteries & the Art of Diagnosis
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Lisa Sanders
Wendy Morris
, March 26, 2010
Lisa Sanders, an internist on the faculty of Yale, writer of the column "Diagnosis" for the NY Times Magazine, and a technical adviser for the TV program "House" writes in a very personal, wise and heartfelt way about the art of diagnosis. The book reads like a suspenseful medical detective story. Through the use of stories of individual medical mysteries she takes on the bigger picture of medicine, such as how the physical examination can reveal so much, yet is not emphasized at med schools and often forgone in lieu of the technological tests. She also writes about the art of listening, and not jumping to conclusions, or pursuing those conclusions too long and looking with "fresh eyes." She also discusses the ramifications of lack of good communication between doctors. It is a revealing look at the art of diagnosis and how modern medicine can improve.
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Every Patient Tells A Story Medical Mysteries & the Art of Diagnosis
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Lisa Sanders
Wendy Morris
, March 26, 2010
Lisa Sanders, an internist on the faculty of Yale, writer of the column "Diagnosis" for the NY Times Magazine, and a technical adviser for the TV program "House" writes in a very personal, wise and heartfelt way about the art of diagnosis. The book reads like a suspenseful medical detective story. Through the use of stories of individual medical mysteries she takes on the bigger picture of medicine, such as how the physical examination can reveal so much, yet is not emphasized at med schools and often forgone in lieu of the technological tests. She also writes about the art of listening, and not jumping to conclusions, or pursuing those conclusions too long and looking with "fresh eyes" and the lack of good communication between doctors. It is a revealing look at the art of diagnosis and how modern medicine can improve.
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