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Kate’s 2¢: “Night Shift: a Novel” by Robin Cook
“Night Shift: a Novel” by Robin Cook
I enjoyed Robin Cook’s books throughout the years, even though they scare the heck out of me. I’ve learned not to read them prior to any hospital visit, much less stay.
This story did not disappoint me and, yes, it sure gave me things to think about. How this kind of thing really could happen!
From the website:
Robin Cook is an American physician and writer of novels about medical issues united with thriller genre. He was born in Queens, New York. Cook was graduated from the Wesleyan University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His post graduate studies were from Harvard University. His books are a fusion of medicine and fantasy.
In his childhood Cook wanted to become an archaeologist and then later on his aspiration turned to medicine. He was a class valedictorian and graduated with Chemistry as his major and gaining a distinction in Government. He was in charge of the Blood/Gas chemistry lab at the Columbian Presbyterian Hospital.
After he was fully trained, Dr. Robin Cook went to the Navy where went to the submarine school and navy diving school. After his service ended in the Navy, he worked in the Ophthalmology department in Harvard. His career as an author started with his novel ‘The Year of the Intern’. This novel was written underwater while he was in the Kamehameha in 1972. In 1977, a second novel followed called ‘Coma’. This went on to become an instant hit and eventually a bestseller. Cook wrote this novel while at job as a senior ophthalmologist at the Kennedy School of Government. Cook has written more than twenty five best sellers till date and has sold over one million books all of which are about medicine and biotechnology related ethical issues. His goal was to enlighten the public of issues such as organ transplantation which he did in his book ‘Coma’. The issue of stem cells and egg donation was dealt in his book ‘Shock’. Bio terrorism and xeno transplantation was looked into in the books ‘Vector’ and ‘Chromosome 6’. His recent books are ‘Critical’ and ‘Foreign Body’. The later is concerned with the recently growing problem of medical terrorism.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Night shift: a novel DB111399
Cook, Robin. Reading time: 10 hours, 10 minutes.
Read by Will Damron.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Medical Fiction
“Colleagues turned spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie’s longtime friend, by all accounts healthy Dr. Sue Passero, dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, which falls squarely under Laurie’s purview as newly appointed chief medical examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the case, he can hardly refuse. With his curiosity sparked by the mystery around Sue’s death, the indefatigable Jack, compelled to resolve the case at hand, sets out to investigate on-site at Manhattan Memorial Hospital, even though it means blatantly defying the Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s rules. What started out as an inquiry into Sue’s tragic passing soon turns into a deadly and dangerous chess game between Jack and the clever and deranged killer, who might just administer another lethal blow if Jack isn’t caref
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Kate’s 2¢: “About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times” by Garland and Catapano
“About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times” by Garland and Catapano
One of the contributors to this anthology was the featured speaker on the Behind Our Eyes, Org telephone conference call on Sunday, April 2, 2023.
From Alice J-M Massa:
In the nine-hour-and-forty-minute book, you will find the recommended essay at the eight-hour-and-forty-three-minute mark; the reading time for the one recommended piece is only approximately eight minutes. After I downloaded the BARD version DB 96492 of the above anthology, I was quickly taken in by the introduction of the book and found many of the essays highly emotional and touching. The collection includes two pieces by Dan, as well as two essays by his wife Ona Gritz. “Space Travel: A Vision” carries an artistic thread of space travel from Dan’s young childhood to his adult life. The essay is expertly crafted with superb organization, poetic descriptions, and relatable tales. I believe Dan’s memoir piece is one of the most well-written pieces in a collection of very well-written essays. Reading this short memoir is certainly worth your time—even if you do not read the other nine hours of the recorded book.
from Daniel Simpson:
Poetry Collections
School for the Blind. Poets Wear Prada, 2014. Available from poetswearprada.com, bookshop.org, and amazon.com.
NLS: DBC12210 and BR21106.
Also available from bookshare.org
Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems (with Ona Gritz). Finishing Line Press, 2017. Available from finishinglinepress.com and amazon.com.
Inside the Invisible. Nine Mile Books, 2022. Available from ninemile.org, bookshop.org, and amazon.com.
Anthology Edited by Daniel Simpson (with Ona Gritz)
More Challenges for the Delusional: Peter Murphy’s Prompts and the Writing They Inspired. Diode Editions, 2018. Available from diodeeditions.com and amazon.com.
Anthologies Including Daniel Simpson’s Work:
Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Jennifer Bartlet, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, editors. Cinquo Puntos Press. 2011. Available on Kindle.
NLS: DB74050 and BR24267.
Learning Ally: KK453.
Also available from Bookshare.org.
Schuylkill Valley Journal, Volume 45, Fall 2017. Available from amazon.com.
Includes an interview with the poet and a generous selection of his poems.
About Us: Essays from The New York Times Disability Series. Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, editors. Liveright, 2019. Available from store.nytimes.com, amazon.com and audible.com.
NLS: DB96492 and BR22839
Also available from bookshare.org.
Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest. Ona Gritz and Taylor Carmen Savath, editors. South Jersey Cultural & History Center at Stockton University, 2021. Available from amazon.com.
** April 2, 2023, Sunday, at 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time
Poet Daniel Simpson will be the keynote speaker for the Behind Our Eyes celebration of National Poetry Month.
BIO OF DAN SIMPSON
Dan Simpson is the winner of the inaugural Propel Poetry Prize for his latest poetry collection, Inside the Invisible, published by Nine Mile Books in November, 2022 and nominated for the . American Academy of Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. In 2017, he and his wife, Ona Gritz, collaborated on two books, as co-authors of Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and as co-editors of More Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of prose, poetry, and writing prompts. School for the Blind, his first collection of poems, came out in 2014. His work has been anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, and many other journals. “Let’s Walk Together,” a composition for bass soloist and choir, based on a text written by Daniel Simpson, received its premiere performance by Voces8 in London in December 2020. Voces8 and four other choirs also performed “A Song Everyone Can Sing, for which he served as lyricist in March, 2019. The recipient of a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he tends a blog, Inside the Invisible, which can be found at insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com.
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SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: Poems by Daniel Simpson—DBC 12210, copyright 2014, reading time of 50 minutes (narrated by the author).
BEAUTY IS A VERB: THE NEW POETRY OF DISABILITY—DB 74050, copyright 2011, reading time of 13 hours and 15 minutes.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times DB96492
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie; Catapano, Peter Reading time: 9 hours, 40 minutes.
Coleen Marlo
Disability
Sixty-one essays originally published as part of the New York Times Disability column. The essays are organized into the topics of justice, belonging, working, navigating, coping, love, family, and joy. Essayists have physical, motor, sensory, and cognitive differences. Commercial audiobook. 2019.
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