Back when I was a newspaper junkie and reading The New York Times and New Yorker every day I read an excerpt from this book in the times and knew I needed it. In fact, I would credit this book with getting me back into biography and back into reading from my hiatuses over the past few years where I barely managed to read 15 books a year.
The book has been one of the quickest reads I've had recently and the book that has most efficiently shakes me to my core.
As everyone I have spent many hours looking for meaning in death and have found no satisfactory answers yet. Dr. Kalanithi offers one.
This book, more than anything, follows Paul's (can I call you that? Feel so intimately close to you now) finding his own answers for these questions, through his journey from resident, to patient, to his own unfortunate and tragic death.
The forward and epilogue add a lot to the book and I would highly recommend reading them especially as they are a reflection on a life lost.
I highly recommend adding this book to your to-read shelf asap. I give it a 10 out of 10.
For those of you who are on goodreads (if you are you should follow me and if you aren't you should sign up and follow me) you will know that this book won book of the year for the memoir and autobiography category. Although I disagreed with many of the awards this year, this one was spot on. I highly recommend you read it and think deeply about it.
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