As the end of the semester winds down, I have been reflecting on my freshman year at BU and how quickly it has gone by. This semester I tried to a more exploring of Boston and get to know the city that I had been living in for a few months. Along this exploration I found myself frequently visiting the Boston Public Library and decided to sign up and get a library card of my very own. So over the course of the past few months I have taken a variety of books out of the library for some pleasure reading. Instead of taking a break from studying or doing homework by going on Facebook or Twitter always having a book handy really helps in finding a more productive way to take a study break. Here are a few of the books I read this semester, all must reads if I do say so myself.
From Tatiana De Rosnay, the author of Sarah's Key, The House I Loved was a fantastic book, set in 1860s Paris France, it is about a women who is fighting against the destruction of her home in the molding of Paris into the modern city it is today.
Friends Like Us, by Lauren Fox, is a comical book about two best friends, Willa and Jane, and how their relationship takes a tole when Willa's high school friend falls in love with Jane...
Monday Mornings and Cheating Death, both by Chief Medical Correspondent of CNN, Sanjay Gupta, MD. These two book are fantastic and my favorites. Monday Mornings is a fictional novel but is based off of the idea of Morbid and Mortality meetings in a hospital that help doctors to learn from their mistakes and further their knowledge in medicine. Cheating Death follows a series of real medical miracles and how pioneering doctors and researchers are changing our understanding of death and how patients who were one deemed dead are now considered alive.
So take some time to read this summer and if you are looking for a god book any of the selections above will certainly satisfy as a good beach read.
