Chopping Rocks

I wanted to get back into a bit of book sharing Bloggins. Most of the books that I read are recommendations from other people or from Amazons “people who bought this book also bought...” so I thought it would be a great to share a bit about my thoughts to maybe entice you to pick up (or not pick up) something you normally wouldn’t.

I just finished Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

Since Amazon does such a better job at it, they write:

"Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics — their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him — nearly destroying him — Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him."

This was recommended by one of my nurses (read: colleagues). She claimed “it was the best book” she read “all year”.

Ok…I’ll bite and give it a shot.
 

At first I was a bit unsure but its amazing how caught up in the story I got. I tend to get a bit board with family drama type novels, but this one was so well written, with such engaging characters that it had me right up to end. That being said, I’m pretty sure that the medical tone of the book helped a bit in keeping my engaged too.

Overall, I recommend it as a good summer read, worth picking up. If family dramas are your thing, I think that you will love it. And if you have been reading heavy books, it’s a nice change of pace.

Cheers!