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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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More like cutting my heart….

January 6, 2018 by kella 1 Comment

Oh hello there.  Well CBR9 was a bit of a bust for me, in that life got crazy and I read exactly one book in Nov/Dec.  ugh.  But let’s give it a go again! I’m starting off this year with a book club pick, Cutting For Stone…and yeah, it was great. After an unfortunate reading hiatus, and a crazy holiday, this was a great book to get lost in. Marion & Shiva are identical twins born to a nun in Ethiopia at the missionary hospital […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History Tagged With: Abraham Varghese, Africa, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, family, medicine

kella's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History · Tags: Abraham Varghese, Africa, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, family, medicine ·
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