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“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

October 27, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was given this book as a birthday present about six years ago by my friend Lindsay and it has been languishing on my shelves ever since. Enter 2020, the Read Harder Challenge, and whatever the fuck else has been going on this year that means I’m reading more from my own shelves than anywhere else. And I’m glad I finally got around to it! This is an over 600 page literary fiction book, but it reads in the way I like my literary fiction […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Abraham Verghese, addis ababa, conjoined twins, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, medical, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, twins

narfna's CBR12 Review No:152 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Abraham Verghese, addis ababa, conjoined twins, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, medical, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, twins ·
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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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