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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2011-04-13 08:15 pm
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booklogging is an excellent way to avoid study

New book review: Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate.

The book I'm now lugging around hospital and reading during breaks is Brave New World, and I'm not very far in but I already have a collection of sentences around which I want to scribble sparkly hearts. I'm trying to read all of those seminal scifi books that I have been vaguely meaning to read for years, and although the Orange Library has so far been very helpful (epic amounts of Le Guin!) they don't have Farenheit 451 :(

Med school news: bluh. Med school is med school. Most of us have the final-year equivalent of senioritis, which is equal parts apathetic burnout and sheer panic that we're going to be expected to be real doctors in a rapidly shrinking amount of time.

Today there was a paediatric surgery list and I got to see what a testicle looks like. (A: white and squidgy.) Medicine makes you blase about almost everything, but there are still those rare moments when you're pressing down on the groin of a sedated child and someone is standing by your shoulder crying "Milk! MILK the testis into the scrotum!" and you think, my profession is a bit weird.
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[identity profile] ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Your profession is a bit weird, yes.

[identity profile] sour-idealist.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been wondering about Blood and Chocolate for a while. Guess I'll skip it. I'll be interested to see what you think of Brave New World, too; I was unfairly prejudiced against it.

(And re: your second post, urrgh, my sympathies.)
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfairly prejudiced how?

[identity profile] sour-idealist.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It was assigned by a (history) teacher I passionately disliked, and I went into it resentful by association, which I think made it a lot easier to get frustrated with the hopelessness of it.