book report:
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vernacular_life2 books that I've read in the past month that I've neglected to report on:
1) Dance of Death - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Total fluff for me - this is the 4th? book by these 2 authors featuring the same cast of characters - the pretty young Archaeologist, the gruff but soft hearted reporter, the loyal to the end cop, and the eccentric, independently wealthy FBI agent.
As usual, a bit of a suspention of disbelief is required when reading this (ala the kind of forget-about-how-things-really-happen that you employ when you read Davinci Code), yet highly entertaining and a page turner. Great book for the beach or an airplane.
Recommended if you like Dan Brown books.
Grade: B
Grade as 'fluff': A
2) The Baby Catcher (tales ofa modern midwife), by Peggy Vincent
Autobiographial antidotes about being a midwife in the Berkley area in the early 1980's. Lots of tales of homebirths and unmedicated labors, but does talk a lot about when to transfer to hospitals. There's a bit of drama that I didn't expect to have in the book. Don't want to do any spoilers, but there's one family in particular who I wonder how things would have been different if they DID have a hospital birth.
Overall, a good book. Certainly not a "how to" book, or even really pro/con homebirth -- I think that the arguement FOR hospital births, or at least the risks that could happen with homebirths are honestly laid out here.
Recommended if you're interested in homebirths (naturally!), the practices of a midwife, labor/delivery....or just a good nonfiction read.
grade: A
Just started Sharp Objects and totally pulled in by page 2. LOVE a book that hooks me before I can turn the first page. Yum.
(I didn't realize until finding that link on Amazon that the author was an Entertainment Weekly writer who's reviews I've always liked!)
1) Dance of Death - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Total fluff for me - this is the 4th? book by these 2 authors featuring the same cast of characters - the pretty young Archaeologist, the gruff but soft hearted reporter, the loyal to the end cop, and the eccentric, independently wealthy FBI agent.
As usual, a bit of a suspention of disbelief is required when reading this (ala the kind of forget-about-how-things-really-happen that you employ when you read Davinci Code), yet highly entertaining and a page turner. Great book for the beach or an airplane.
Recommended if you like Dan Brown books.
Grade: B
Grade as 'fluff': A
2) The Baby Catcher (tales ofa modern midwife), by Peggy Vincent
Autobiographial antidotes about being a midwife in the Berkley area in the early 1980's. Lots of tales of homebirths and unmedicated labors, but does talk a lot about when to transfer to hospitals. There's a bit of drama that I didn't expect to have in the book. Don't want to do any spoilers, but there's one family in particular who I wonder how things would have been different if they DID have a hospital birth.
Overall, a good book. Certainly not a "how to" book, or even really pro/con homebirth -- I think that the arguement FOR hospital births, or at least the risks that could happen with homebirths are honestly laid out here.
Recommended if you're interested in homebirths (naturally!), the practices of a midwife, labor/delivery....or just a good nonfiction read.
grade: A
Just started Sharp Objects and totally pulled in by page 2. LOVE a book that hooks me before I can turn the first page. Yum.
(I didn't realize until finding that link on Amazon that the author was an Entertainment Weekly writer who's reviews I've always liked!)
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Date: 2007-03-21 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 07:50 pm (UTC)I think you'll really like 'em.