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NYPL #FridayReads: The Laureate 101 Edition June 23, 2017 by Tracy O'NeillJune 23, 2017

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Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We've rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

 

We Read...

Newbury Award-winning children's books and free reads for your commute from the #SubwayLibrary.  Like suspense? Some of the best reads for thrills come from an unexpected source: climate change literature. One of our favorite selfies was taken long before smartphones.  It's a 1976 photograph taken by Cynthia MacAdams. So you want to know about the Poet Laureate. We've got the skinny. Literary horror is thrilling even to readers who don't consider themselves fans of the genre. It doesn't have to be Father's Day for dads to read these books aloud to their kids.  Have you delved into the literary legacy left by Occupy Wall Street yet? Teens have lots of options for free subway reading. Borges had some ideas about what the writer needs to do. Bloomsday just may be the greatest bibliophilic holiday around.

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What did you read?

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The Making of a Surgeon

Submitted by Dr K Parameswaran (not verified) on June 25, 2017 - 7:02am

It was engrossing reading, no doubt! It was a series of head-on collisions with new words! It was a breathtaking, panoramic view of how a person develops bit by bit, day by day, into a technically adept surgeon as well as a humanely responsive human being! The auto biography "The Making of a Surgeon", by William Noel, published by Random House in 1971, is all this and more. One of the most interesting chapters in this 300 page paper back deals with the paramount importance of blood and its circulation in all aspects of one's mental and physical well being. Dr Nolen narrates the interesting episode of how the attentive anesthesiologist can help prevent surgical deaths, just by keeping an eye on the color of the patient's blood! The bright red color of oxygenated blood is the best indicator of the right kind of surgical intervention being made. Read the book; it will needs enlarge your vocabulary and make you conscious of improving bit by bit, day by day.