Samuel Shem’s book was one of the first “medical novels” i read nearly four years ago when i decided i wanted to go back to school. i had heard it was a good book to read if you wanted to be talked out of a career in medicine… definitely true, but it didn’t work.

i almost never re-read novels, but figured since it had been a few years and i liked it so much the first time around, this one deserved a little more face time. it’s just as sexually explicit and depressing as i remember. :)

i recently gave it to jonathan (my boyfriend, sans pseudonym) to read. a few years ago, he gave me a great novel called “The Cheese Monkeys” by Chip Kidd on art school and graphic design. it was a very entertaining read and actually helped me to understand his profession and academic history a little bit. i hoped “House of God” would do the same for him.

after reading it he said something along the lines of: “i’m Berry and you’re Roy. this is going to be tough, isn’t it?”

oh, and the other book on my beside table is “Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul” by John and Stasi Eldredge that my grandma sent to me recently. it’s a bit churchy, but the fact that it’s from my grandma (i RARELY get books from my family) gives me some sort of guilty impression that i have to read it.

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