A Watershed Year

by Susan Schoenberger

An interesting story of academia and adoption was ruined for me by the inclusion of emails sent posthumously by a beloved friend of the heroine. Email from the dead made me queasy. It seemed as it the dead guy was reaching out in a way that would keep his friend from moving on. However several members of my book club liked it. I told them not to email me after they were dead. Otherwise, the book tells a pretty good story.

Complications by Atul Gawande

Gawande writes in the first person about his experience as a surgeon. In doing so he tells lots of tales demonstrating the complexities and limitations of the practice of medicine. Good book.