She wants to get into the school before she has to worry about that. I would page through as I waited for people to get in the car. By mad chance I read three quarters of it in a hospital as I helped my mother take my grandfather to an appointment. You WILL kill someone eventually. That explains a lot. I too want to have a Radio Four Book of the Week. I like to think I have a bit of an understanding of the massive task my sis has taken on her tiny shoulders. Taisia Crudu. Written as a diary, this novel presents what means to be a Junior Doctor.
The author shows us what is behind the curtains in the Doctors life. Sometimes, in difficult situations, we blame them for giving not enough attention or being unprofessional.
But, we forget that they are also human, like us. This is the main message that the author is trying to convey: the doctors are humans.
They have as well fears, hopes and sentiments. They want to help and they want to save patients. They are afraid of not succeeding in giving help and in providing the right treatment. They care about your life.
They are touched as well from what happens around them. The beginning seemed a bit boring for me, but then I was enjoying reading. Beautiful, wonderful, funny and sad. I love reading about the inner workings of the NHS, and this book was no exception.
It gives me an insight into the job I hope to do in the future. Georgina Wyatt. Absolutely brilliant, that may sound bizarre to say that about a book based in a hospital but as someone who is in hospital alot due to chronic pain it's nice to read about the people behind the doctors uniform. They are so busy rushing around sometimes as a patient you barely learn your doctors name. This was insightful and I hope to see more of these books around. The blood sweat and tea series was brilliant and I'd hoped this would be of the same standard even though it was by a different author as that was part of what influenced me to try this.
Although I'm surprised max and Ruby didn't become a couple. For example you can use Google AdSense to place banner ads on your blog, and then get paid for each impression of the banner, meaning every time someone visits your blog, you get paid a small amount of money.
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To get to that many page views, it takes a lot of content. It matters less whether a post is accurately researched or has a positive spirit, than whether it gets people to click, and it shows. A very common practice is to start with an attractive headline, which is then filled with useless content, mainly to make sure it gets clicks, without worrying about how readers will actually get value from the content. This is a problem, because it turns innocent victims into targets.
For example, big blogs like Gawker covered the story of Wikileaks and Julian Assange in a very positive light — until the first suspicions arose.
As soon as he was falsely accused of being a sex offender, Gawker tore him apart in its posts, without ever justifying or correcting them later — thus massively damaging his public image in an irreparable way. I do spot the problem though, although this has changed a bit in recent years, since ads have become a very unattractive source of income for blogs. Most smart bloggers now focus on building an email list, and then creating products for their subscribers, as the amounts of traffic needed are too ridiculous to ever justify the effort of potentially never getting there.
Blogs still have a lot of power in the public eye though, and you should know that with lots of power, there comes lots of responsibility. Very refreshing read, good summary, and a thrilling book. Read full summary on Blinkist. Get the book on Amazon. For me though, I am drawn to idiosyncratic characters, not middle-class couples thinking about sleeping with their neighbor.
Maybe that's why my favorites in this collection were "Learn a Trade" about a failed hobby-artist's attempt to influence his son's budding talent or "The Wallet" about an older man's reluctance to face the aging process. And then there's the haunting "Poker night," a real treasure told in more simple language about a man faced with telling his wife and friends that he's been diagnosed with cancer.
Here, he realizes: It's in my character to feel worse about folding a winner than betting a loser; it seems less of a sin against God or Nature or whatever.
I love that insight, how it uses the poker game to reflect his inner struggle to not go down without a fight. Brilliant stuff. Again, there are many moments of great writing, in particular, great imagery, in this collection Fulham awoke with a soreness in his stomach, a chafing hairball of vague anxiety I often found myself bowing to his ability to construe sentences so deftly; one is never bored bouncing along to Updike's rhythms.
But in the end, I wanted more than paranoid New England suburbia. Maybe I'll just always enjoy his novels more, where even if "couples" are the subject, they are given more room to maneuver into trouble and more time to redeem themselves.
View 1 comment. Nov 02, Timothy Knutson rated it it was ok. I struggled to finish this. Maybe you have to be a middle aged divorcee to understand and appreciate this book, but I didn't get it. The whole thing just seemed like it was pounding "never get married, because someone will cheat and be awful and you will be miserable" into my head with every page.
And then questioning why their daughters, already to the ancient age of mid-twenties, aren't getting married while reviewing all of their parents awful separations. I can't tell if that was supposed to I struggled to finish this. I can't tell if that was supposed to be satire? Nothing else in the book was humorous at all, so I genuinely can't tell if he was trying to be funny there. Maybe I'll read this again in my fifties and really enjoy it. But this was a very poor start to John Updike, who I've heard people rave about.
This set gets off to a good start with the title short story, "Trust Me. And that is the central problem with this collection as for me it was downhill from there. And at one point, in "Leaf Season", the third story from the last, Updike gives us 2 This set gets off to a good start with the title short story, "Trust Me.
And at one point, in "Leaf Season", the third story from the last, Updike gives us 26 characters or was it 23 and 3 dogs? But I had a hard time with the last two stories as the author just simply lost my attention.
I recommend highly the first four stories, at least, if you want a taste of the best of this author's work. And, yes, I read these 22 stories over a period of 21 days, two the first day and then one a day thereafter, as from the first two stories my expectation for the rest shot through the roof, but I wasn't rewarded as expected.
Easy to do so, as these 22 are all pretty short stories ranging from three to 21 pages. Updike writes a ton; however, he is absolutely brilliant at capturing a character in a short amount of time or conveying a theme in the most mundane of settings and everyday life. His characters are not particularly likeable, but he sure reveals them masterfully. Mar 27, Myles rated it it was amazing Shelves: short-stories , favorites. These are some of Updike's best stories and at least two of my all-time favorites.
He's gotten older now and his ability to capture the passage of time is remarkable, like Proust but with fewer pages. He'd like that comparison and the alliteration, too, unfortunately.
He's as sex crazed as ever, though in these stories, the physical acts take on a geriatric flair. I find it interesting. The details of later life, of aged bodies. Thanks for going there, John. It almost helps forgive your insuff These are some of Updike's best stories and at least two of my all-time favorites.
It almost helps forgive your insufferable WASPyness, the misogyny that underlies every female character you ever wrote. If you don't feel like an extended stay in the leafy, money laden exurbs of Boston and New York, at least look at "The Other" and "More Stately Mansions. Jan 29, Justin rated it really liked it.
In this collection of short stories loosely centered around a common theme of trust, Updike once again does a wonderful job of portraying imperfect relationships and human emotions. While he doesn't stray too far from his familiar milieu of adulterous, upper-crust New Englanders, he tells their stories in a way that makes you feel like you too are among them, sipping drinks and coveting your friends' wife in between bouts of tennis and trips to the vacation home.
There wasn't a single story out In this collection of short stories loosely centered around a common theme of trust, Updike once again does a wonderful job of portraying imperfect relationships and human emotions.
With his full and vivid imagination, John Updike once again seduced me into his breathing suburban worlds. Each of the stories tackle such meaningful social constructs particularly in the arena of adult relationships , in that special surreally penetrating way, that only Updike's words can lift the curtain on. As a collection the stories complemented each other so well and really gave the book a sense of solidity.
Thoughts: Trust Me: How trust in and of itself is selfish. You can't give someone yo With his full and vivid imagination, John Updike once again seduced me into his breathing suburban worlds. You can't give someone your experience of something.
Pure experience can not be shared or captured no matter the level of trust. Trust as a commodity. Killing: Experience comes through contact. Death is the absence of motion. Places familiar to others unknown to us. All the grocery stores I'll never enter. Mundanity of death. Forgotten fun. Inability to let go. Recapturing the past. Ascent of age is the descent of childhood. The City: Loneliness as a path to discovery. The beauty of places we will never call home and all the life there.
How loneliness is beyond our control: Appendicitis. How fears and insecurities are transferred from generation to generation. Teamwork and trust facilitate growth and motion and how they destroy insecurities. Mistakes aren't made they just happen. Deaths of Distant Friends: Thought this was awful until the last paragraph. All will be forgotten in time and therefore forgiven. Pygmalion: If there's one thing I dislike about Updike it's the names of his characters.
Didn't like this story at all. So was I. All substance is fleeting. Containers say nothing of the substance they hold. Learn a Trade: Uselessness of passion. Success is a failure to another set of goals. The interchangeability of success and failure. The Ideal Village: Thought this was awful until the last sentence. Our ideas of perfection are just that: ideas. Reality rarely matches our conception of what we want it to be. One More Interview: How we hate the past but yet constantly seek to feel the feelings of it.
Lost love and what could have been. The Other: Grass is always greener. Fantasy better than reality. Slippage: The confusion of fantasy and reality. Poker Night: Very weak story. Awful ending. Trite and banal. Made in Heaven: Our unrealistic expectations of people and how we can be blind to every sign of change if our belief is strong enough.
Getting into the Set: The pointlessness of keeping up appearances. What we place value on and how value is easily lost. How death can't come too soon. Letting go and the importance of the freedom it brings. Death begets life. How all is transient. That special type of trust a real secret creates. True forgiveness. Aug 20, Sabrina rated it really liked it.
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