Question:
When reading a book, do you use a bookmark to mark your place in the book, or do you just fold over the top corner of the page?
Answer
I always use a bookmark. It is sinful to dog-ear a book
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Beginning:
If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of Northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass.
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Page 56
When Lia was two, a consulting neurologist recommended that she be started on Tegretol, continued on Dilantin, and gradually weaned off Phenobarbital because it was contributing to, or even entirely causing, her hyperactivity. Unfortunately, the Lees had now decided that they liked Phenobarbital, disliked Dilantin, and were ambivalent about Tegretol.
My Thoughts
As November is Epilepsy Awareness month I felt The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down would be a perfect fit for this week’s Friday Meme. The beginning leads me to think that the novel will be very descriptive of the family’s lifestyle and beliefs which I think will be very important to the novel. Thus I find the book to have a promising beginning. As for page 56, I can understand the confusion caused by medical ailments, particularly when it is your child, as my parents have gone through this. This part in the novel was heartbreaking to read.
The Book
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Pages: 341
Publication Date September 28th 1998
Source: Bought
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Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility."
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That book definitely sounds interesting. I may have to check it out.
Have a great weekend.
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The book sounds interesting; I am always eager to learn more about the differences between cultures, and how those differences can have a huge impact on health care.
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Sounds interesting. This week I am featuring Unholy City by Carrie Smith. Happy reading!
I always use a bookmark too – not an official bookmark, but some type of bookmark.
Happy Hopping!!
Elizabeth
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Not sure I’d like this but I hope you love it! Happy weekend!
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I am a sinner. The most wicked of sinners… At least when it comes to books! Thankfully – for those who get twitchy about pristine paperbacks – I typically read on my kindle
This sounds incredibly tragic. How sad that no one realized there was a misunderstanding until it was too late for the little girl.
I usually use a bookmark.
Sadly I do this sin almost all the time in books. lol
But thank you so much for your understanding and passing by my blog hop last week.
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