When breath becomes air

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue,

photo from Jordan I can’t remember the last book I devoured as quickly as When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. I fought back, hard, against the tears that wanted to pour from my eyes as I read his wife, Lucy’s, epilogue at the conclusion of the book on the airplane. This may be the

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Books on Mortality and Meaning. Books on Life and Death. End of Life. Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air.

Kalanithi is nearing the end of his long and arduous training in neurosurgery when he receives his own terminal cancer diagnosis, and the role reversal is immediate: suddenly he's the patient, not the doctor. This is the book he wrote after his diagnosis: he'd always dreamed of writing a book "one day," and when his own timeline was dramatically shortened, he got to work. He didn't quite finish: one of the best parts of the book is the moving epilogue written by his widow. Recommended for…

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A review of the moving book, When Breath Becomes Air. A memoir of Paul Kalanithi, a neuro surgeon diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. On my top ten must-read list for this year!

Last night we had our April Remedial Book Club meeting. The book was When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. Ordinarily I avoid reading any first person account of someone who dies of cancer, b…

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