Rambler Readers July Meeting

Location: Ann's house in Menlo Park. Attendees will receive an email with the address several days prior to the meeting. Potluck, Ann will provide a main dish, we provide everything else.

This month's book selection: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

About the book: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

Future Books:

Aug: Julie
Sept: SRK
Oct: MB
Nov: MR
Dec: MT