Life Update + Health Related Reading Recs

Hi all! I wanted to write a short life update as I begin to transition to my post-grad life (and consequently transition zoreads!). As of this week, I am officially a medical student! Pursuing medicine has long been a dream of mine, and is closely related to how I engage with literature. 

While I will still be trying my best to keep up with reading and my literary interests, my rate of reading will be slowing down. For this reason, I’m going to be shifting my content to more closely represent my new schedule. While I will still be providing book reviews and book related content for what I do read, I will also be sharing my writing and studying content. This is to merge my various activities onto one platform and still create content and engage with the wonderful online literary community. 

Additionally, I will be providing insight into my journey with literature and medicine (alternatively, the emerging space of narrative medicine)— how literature, stories, and writing shape medical practice. For example, this pandemic has provided many insights into how the healthcare system fails various populations and how public health is commonly conceived, predominantly through the exchange and circulation of narratives and experiences. 

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With this little update, I wanted to share some recommendations of books that have shaped my journey and path to medicine, for those interested in pre-health, already involved in healthcare, or interested in medical literature:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

Stitches by David Small

The Undying by Anne Boyer

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington