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Page Turners
Read any good books lately? Share your book recommendations with other Brunonians by sending e-mail to Events@brown.edu. Be sure to include your name, your title and department, the name of the book and author, and your brief critique. This week's page turners are:
Nadine Harris, manager of instructional budget, Office of the Provost
• Second Sight by Judith Orloff: "A well-written true account of a woman with a preternatural sensitivity to others, growing up with physicians as parents. She strongly resists her family's desire for her to become a doctor, too, until she begins to fully accept herself as she is. Paradoxically she is then able to become a physician — but on her own controversial terms."
 David Konstan, professor, Classics (left)
• The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman: "This journal, first published in 1946, describes in detail the destruction of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw as seen by one of the very few Jewish survivors. Szpilman has the remarkable capacity to see good and bad on all sides, and to give an image of humanity that is encouraging even in the midst of arbitrary and sadistic violence. It is a beautiful book."
Ruth Rosenberg, special assistant to the dean, Division of Biology and Medicine
• Voyager by Diane Gabaldon: "If you are looking for storytelling at its best, this is the book for you. Historically accurate, seamlessly told, Diane Gabaldon is a master. Don't start this book unless you have time to finish it; it is very hard to put down. Thank God thre are three more, and one coming out this fall!"
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