Currently reading
The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
After he was diagnosed with Leukemia in his early 20s, he was treated at the best cancer treatment center in the U.S., where he was forced to spend his sickest hours resisting sloppy, callous and medically dangerous treatments, such as medications to which he was known to have potentially fatal reactions.Somehow his recovery process proved adequate, because the young actor-in-training I'd read about so many years ago became quite successful.
I'd like to think I'd be sufficiently diplomatic as a patient under similar conditions, but his successful recovery, advice, and my moods when the slightest bit sick suggest I may just die of impatience.
