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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease by Jon Palfreman
5.0
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock The Mysteries… is an excellent book to read for caregivers and family and friends of those with the disease. Told chronologically, the book begins with the namesake, James Parkinson discovering that he had tremors when walking. In 1817 James Parkinson wrote:
Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he described the first symptoms he discovered that he himself experienced. A slight tremor in some part of his body, sometimes in the head, but most likely in the hands or arms (page 6.) This was the first known diagnosis of he yet to be named illness. The essay hadn’t received a wide audience and were it not for another doctor, the Frenchman Jean-Martin Charcot, Parkinson’s Disease may well have not been known for sometime later. Charcot discovered Parkinson’s essay in the 1860s. So we can thank Jean-Martin Charcot for expanding the study of and naming this illness after its “first known” patient.
Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he described the first symptoms he discovered that he himself experienced. A slight tremor in some part of his body, sometimes in the head, but most likely in the hands or arms (page 6.) This was the first known diagnosis of he yet to be named illness. The essay hadn’t received a wide audience and were it not for another doctor, the Frenchman Jean-Martin Charcot, Parkinson’s Disease may well have not been known for sometime later. Charcot discovered Parkinson’s essay in the 1860s. So we can thank Jean-Martin Charcot for expanding the study of and naming this illness after its “first known” patient.
Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business by Joseph D'Agnese, Christian Hageseth
4.0
Excellent book. Humorous in places. Inspirational for any prospective business owners. A real page turner. Read it to get a first hand look at what it costs to get in on the ground floor of a burgeoning business.
Venus Remembered by Jason J. Marchi, Jonathan R. Eller, William F. Nolan, Ray Bradbury
5.0
I've always been a fan of Ray Bradbury. And this two story collection is a wonderful compendium. Jason Marchi proves himself a worthy trustee of Bradbury's literary style.
Don't let this book pass you by because you don't know Jason Marchi. You'll be missing out on something amazing.
Don't let this book pass you by because you don't know Jason Marchi. You'll be missing out on something amazing.
The Green Beach File by K. A. Perry
5.0
Living in the community The Green Beach File is based upon, made reading the book all the more enjoyable. Well written, it's a book I loved. One of those rare books where I want to read all the time but afraid to get to the end because, well, then it will be done.
I look forward K.A. Perry's next book. I'd love to see this become a series following the same characters.
I look forward K.A. Perry's next book. I'd love to see this become a series following the same characters.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
5.0
I absolutely love re-tellings. Here’s a book that steps outside itself and attempts something different. And man, it succeeded.
As Ash, by Melinda Lo did before A Spindle Splintered did this book turned the love relationship on its head.
The sleeping beauty tale is told here from two perspectives and the two stories work so well together.
I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Don’t let this pass you by.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED this book!
As Ash, by Melinda Lo did before A Spindle Splintered did this book turned the love relationship on its head.
The sleeping beauty tale is told here from two perspectives and the two stories work so well together.
I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Don’t let this pass you by.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED this book!
Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
5.0
Jonathan Carroll does it again. He is a master storyteller.
In this latest book, Carroll’s protagonist, Graham Patterson is a failed comedian who decides to drive cross country to perhaps work for his brother in California.
Patterson get sidetracked in North Carolina where he stumbles across a tattoo parlor. And this is where we go sideways. Anyone who has read Jonathan Carroll knows his style and his M.O.
I won’t say anything else about Mr. Breakfast other then find this book and you’ll be in for a treat.
As with all his books, when I finish one, I wish I could read it again for the first time.
In this latest book, Carroll’s protagonist, Graham Patterson is a failed comedian who decides to drive cross country to perhaps work for his brother in California.
Patterson get sidetracked in North Carolina where he stumbles across a tattoo parlor. And this is where we go sideways. Anyone who has read Jonathan Carroll knows his style and his M.O.
I won’t say anything else about Mr. Breakfast other then find this book and you’ll be in for a treat.
As with all his books, when I finish one, I wish I could read it again for the first time.