In sickness…
— Books to be avoided when passing time during a recovery from sickness.”
I am just recovering from a short illness.
From this experience, I can now recommend that you steer clear of the following books during the low points of your struggle to convalesce:
- Complications by Atul Gawande (as per Amazon listing): avoid for general health concerns, and instances where you might think that your illness might be something more serious
- Money by Martin Amis (as per Amazon listing): cordon off the shelf that contains this book when plagued by sickness, diarrhoea and fever. Same would also apply for general hangovers.
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor (as per Amazon listing): this is just running away with it. The whole of Europe damned by illness. Mass depopulation on an apocalyptic scale.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
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