take a look, it's in a book...

This summer I have quite enjoyed being able to catch up on some new TV shows as well as read some new books. My taste in books varies, but mostly I like reading about actual peoples lives. I'm a biography/autobiography girl. I really enjoy autobiographies that are truly honest and not guarded by publicist and editors.

Right now I'm half way through Intern: a doctor's initiation by Dr. Sandeep Jauhur. I read the first half yesterday and plan on finishing it this week. It chronicles the life of Dr. Jauhur's internship and residency in a fast paced New York City hospital. I think my favorite part about it is how raw and honest it is. Also the fact that he doubts himself so much and doesn't really know the whole time if he even wants to be a doctor. I hate science and math in school, but I'm fascinated by hospitals and the people that work in them. I guess that is also why my favorite shows are ER and Grey's Anatomy and everything on the Discovery Health Channel. I don't know why I don't have a curosity for the science or the medicine, but for the people that are the curious ones. I recommend the book if you are curious one like me. Very enlightening on what it really takes to be a doctor.

I also just recieved Open an autobiography of tennis star Andre Agassi from Amazon.com. I love watching tennis. I can't play, but I love to watch. I have a fascination with all American tennis stars including Agassi. I had read about this book in a review in Vanity Fair a while ago but never picked it up. Agassi doesn't just discuss the generic life stories or tennis but really tells it all like it was. Every feeling and every thought. I haven't gotten to really get into it yet, but once I finish Intern, I plan on emerging myself in it fully.

I'm also, for fun leasiure/no substance reading, reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels. I finished the first one recently, Dead until Dark, and have read a few chapters of the 2nd one. They are really for when I want some fiction fun without much thinking required. Some friends of mine turned me on to them and of course I got hooked.

And of course my magazine of choice is always Vanity Fair. The July issue was filled with so many wonderful articles. I loved reading about Steve Cohen who is a Wall Street billionaire who learned everything he knows from sitting outside watching the stock ticker while skipping class. He's a very private, strange man but very funny and doesn't take himself too seriously. There was also an inside story of the making of the Michael Jackson Thriller video. One of the most famous music videos of all time and it almost didn't get made. It was the last song on the album to be made into a video and Jackson himself had to put money up to make it because the studio didn't want to do it. My favorite article was Richard Burton's love letters to Elizabeth Taylor. They were so passionate and crude to one another. I quite enjoyed it. I had to share them with all my friends. He wrote her a letter hours before he died and she recieved it in the mail after returning from the funeral. It always stays in her bedside table to this day. How romantic.

Well that's what I am reading at the moment. Hope you are all having a happy reading summer.

J