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151 and 152. This is Going to Hurt and T'was the Nightshift Before Christmas, by Adam Kay
Owned: Yes
Page count: 277 and 142
My summary: Adam Kay shares his diary entries from his years as a doctor, first on the hospital rounds then specialising as an ob/gyn. From the tragic to the hilarious, his diaries reveal a true story of working for the NHS.
My rating: 5/5
My commentary:
Back to Adam Kay. I've talked about these books before, but something about them recently had me giving them a second look. They're still as great as they were the first time. I've always marvelled at the ability that comedy writers have to balance the silly and the serious, shifting the tone of a piece on a dime from jokey or sarcastic to serious as a heart attack. Which is really the theme of working in the NHS, as far as I understand it from Kay's testimony and other reading. For every member of the public who comes in with something strange stuck into their every orifice, there's budget cuts or poor decisions being made by the higher-ups that have a very real, very serious impact on the British public. I mean, I complain about shitty decisions being made at my work by the local council, but at the end of the day a library being underfunded isn't as dangerous as a hospital being underfunded. I'm very unlikely to make a mistake that kills someone at my job due to being overtired or stressed, after all.
It's honestly astounding to look back on this from a post-Covid* perspective. I remember being encouraged to stand out on the street and applaud the NHS for their amazing work during the early pandemic, and there were 'thank you NHS!' stickers everywhere. And then the medical professionals dared to ask for more money and better working conditions, and suddenly they're the bad guys all over again. We appreciate doctors and nurses and other NHS staff in the abstract, but we don't really care about their wellbeing. Kay points it out in one anecdote - people act as though doctors aren't fallible humans, as if they're just machines who know a lot about the human body, who can be mistreated and made to work long hours for little pay. He had to miss out on a lot of his life because he was needed at the hospital, causing arguments with his then-partner and family and friends. He came into work exhausted, something that isn't advised when one is performing delicate surgery as part of their job. And the system is perfectly happy to grind down all of these doctors into dust, in the name of public health. Fuck the Tories, and up the doctors, I think is my point here. I love the NHS. I just wish that it had enough funding to work.
(* By post-Covid, I mean that we are living in a world after Covid-19 emerged, as opposed to 'Covid is gone forever and nobody has to worry about it any more'.)
Next up...ugh, why do I keep doing this to myself? It's the House of Night again.
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September 2022 Wrap-Up
4.5 stars
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Secret Lives of Afghanistan Girls Disguised as Boys/Jenny Nordberg (documentary non-fiction)-Follows the lives of girls and woman in Afghanistan who live as boys and men, used to live as boys or have their daughters live as boys.
4 stars
Wintergirls/Laurie Halse Anderson (ya realistic fiction)-Lia is sick. She doesn’t eat. Her ex-best friend who hasn’t spoken to her in month dies in a hotel room all alone. Before she died she called Lia. Lia didn’t pick up the phone.
3.5 stars
Carola Storms the Chalet School/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #23) (middle grade school story)-Carola is thoroughly tired of traipsing around the world with an aunt who doesn’t really like kids. She decides to run away-to the Chalet School.
3 stars
Frightful’s Mountain/Jean Craighead George (Mountain #3) (middle grade nature realistic fiction)-Frightful flies and mates and nests, discovering how to be a free falcon.
Watch Over Me/Nina LaCour (ya magical realism)-Mila is aging out of foster care. She’s going to work on a remote farm as a schoolteacher for a family which takes in tens of foster kids. What they didn’t tell her before she took the job is that there are ghosts on the farm.
2.5 stars
The Luckiest Girl/Beverly Cleary (ya romance)-Shelley is leaving rainy Oregon to go live in California for a year. On the first day of school she already knows who she wants to go out with. She just needs to let him know she exists.
‘Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas/Adam Kay (Adam Kay hospital diaries #2) (epistolary memoir)-In the seven years he worked in hospital Adam Kay was in Christmas for six of them. These are the diaries from that time.
2 stars
Narwhal on a Sunny Night/Mary Pope Osborne and A.G. Ford (Magic Tree House #33) (children’s fantasy time travel)-Jack and Annie travel to Greenland and find a narwhal. But there’s a boy with a spear who wants to kill it. Will they be able to stop him and make friends between everybody?
1.5 stars
Light from Uncommon Stars/Ryka Aoki (adult fantasy sci fi)-Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil to give him seven souls. There’s just on left she has to find. Katrina is a trans musician who has just run away. And Lan Tran is a spaceship captain and refugee with a doughnut shop.
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Books Read in August 2022
- ★★★★★
This is Going to Hurt (Adam Kay, 2017, England)
Empire of Pain : The Secret History of The Sackler Dinasty (Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021, USA)
Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett, 1992, England)
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint : Volume 4 (Singshong, 2021, South Korea)
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Patrick Radden Keefe, 2022, USA)
Maskerade (Terry Pratchett, 1995, England)
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- ★★★★
Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett, 1991, England)
The Summer Book (Tove Jansson, 1972, Finland)
The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green, 2021, USA)
The Last Continent (Terry Pratchett, 1998, England)
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas (Adam Kay, 2019, England)
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Jenette McCurdy, 2022, USA)
Sign (Ker, 2017-2020, South Korea)
The Odyssey (Homer, IX B.C, Greece)
Live From New York : The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Tom Shales and James Andre Miller, 2014, USA)
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Elif Shafak, Turkey, 2019)
Semantic Error 01- 58 (Jeosuri and Angy, 2021-2022, South Korea)
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- ★★★
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847, England)
And Playing The Role of Herself (K. E. Lane, 2007, USA)
The Sundial (Shirley Jackson, 1958, USA)
The Girl On The Velvet Swing : Sex, Murder and Madness at The Dawn of The Twentieth Century (Simon Baatz, 2018, USA)
Poema Sujo (Ferreira Gullar, 1976, Brazil)
Getting to Know Grace (Hilde and Mokma, 2018, South Korea)
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- ★★
The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Patricia Highsmith, 1980, USA)
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Favourite books -- Rainbow Edition
Red
+ Neil Shusterman - Scythe
+ Angie Thomas - Concrete Rose
+ Hidenori Kusaka - Pokemon Adventures V1
+ Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff - Illuminae
Orange
+ Hank Green - A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
+ Sarah Beth Durst - Race the Sands
+ Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Yellow
+ William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
+ Alice Oseman - Heartstopper V3
+ Dick Bruna - Nijntje an Zae
Green
+ Paul Krueger - Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
+ Adam Kay - Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Light Blue
+ John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
+ George Orwell - Animal Farm
Dark Blue
+ J.D. Oswald - Dreamwalker
+ Patrick Rothfuss - The Slow Regard of Silent Things
+ Andrezj Sapkowski - The Last Wish
Purple
+ Darren Shan - Palace of the Damned
+ Christopher Paolini - The Fork, the Witch and the Worm
+ Taran Matharu - The Outcast
Black
+ Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey
+ John Green - Looking for Alaska
+ Jenna Moreci - The Savior’s Champion.
White
+ Grady Hendrix - Horrorstör
+ Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
+ Genki Kawamura - If Cats disappeared from the World
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2017
A View from the Foothills, Chris Mullin (2009)
The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes (2016)
The End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley (2010)
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee (1969)
2018
A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgård (2013)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes (1989)
Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn (2012)
Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (2017)
In Love, Alfred Hayes (1953)
Autumn, Ali Smith (2016)
Educated, Tara Westover (2018)
The Children Act, Ian McEwan (2014)
The Only Story, Julian Barnes (2018)
Bad News, Edward St Aubyn (2012)
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)
The Power, Naomi Alderman (2016)
Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney (2017)
Swimming Home, Deborah Levy (2011)
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (1998)
Less, Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (2018)
Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (2017)
The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)~
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)#
This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (2017)
Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)#
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (2018)
2019
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)#
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (2016)
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)#
Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)
Florida, Lauren Groff (2018)
The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (2013)#
Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy (2018)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris (2018)#
Ordinary People, Diana Evans (2019)
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1999)
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)#
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Joel Golby (2019)
Love, Nina: Dispatches from Family Life, Nina Stibbe (2013)
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
The World According to Garp, John Irving (1978)#
Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys (1939)
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)#
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (2017)
This is Pleasure, Mary Gaitskill (2019)
Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn (2012)
Mr Salary, Sally Rooney (2019)
2020
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)
Three Women, Lisa Taddeo (2019)#
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, Adam Kay (2019)
The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier (2018)
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami (1999)#
Smile Please, Jean Rhys (1979)
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson (2015)#
Reunion, Fred Uhlman (1971)
Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry (2019)
A Little Life, Haniya Yanagihara (2015)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)#
Boomerang, Michael Lewis (2012)#
Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2018)#
Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick (2010)
Calypso, David Sedaris (2018)#
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)
Any Human Heart, William Boyd (2002)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (1968)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)#
Lullaby, Leïla Slimani (2016)#
Summerwater, Sarah Moss (2020)
Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020)
The Appointment, Katharina Volckmer (2020)
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1831)#
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (2018)
The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard (2017)
2021
I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya (2018)#
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, Isabel Hardman (2018)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carre (1963)#
Emma, Jane Austen (1815)
News of the World: A Novel, Paulette Jiles (2016)#
Transit, Rachel Cusk (2018)
Good Behaviour, Molly Keane (1981)#
Deep Work, Cal Newport (2016)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)#
We Are All Birds of Uganda, Hafsa Zayyan (2021)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1970)
Dead Souls, Sam Riviere (2021)
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (2020)#
Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton (1941)
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2012)
The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis (1973)
Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (2021)
Kudos, Rachel Cusk (2018)
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)#
How to Write a Novel in 6 Months, Thomas Emson (2020)
Writing a Novel, Richard Skinner (2018)
Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent, Emily Chappell (2019)#
Arbitration: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas Schultz and Thomas Grant (2021)
No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, Lauren Elkin (2021)
Metroland, Julian Barnes (1980)
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" ‘I saw your face when you were talking to Sophie,’ he continues. ‘You
miss working in hospital over Christmas!’
I laugh a little too hard, before saying, ‘Of course not!’
But we both know I do. I really, really do."
Adam Kay, Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas (82)
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An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the year. With twenty-five tales of intriguing, shocking and incredible Christmas incidents, the British public will finally appreciate the sacrifices made and the challenges faced by the unsung heroes of the NHS.Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas will be fully illustrated (as tastefully as possible) and will delight all of Adam?s fans throughout the festive period of Christmas 2019 and for many years to come.
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In the early 1900s, Saalfield Publishing Company created a line of muslin books that could be washed without the color running and hard to tear when in the hands of children. The timeless poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” featured in this muslin book has become a staple during the Christmas season. “When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer…”
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My Month in Books: February 2022
My Month in Books: February 2022
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
One of Capote’s most famous novels and a pioneer in the genre of true crime, In Cold Blood, tells the story of a vicious murder that shook a community to its’ foundations. In the tiny town of Holcomb, Kansas, the Clutter family are popular and well-loved pillars of the local community. So when they are all found dead in their home after being tied up and shot at…
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Christmas Reads
Hey Guys!
Its day 23!!! Only 2 more days to go! I honestly can’t believe how quickly this month has gone. It seems to have flown by! Oh well, since we are so far into Blogmas now, I thought that it is about time that I did my Christmas reads post. If you have no idea what I am talking about with that, basically, this post is a cross between a seasonal wrap-up post and a recommendations one. I do…
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Twas the Nightshift before Christmas Review
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay is a 144 page Non-fiction book about his experienced when he worked as a junior doctor for the NHS around Christmas.
I’ve read this book around March, but thought it was more appropriate to post the review now with the holiday season coming up. I loaned it from someone at the BookSwap club with the intention to return it the next month, but due to Corona no gathering were possible, so I’ve been unable to do so.
Warning: Graphic content within the book, it’s clearly labeled with the page number to skip to.
I rate this book 4/5 stars.
I read most of this book in a single day during the AnimalCrossing Readathon (9th-20th March 2020). It was my pick for Tom Nook (Read a book you recentlry purchased or aquired).
It was a really enjoyable read. There were moments and comments that made me laugh and chuckle. I’ve some background in th medical field (graduated Veterinarian Technician) and I did see myself in some of this experiences.
I also like the snippets of goodness this book brings. Moments that you do something good in the spirit of Christmas. It’s also a testimony for all the weird and crazy things people get up to, mostly while drunk.
If you have any questions send me an ask here on Tumblr or tweet me. If there are any book you’d like to recommend, let me know!
#book#books#review#reviews#book review#Adam Kay#twas the night before christmas#Twas the nightshift before christmas#christmas#nightshift#doctor#NHS
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... in which we offer more Summer Reading Challenge recommendations :)
for each prompt, we’re bringing 4 books into the spotlight, as well as giving you some additional recs because we simply couldn’t settle for just four great reads!
Yesterday I Was the Moon
by Noor Unnahar
A collection of beautiful contemporary poems about courage, self-love, culture, relationships with others, and the struggles of making peace with your heart and art. A story about becoming oneself, accompanied by illustrations by the author herself.
>> i am growing flowers / in the darkest part of my heart / for if light ever enters / it would know where to start
If My Body Could Speak
by Blythe Baird
A story about fighting for the space one takes up in a world that would rather they take up none at all.Through poetry, Baird discusses feminism, relationships, family, body image, mental health, and growth.
>> Growing up, my mother taught me that lipstick should be reserved / only for special occasions. / Now, I wear it all the time. / I am my own special occasion.
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by Adam Kay
A diary of a junior doctor (resident for those in the USA) that offers unique insight into real-life medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking: everything you wanted to know (and more than a few things you didn't) about life on and off the hospital ward.
Whether you're an (aspiring) med student or just curious to know what it's like (without having to go through med school), this is a highly entertaining way to get a glimpse into the life of medical professionals. And don't worry, the medical jargon is accompanied by (laugh-inducing) footnotes, so everyone can enjoy equally.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
by Caitlin Doughty
Making great use of clever humour, mortician Caitlin Doughty answers young future corpses' uncommon and truly brilliant questions about death, dying and all the procedures around it.
Why don't bugs eat people's bones? If I died making a stupid face, would it be stuck like that forever? Can I preserve my dead body in amber like a prehistoric insect? Can we give grandma a viking funeral? and more, all answered truthfully and with respect to death, the natural conclusion to a life.
More recs under the cut:
Poetry:
• Tie Your Shoes Kid by M. Sarmiento
• Women are some kind of magic series by A. Lovelace
• What We Buried by Caitlyn Siehl
Non fiction:
• Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by A. Kay
(sequel to This is Going to Hurt)
• Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by N. Krug
(graphic novel)
• Fermat’s Enigma by S. Singh
• Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing by M. Atwood
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