MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'book club'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5182095&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fbooks-about-ms%2F Though we tried a regular “MS Book Club” for a couple of years here on the Life With MS Blog, it never really took. I think the idea of a book club is best experienced in person and, let’s face it, there’s food and wine at said club get-togethers! We read through some pretty good books about MS (and about living a full life in general) during that time; but it’s been a while and I know there are more books that have hit the market. So I thought we’d take this end of summertime post to chat about MS books. More to the point, I’m wondering what books you’ve found helpful, inspiring, entertaining, etc having to do with Multiple Sclerosis? I get the odd advanced copy sent to me to read/review now and again but, quite frankly don’t seem to seek out books about MS specifically... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5182095 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:41:29 +0100 5182095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419285&cid=t_106432_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F7jpbqknnQWQ%2F Discussion on Brain Fitness? There’s a revolution going on given growing evidence of lifelong neurogenesis and brain plasticity: that the brain can change and be shaped by our experiences opens many possibilities to improve our quality of life and cognitive performance, no matter how young or old we are, as long as we make informed decisions. In case you wonder, why do I care about this? Well, that’s what we want to discuss. Why care about this? What does it mean for the way we learn, work, play, live? What does “use it or lose it” mean, and doesn’t mean? Are there safe ways to enhance our cognitive resources and emotional resilience? How can we make informed decisions, as proud brain owners, caregivers, professionals? . Which Book Will Be Discussed? The discussion will be center... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419285 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:07:14 +0100 4419285 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119595&cid=t_106432_136_f&fid=39213&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbeingcancer.net%2F2010%2F10%2F29%2Fcancer-books-book-club%2F Sophie's 5! I have received a number of books recently that I hope to review in the coming months.  Since we have added so many new blogs since last year and have new readers, I am considering another shot at our Cancer Book Club.  I know people were participating but it was hard to determine how many and how consistently readers checked in.  Comments were consistent but few in number.  We did have good participation from most of the authors, even the actor Evan Handler. I may try to think of different formats.  Last year we did a book a month, dividing it into four sections with a discussion each Monday.  I may try just one monthly discussion.  I might also investigate a forum mechanism.  Another idea would be a follow-up interview with the writer based on my questions as well... Being Cancer Network blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119595 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:57:34 +0100 4119595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149202&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36036&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fkelly-building-a-crohns-disease-community%2Fcrohns-book-club-january-edition%2F Happy 2010!  I can’t believe that we are in 2010 already,  time really flies. I should not have written in my last blog about how well I was doing because I got sick that very same night!   I picked up a stomach bug and on top of that had a sinus infection.  I am now taking antibiotics.   So, I have started my New Year off with a blast; sick as a dog.  But, it is getting better now.  I just need to work on gaining the weight back that I lost from being sick.  I was already getting kind of low with my weight and then I lost another three or four pounds on top of that because I’m sick.  I may try drinking Ensure for weight gain again to see if it still bothers me or not. For those of you new to this Crohn’s blog we decided not long ago that we would create a book club since ... Life with Crohn's blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149202 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:24:40 +0100 3149202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3052284&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36036&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fkelly-building-a-crohns-disease-community%2Fcrohns-disease-book-club-blog-december-edition%2F A few weeks ago I suggested that we start a book club to get our mind off of Crohn’s disease for a bit and allow us to think about something else.    It seems like you all agree, so let’s try it out.   Remember, there are no set rules here, we can change our book club format as many times as it takes for this to be fun for all of us. Since I am the one who writes the blog, I will write about the book (or books- since I read several in a month) that I read the previous month.  I will give a short synopsis of the book and state whether it was a good read.  I will rate the book on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the worst and 10 the best and then tell you what I liked best about the book and what I liked least.  Since this is the first real Crohn’s book club blog, we should all write i... Life with Crohn's blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3052284 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:18:38 +0100 3052284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984927&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36036&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fkelly-building-a-crohns-disease-community%2Fa-crohns-book-club%2F I was thinking that we should start a book club.  I read a lot because of many reasons, one of which is that I have a lot of potty time available for my reading pleasure.   The other, is that I just love to read.  Or rather, I love to get lost in a story and forget my troubles and worries just for a little while.  I love it when I get so excited about a book, that I can’t stop thinking about it and can’t wait to get home to read it.  The last time that happened to me was when I read the Twilight series.  I could not put those books down.  I have read many authors across the spectrum of different genres and will read just about anything, except lately anything violent or dark.  I feel that there is enough bad in the world already and I would rather read something pleasant to ta... Life with Crohn's blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984927 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:12:02 +0100 2984927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2948308&cid=t_106432_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fbreastfeeding123%2Fthe-wet-nurses-tale-book-discussion%2F Join the on-line book discussion of The Wet Nurse’s Tale! Elita at Blacktating first posted a very interesting interview with the author Erica Eisdorfer and then reviewed the book. Now the book has been released and Tanya at the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog has suggested an on-line discussion group. I have put a hold on the book at one of my county libraries (25 cents gets it shipped to my local branch!) and I can hardly wait to get started reading next week. The timing is good because I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (quite a dense and informative read — one worth plowing through. Oh, did I just go with the farming pun? ) The Wet Nurse’s Tale is a historical novel set in Victorian England and it features a ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2948308 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:42:49 +0100 2948308 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511974&cid=t_106432_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FUYUQquNqJ8Y%2F Discussion Guide Alzheimers Association, book club, Brain Fitness, brain fitness guide, Club One, Elizabeth Edgerly, fitness centers, kindle, kindle edition, mental exercise, Physical Exercise, Robin Klaus, stay sharp, Twitter (Source: SharpBrains) SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511974 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:34:39 +0100 2511974 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442194&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Ffinal-ms-book-club-blog%2F Over the past couple of years, we’ve taken the last post of the month to discuss a book we’ve been reading together…in theory.  The idea never really took off and I’ve always asserted that this blog was all about you.  So, today we end the run with a final discussion from Professor Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture. One of my favorite parts of these book club blogs has been our final discussion of each book.  We’ve been lucky enough to have our authors join us for a frank discussion of their books.  Everything, from what it took to actually sit down and write to their personal MS struggles, has been fodder for our pages. This post, however, will be devoid of the author as he passed away of the very disease of which he knew he would…and therefore ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442194 Fri, 29 May 2009 21:51:40 +0100 2442194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2375902&cid=t_106432_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2FlGWjOMS45zk%2Fhandmaids-tale-revisited_27.html Just in time for Mother’s Day (May 10th this year - mark your calendars!), the Women’s Bioethics Project Book Club has released its next selection: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Download the book club kit developed by WBP advisory board member Sue Trinidad and join us as we explore the bioethical implications of commercial surrogacy, the role of genetic relatedness, redefining concepts of motherhood and the commodification of women's bodies. Read and discuss with your Mom, your daughters, and friends – let us know what you think – join the conversation! (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2375902 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:41:50 +0100 2375902 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2321730&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fms-book-club-finishing-the-last-lecture%2F Today, we finish reading Randy Pausch’s book, The Last Lecture. These last two sections are filled with short snippets from a lifetime of gained knowledge.  I suppose that once one gets his head around the fact that he is short for this world, the results of some hard-fought lessons become painfully clear. The desire to continue imparting knowledge, even in the final days of his life, must have been a forceful drive in our professor.  Even after he had devoted so much of his remaining months to writing his actual “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon, he continued to put to paper his life’s philosophies and some context for those who had grown to admire him. I’m curious, how many of you have actually watched Professor Pausch’s “Last Lecture?” ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2321730 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:33:55 +0100 2321730 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2223204&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fthe-ms-book-club-blog-the-last-lecture%2F As I sit at my laptop, toast and coffee at the ready, I am forced to admit (to myself as much as to you, the readers of Life with MS) that multiple sclerosis is to be a factor in my day today.  I’ve been having on-again-off-again MS symptoms for over two weeks now and I’m going to have to stop looking the other way.  I’ll keep an eye on it all and update you in next week’s How’s Your MS Today; blog posting. Today, however, we’re trying to get back on schedule with our book club blog.  With the holidays and the move to Everyday Health it’s been some time since we talked about Professor Randy Pausch’s book, The Last Lecture. We’ve reviewed the introduction and sections I & II already, now we move to sections III & IV of the tome. Once I picked up the book, I simp... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2223204 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:52:11 +0100 2223204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2216531&cid=t_106432_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F26%2Fintroducing-anxiety-ocd-exposed%2F You asked, we answered. Introducing our newest blog, Anxiety & OCD Exposed! Anxiety and OCD Exposed is written by the authors of a series of “Dummies” books on mental health concerns, including the one for anxiety disorders and the one for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). They’ll be blogging every week on these two (and related) topics with their insights, opinions and news about anxiety and OCD. Laura L. Smith, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of adults and children with obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as personality disorders, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and learning disorders. She is often asked to provide consultations to attorneys, school districts, and governmental agencies. She presents workshops on cogn... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2216531 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:18:09 +0100 2216531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2195238&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Flife-with-ms-community-welcome-back%2F Well, what do you think? It was a process the scope of which can’t even be imagined but it’s done; we’ve moved all the content from HealthTalk to EverydayHealth.com and I’d like to thank everyone who worked so hard to get it all done. I’d also like to thank all of YOU who kept checking back to Life with MS to see if we were back and running over the past week or so.  This is your community and I’m glad you have stuck with us! This new platform affords us so much more exposure and will make us even stronger.  It’s a very exciting time. Change, however, is something we with MS fear.  But if nothing else, multiple sclerosis teaches us that change is something with which we’re going to have to learn to deal/cope/accept.  All of the HealthTalk content you have grown to expec... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2195238 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:11:55 +0100 2195238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2084356&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Flife-with-ms-book-club-examing-the-intro-to-the-the-last-lecture%2F Happy New Year to you, one and all!!! Normally we end the month, like we have for the past couple of years now, with our book club blog. This month we’ll begin with the book club blog post. If you recall we are reading “The Last Lecture.” We begin our journey with the late Randy Pausch, former professor at Carnegie Mellon University. We call this an “MS Book Club” but this book has nothing directly referring to multiple sclerosis. Rather it is a tome on how to achieve one’s childhood dreams. Our assignment for this month was to read the introduction and chapters I & II. This is a very personal look into the wishes of a dying man and how he plucked up the courage to take many of his last hours away from his family in order to invest them in something... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2084356 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:57:05 +0100 2084356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1930483&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Flife-with-ms-book-club-the-last-lecture%2F Hope everyone had a happy Halloween. It’s time to announce our next reading adventure. This will be our third book and as I look to the Life with MS archive I come to realize that we will be entering into our third year of the Life with MS Book Club Blog as well. Boy, do we read slowly!I’ve decided to give us an early holiday gift as our next book. I’m very excited about this read and I hope you will be also. Our first book, Allison Shadday’s “MS and Your Feelings: Handling the Ups and Downs of Multiple Sclerosis” was a big hit and I think we all use it as a reference (or at least I do) now and again. Last month, we wrapped up with our Author’s Notes by Dawn Bailiff from her “Notes from a Minor Key,” a memoire. This time, our Life with ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1930483 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:42 +0100 1930483 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1886833&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fdawn-bailiff-on-notes-from-a-minor-key%2F As promised, I’ll share notes from the author of our most recent Book Club Blog; Dawn Bailiff. Her work, “Notes From A Minor Key” has been the subject of our monthly review for the past couple of months. Dawn has much to write to us, so I’ll end my comments here. We thank Ms. Bailiff for her time in sharing a few thoughts with us and for telling her story, which is in parts, the story of many of us. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dawn Bailiff: I would like to thank those of you in the HealthTalk MS community who have taken the time to read, discuss, contemplate and even criticize my book. You are a group with a “good energy” who collectively refuses to be defeated or defined by the MonSter. I send special gratitude to Trevis for providing such a wonderful MS reso... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1886833 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:53:25 +0100 1886833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1851057&cid=t_106432_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F9d2FwrvtijA%2F Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) has commissioned what is described as the “first national survey of attitudes toward autism.” Today’s Physorg notes some highlights of the report; more results of the survey will be revealed at an autism conference to be held at FIT this weekend. The Scott Center for Autism Treatment is located at FIT. Its College of Psychology and Liberal Arts, which commissioned the survey, offers a graduate program in Applied Behavior Analysis. Looking at what Physorg reports about the survey’s result, there’s a lot of confusion out there about what causes autism and what it is. 1000 men and women who were 21 years old or older were randomly selected from throughout the nation and information was gathered via telephone interviews conduc... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1851057 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:03:22 +0100 1851057 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1851058&cid=t_106432_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FtilxUiiWrWI%2F It’s Day 3 of the Science Blogs Book Club on Dr. Paul Offit’s Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. Dr. Offit has been posting and responding to questions (yesterday he noted that “anti-vaccine forces have taken the autism story hostage,” and I agree). Kev of Left Brain/Right Brain writes about how autism has become a secondary concern, Orac posts about framing vaccines, and I have a post up about mercury rising and falling and Lyn Redwood. You can also read other reviews of Dr. Offit’s book in the Kansas City Star and on the LA Times Booster Shots blog. The Rocky Mountain News gives the book an A- and notes that “Offit’s sarcasm and brow-beating of those he disagrees with is grating - this book will... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1851058 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:26:56 +0100 1851058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1747060&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fbook-club-blog-the-soul%2F This month’s book club blog brings us to the end of Dawn Bailiff’s book, “Notes From a Minor Key: A Memoir of Music, Love and Healing.” We’ve been following Ms. Bailiff’s story from her early days as an aspiring music student through her early successes in the international concert scene to her diagnosis with MS. Today, we discuss the final section of her book; a section she calls “The Soul.” Ms Bailiff has not shied away from telling her readers about her other health issues in the course of her story. To tell of the unthinkable losses she faced in these last chapters is almost too much to read, let alone live. Not to belittle the other issues she lived with and through, reading the penultimate heartbreak of losing a young son can only be th... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1747060 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:16:14 +0100 1747060 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1675220&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fbook-club-blog-the-diagnosing-ms-attack%2F I know we’re supposed to be finishing our book this month, but I’m changing the plan. In re-reading chapter 20 our book of current discussion, “Notes from a Minor Key,” coupled with my recent rehash of my own MS diagnosis, I just felt like this chapter might be an important one to discuss in depth. Chapter 20 deals with the author’s (Dawn Bailiff) diagnosing attack, an episode which, while different for each of us, we can all relate. I totally loved that Dawn refers to the way she was treated in hospital as “Project Moi.” I literally laughed out loud in a public place when I read that line. How many of us haven’t felt like that at least once in our MS career? I’ve stated before that most of us are still spinning from the attack (let alo... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1675220 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:12:38 +0100 1675220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1556550&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fnotes-from-a-minor-key-chapters-17-21%2F Summer finally arrived in my part of the world this weekend. It should be noted that summer only officially arrives in Trevis Gleason-world when it is hot enough for me to have an iced coffee and gin and tonic in the same day. It was due to a bit of summer frolic that my Friday posting didn’t make it to the office on time. As summer begins, June ends. This being the last post of June, we’re on to our book club blog. We’re discussing chapters 17-21 of Dawn Baliff’s book, “Notes from a Minor Key” this month. This section of the text begins with the culmination of many young women’s dreams: marriage to the man she loves, a wonderful (fully paid) honeymoon to a quaint village in the warmth of Spain and lying with her husband for the first time. At the very time when Dawn wants to... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1556550 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:59:15 +0100 1556550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1480952&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fnotes-from-a-minor-key-chapters-6-16%2F The last posting of each month, we take time to talk about our book of choice. We are currently discussing “Notes from a Minor Key” by Dawn Bailiff, a former child piano prodigy and woman living with some serious health issues. When we last left Dawn, she was on the road to a tenuous relationship with a man significantly her senior who was already in a romantic relationship. She was struggling with her musical place in the world and with an unknown health issue. We now find out, 8 months into the future, that her pain was caused by endometriosis. I must admit that I’ve been told by more than a few women that they’ve had bouts with this disease. Maybe it’s a guy thing, but I had NO IDEA that it could be this bad! As the author makes her way through the unbelievable complexities of... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1480952 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:58:30 +0100 1480952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1423766&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fnotes-from-a-minor-key-chapters-1-5%2F We are a little off schedule with my recent trilogy about my MS diagnosis. Typically, I like to end the month with our book club blog discussion. So without further ado, let’s get this Cinco de Mayo party…er, blog started. Our new book is Dawn Baliff’s “Notes from a Minor Key.” If you recall, we already decided how we would divide this book up for easy digestion and discussion. Therefore, today we’ll discuss chapters 1-5. The first thing that strikes me about the book is Dawn’s style and tone. This is not a tiptoe around subjects with a withering flower kind of book. This is an east coast born and bred woman telling it how it was and is, and pondering how it will be. I’ve winced, I’ve blushed and I’ve squirmed while reading these pages, and I don’t think she ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1423766 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:01:12 +0100 1423766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1380603&cid=t_106432_154_f&fid=36333&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enotes.com%2Fblogs%2Fnews-blog%2F2008-04%2Fenotes-book-club-week-2%2F We had a great first week discussing Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles, and author Will Clarke took the time to respond to all of our questions (thanks, Will!). Tomorrow (4/17/08), we’ll begin discussing Chapters 4, 5, and 6 in the eNotes Book Club. Again, specific questions for Clarke about Lord Vishnu can be posted here. (Source: eNotes News Blog) eNotes News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1380603 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:19 +0100 1380603 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1356319&cid=t_106432_154_f&fid=36333&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enotes.com%2Fblogs%2Fnews-blog%2F2008-04%2Fjoin-the-enotes-book-club%2F It’s free, it’s fun, and it’s much hipper than Oprah’s. Our first selection is Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles, and we’re lucky enough to have the author, Will Clarke, participate. We’ll begin discussing the first three chapters of the novel this Thursday (4/10/08), so get your copy fast and join the eNotes Book Club. Specific questions for Clarke about Lord Vishnu can be posted here. (Source: eNotes News Blog) eNotes News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1356319 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:23:32 +0100 1356319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1340969&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fbook-club-blog-notes-from-a-minor-key%2F It’s a little hard to believe that we started our Book Club Blog over a year ago. In that time, we focused on Allison Shadday’s text, “MS And Your Feelings”. Last month, we finished that thread with a posting by the author herself; what an honor! Today, we move to our new book, “Notes from a Minor Key: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Healing,” written by Dawn Bailiff. This book is a memoir of a talented and driven woman: a musician, a wife, a mother, a person living with multiple sclerosis, but, first, foremost and throughout the book, a woman! This book will be a little more difficult to divide into readable/discussable chunks than our last. I propose that we take it as such: For discussion in April, chapters 1-5, for May, chapters 6-16, June, 17-21, July we’ll finish the book ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1340969 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:14:41 +0100 1340969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1287855&cid=t_106432_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F247750093%2Fgood-read.html A Good Read Another solid addition to the WBP Book Club is Devra Davis' The Secret History of the War on Cancer. For those of you who may have already read this book—this review comes as no... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1287855 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:35:11 +0100 1287855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1268690&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fauthor-notes-on-ms-and-your-feelings%2F For the past year, we’ve been reading and discussing Allison Shadday’s book about MS and our feelings. We’ve had a great time studying and sharing her text and now this book has drawn to a close. I know I’m not the only one who will keep this book on my reference shelf for future review; every day of life with MS brings new feelings to the fore. I am very happy to turn over the remainder of this final installment of the “MS And Your Feelings” book club to our first featured author; Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…Allison Shadday! It has been such an honor to have “MS & Your Feelings” featured as the first book to be reviewed in Trevis’ blog. I’ve spent time reading many of your comments about both the book and life in general. Your support and encouragement of ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1268690 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:43:58 +0100 1268690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1196091&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fallison-shadday-joins-the-life-with-ms-crew%2F Happy February, everyone! I know I just posted our monthly book club blog, so it might be odd to speak of the book again, this quickly. I have just secured some very exciting news about this topic and wanted to share. Allison Shadday, the author of our first book, “MS and Your Feelings,” on our book club blog, is going to be joining us for the final discussion we have for her book! Allison has become a good friend (even though she lives a drive, ferry ride and another drive away from me) and has agreed to the idea. We’re calling it, “Author’s Notes.” Here’s how I see the whole thing going down (and I hope that we can make this work with our new author, Dawn Bailiff, as well). Please post comments for Allison on the Chapter 12 book club blog. Over the next few weeks, she’ll ... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1196091 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:56:43 +0100 1196091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1190101&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fms-and-your-feelings-book-club-blog-chapter-12%2F Um, what? Sometimes, I swear, I feel like “that” guy from one of the sophomoric college films. Someone will be asking me a question or making a statement that requires further comment from me, and I feel like I’ve been asked to give a report on a book I’ve read under water. “Cognitive issues,” as we’ll call them, range from comprehension to fatigue-induced fog and they are real! This final chapter of Allison Shadday’s book deals with not only the challenges but coping skills for these issues. I say “final chapter” even though there are a couple of short bits after this one. I feel that this is the last of the chapters we need to discuss. Over the past year, we’ve been taking one chapter of the book per month for discussion. Your comments have been numerous on some top... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1190101 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:28:40 +0100 1190101 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1063078&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fms-and-your-feelings-book-club-blog-chapter-10%2F Each month here at the Life with MS blog, we take our final posting to discuss our book club book. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been taking apart one chapter of Allison Shadday’s book: “MS and Your Feelings.” This month, Chapter 10 deals with communications. I’ll admit my faults right up front here. As a writer, teacher and public speaker (particularly on the topic of multiple sclerosis), you might think that my communication about MS would be pretty good. Ask anyone in my life (family, friends, colleagues, dogs) and you’d likely get a lukewarm response. Ask me and I’ll give it to you pretty straight; I’m NOT a good communicator about my MS. Several of the things in this section were like my own personal to-do list. I’m the guy who says he doesn’t want... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1063078 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:44:24 +0100 1063078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=995186&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fms-and-your-feelings-book-club-blog-chapter-9%2F Call me ahead of my time, call me clairvoyant, call me acutely aware…I’ll call me lucky! A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a posting (and you responded, heartily) about being tired. Today, as we look to our book club blog, we’re talking about being sick and tired of being sick and tired. For those of you just joining the conversation (and I’m seeing a lot of new names out there and that is GREAT), we take the last blog of each month and review a chapter of Allison Shadday’s recently published book “MS and Your Feelings: Handling the Ups and Downs of Multiple Sclerosis.” This month, we’re on to chapter 9. I devoured this book when the first of several copies made their way to me. I’ll admit that I’ve been re-scanning the past couple of chapters as I write my monthly blog en... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=995186 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:24:46 +0100 995186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=947519&cid=t_106432_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fms-and-your-feelings-book-club-blog-chapter-8%2F I know, I know! Here it is the 12th of October and Trevis is finally writing the book club blog that was supposed to post the last day of September. Truth be known, it wasn’t until I was writing the “How’s your MS” blog that I realized that the calendar had moved to October. Couple that with some other technical issues and here we are, Friday of week two rather than Friday of week four. My apologies to all of our readers and to Allison Shadday, our author. This month’s chapter deals with grief and grieving. We’ve had conversations in these pages about grieving before. It’s something that we with multiple sclerosis must learn to process over and over in the course of our disease. Just when we think we’ve gotten “over” something, something else is taken from us. We grieve... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947519 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:23:48 +0100 947519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=749061&cid=t_106432_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2F135965850%2Fjoin-our-harry-potter-book-club.php Our Summer Book selection is of course Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The UPS guy will be delivering my book ANY MINUTE. I can barely contain myself! If you have a copy, please join this discussion in our Book... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=749061 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:37:26 +0100 749061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=495257&cid=t_106432_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2F86003660%2Fharry-potter-and-the-deathly-hollows.php Amazon has the new Harry Potter book on pre-order! If you're a Harry fan like me, you will be eager to enjoy this July book club selection. I can't wait for summer! Pre-Order Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - $18.99 hardcover! Deathly Hollows Deluxe Edition - plenty of color artwork and collector's box (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=495257 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:10:34 +0100 495257