#14

I just read an entire book from my list in the last three hours, and I'm crying.

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi [New York: Random House, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-/129-8840-6] chronicles the abrupt change in his life as a senior neurosurgical resident who is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. It was very meaningful and well-written. Paul died in 2015, and the book was published posthumously. In it, he examines both questions of what it is to be alive and to be dying and his own experiences with both. It was very moving.