Arrowsmith | 
Medical Fiction
12/3/2018 to 11/27/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Martin Arrowsmith, the protagonist of the novel, was born and brought up in the small midwestern town of Elk Mills, where he developed an interest in science and spent his free hours reading through Gray's Anatomy and other books in the town's doctor's office, Doc Vickerson.
The fuck was that ending, Sinclair Lewis??? "Gonna leave my wife and kid to do science in the woods with my bro (and we're not even gay for each other just for science)"???? Yes, he and Joyce were fundamentally incompatible BUT THAT'S YOUR FUCKING KID, ARROWSMITH!!! He's going to grow up knowing that his dad loved him less than a fucking chemistry set in the woods.
#audiobook #audiocommute #RBdigtal #SeptemberTBR #Pulitzer (Fiction, 1926)
"His dissecting partner was the Reverend Ira Hinkley, known to the class by a similar but different name."
Okay, I'm going to need help with whatever this probably-obscene pun from the 1920s might be.
ETA: They say it outright later. It's "Stinkley". I'm revoking your Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis.
pickTook a break from writing medical history which led me to think, "wait a minute, have I ever read a medical novel?" Well, turns out I have. Ten years ago I read Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. And let me tell you this: it's much better than his two most famous works, Babbit and Main Street. Oh btw, Sinclair Lewis is the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
#classics #medicine #science #history
Eeek this is my first post like this, so I'm just going to have of the "of the moment" picks ?
1) Arrowsmith really contributed to me wanting to be a scientist!
2) Alexander humbolt, because I just finished The Invention of Nature
3) right now, the potential misuse of "inertia" in Dark Matter, but I'm not sure!
4) pass for now ☺️
Starting this one. My first #SinclairLewis. #pulitzer #pulitzerprize #classics #audiobooks
The book ends with the proposal of Martin and Terry to create a laboratory in Terry's woodland home so they can be able to do the important research they enjoy and need without the commercial burden exerted by department heads and institute presidents. 5y