The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Addendum 1: (from www.amazon.com)
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function.
In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.
The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.
Now I know why my older brothers have seemed like so many aliens.... and
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Addendum 2 (from www.amazon.com)
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
The Verghese book is 667 pages, and I read it overnight.
Fabulous books!
Wow! You're a fast reader. Did you stay up all night? Do you speed read, or do you relish every word and visual image?
ReplyDeleteI, too, have been intrigued with the differences in communication, including between men and women. Many men are from Mars, but I'm cautious about generalizing. Haven't read the book you mention. I'll add it to my list, but I have so many there now, plus actual books in my possession I've started, others I haven't yet started -- I'm overwhelmed. But then, the latter is true with other aspects of my life, so.....
Joared....I'm not a speed reader, but I do stay up all night if the book won't let me go. I read the first book on the bus to & from NJ.
ReplyDeletethe FEMALE BRAIN is an eye-opener. the differences are hard-wired, not simply behavioral. Uff da!! My parents had four little boys, then me. I'm reading this book for my granddaughter Annie, especially, who has two older brothers. As G.M. Hopkins writes, "O the mind, mind has mountains. Cliffs of fall, frightful! Hold cheap may who ne'er hung there."
oops...left out part of Hopkins quote:
ReplyDeleteit should read "Cliffs of fall, frightful, no man fathomed. Hold cheap may....." etc.