Migg Rodriguez

This is a great read about a war hero, a Vietnam veteran and a revolutionary and charismatic member of the Black Panther Party. Little known ( at least to me) is his spending 27 years in prison accused of a murder that he did not commit. An eye opener also, for me was the fact that Johnny Cochran stood by his side throughout his nightmarish prison stay, yes, the same high power lawyer leading the O.J. Simpson defense team, the same one that said "if the gloves don't fit, you must acquit". Jack Olsen's Last man standing; The tragedy and triumph of Geronimo Pratt reads like a novel and it is really hard to put down once you start reading. Geronimo's life story has so many characters, you'll love some, and you'll hate some. This is a book that must be read by every person interested in how an institution like the FBI lead by Edgar J. Hoover conspired to send an innocent man to prison on false charges. I highly recommend this book.

Remarkable story of resilience and emotional triumph of a Holocaust survivor. Dr. Edith Eger writes of her unexpected capacity to survive the Nazi atrocities that millions of jews, unfortunately, did not. Dr. Eger teach us how we can choose to survive and make us stronger, both emotionally and spiritually, how we can forgive ourselves and stop feeling like victims ( even if we had the disgrace of becoming one in the hands of others). She tells us how to raise above the traumatic injury that some of us sustained as children. Stories of resilience and thrive to become better human beings and become role models for the ones that needs us the most. As I read Dr. Eger's The Choice, I re-live (if momentarily) my own traumas and had to stop reading for a day or two, then kept reading, at times crying, imagining the scenes she lives when she was separated from her parents in Auschwitz. Definitely a worth reading just as important as the works of Anne Frank, Viktor Frankl and Elie Wiesel among others. Highly, highly recommended!

Complications by Atul Gawande. Great read! As soon as i began reading this book, I found myself so immersed in the medical procedures that Dr Gawande describes: a central line, an intravenous tubing to provide nutrition drugs when the patient is unable to eat as we normally do. A tracheal esophageal laryngoscopy, a way (tube) to help the patient to breath with the help of a ventilator, and so on. "To err is human" so they say but in the case of Doctor Goodman (fictitious name) there's so more involved. We expect Doctors to be fully prepared and acknowledgeable about the diagnosis and procedure they recommend to their patients, but if in thee beginning (of reading it) you think "I know of a case of a Doctor who made this or that mistake" by the end of it you feel that, first; Doctor are human beings like everybody else and even after attending the best Medical Universities, they are prone to err occasionally, the important thing here is that they must be able to recognize when their skills and talents are diminished affected by their personal life and mental state. Highly recommended!.

Excellent read about the greed of white anglo americans that could not stand seeng native americans -the Osage people- become riches after oil ws discovered under their territory.