Life’s Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Browne is a classic for all time.
Amazon reports that the H. Jackson Brown 63C Life’s Little Instruction Book series “has sold more than ten million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Originally written from a father to a son, the book offers insights, simple suggestions, heartfelt humor, and reminders for readers of all ages.”
Wisdom in medicine is the topic of the new James G. McCully 67MR medical memoir Good Times in the Hospital. With emphasis on truth and humor, the author says, “If you think it is insensitive to laugh at doctors attending their patients and entertain ourselves with yarns of patients lying in their sickbed, you are reading the wrong book.”
Amazon’s book description notes, “As the chapters accumulate, the reader begins to realize that doctors are not much different from the rest of us. As for the patients in these stories, although hospitals are engaged in the most serious business imaginable, you cannot find more laugh-out-loud behavior anywhere. This is because when people seek medical care they are vulnerable and reveal their true, inner selves. And, it turns out that the true, inner selves of most people are often some combination of fascinating, inexplicable, and ridiculous.”
McCully writes with “humor and humility,” one reviewer notes.
“Good Times in the Hospital asserts that it is unhealthy to take life too seriously, and a lighthearted temperament is just as important as a sound diet. This point of view makes it possible for one book to combine a rare glimpse into what goes on inside a hospital, an informative look at health care, and an entertaining collection of unlikely stories, poignant vignettes, and humorous anecdotes,” the description continues.
Switching gears from medicine to the world of music, author Matt Miller has taken on trends and traditions in New Orleans’ music scene in Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans (American Popular Music).
As Amazon describes, “In this book, the popular music scholar and filmmaker Matt Miller explores the ways in which participants in New Orleans’s hip-hop scene have collectively established, contested, and revised a distinctive style of rap that exists at the intersection of deeply rooted vernacular music traditions and the modern, globalized economy of commercial popular music. ”Like other forms of grassroots expressive culture in the city, New Orleans rap is a site of intense aesthetic and economic competition that reflects the creativity and resilience of the city’s poor and working-class African Americans,” Amazon details.
Matt Miller shares insight into popular music.
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