We were without electrical power for some months and graduate school required me to read more complex pieces. After the devastation by Hurricane Maria, I decided that reading, especially books on the brain, was the appropriate thing to do.
It wasn’t until I entered the field of neuroscience that reading became a pertinent function for me. In fact, I only read two books – from cover to cover – in my five-year journey at the University of Puerto Rico. Even as an undergraduate I found ways to not read. Whenever a reading assignment was given in high school, I would always find a way to acquire a short summary or have a friend give me their take on the book. My approach to reading was that it was dreadful and too complex.
I was never a reader, in fact, before Sacks, I could count with one hand the books a had read. Like many of you, I discover Sacks through his books while entering a science field – neuroscience. Everything In Its Place Discovering Oliver Sacks His penetrative writings, combined with a love for Victorian-era references and a compassionate heart, makes this book a hard goodbye for anyone that has followed Sacks’ career. You get a sense of joyfulness while you glanced at every page without knowing what topic Sacks will tackle next. Moreover, new pieces of writings are introduced in the posthumous book.
The book contains an arrange of Sacks’ greatest hits, with essays from The New York Book Review, The New Yorker, and other magazines. Now, in his last book, Everything In Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, Oliver Sacks says his final goodbye with a collection of essays on such cases, plus, his other loves, chemistry, ferns, books, science, among other things.Įverything in its Place contains a gathering of writings – organized in part by his partner Bill Hayes – that demonstrate Sacks’ wide-ranging curiosity and masterful writing. “The questions of ‘telling’, of publishing detailed accounts of patients’ lives,” Oliver Sacks explains, “is a matter of great moral delicacy, fraught with pitfalls and perils of every sort.” For decades, the great neurologist has delighted us by presenting unique medical cases with wonderful and insightful writings and a good-hearted reflection on them. Main Photo by Emmanuel Rosado for Last Word on Sports inc.
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