Until I Find You by John Irving

John Irving needs a therapist, and fast. This book rehashed many of the same issues he has addressed in other books, focusing on gender identity with a significant dose of unabashed child molestation. I found this book to be a couple hundred pages too long as well as unsatisfying. The main character was too detached to be sympathetic and the weird characters and their weird pastimes just too plain weird.

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

I liked this book; I have a strong stomach. This book is about how cadavers are used, including gross anatomy labs, organ transplant, scientific testing, grave robbing, and 2000 years of history on this. Only one or two parts of the book made me gag, and overall I learned a lot and enjoyed the author's witty prose and human responses to her research.

Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen

Recommended by Mer A. This was not a great book. It was about an alternative female rabbi who becomes romantically entangled with the son of someone she is helping in the hospital. I didn't find the narrator's voice to be authentic, and I didn't think the situations she found herself in were realistic.