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Summary: this book makes me angry!
Review: This book appears in the fiction section of libraries, but it is really non-fiction, although the names have been changed to protect the innocent (or guilty!). I loved this book! The stories are often hilarious, sometimes poignant and always fascinating.We traveled through the Bryson City area when whitewater rafting on the Nantahala River several years ago. It's a beautiful area of the country. I really enjoyed Larimore's description of the beauty of God's creation in the hills of North Carolina. Why only 4 stars? I guess I wanted more from the end of the book. Now perhaps he could only write what he experienced, but I was dying to know what Dr. Larimore did after he left Bryson City. I also felt that I got to know his wife and daughter Kate and their new baby too. If you liked this book, you might want to check out Phil Gulley's "Home to Harmony" fiction series about small town life. If you're interested in more small town medicine stories, check out husband/wife team author Hannah Alexander's books. There are two series - start with "Sacred Trust". These are fiction, and with a little suspense and a little romance. Happy reading and I hope you take the time to check out my other reviews! God bless you!
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Summary: Wonderful stories from this first-year country doctor!
Review: This book appears in the fiction section of libraries, but it is really non-fiction, although the names have been changed to protect the innocent (or guilty!). I loved this book! The stories are often hilarious, sometimes poignant and always fascinating. We traveled through the Bryson City area when whitewater rafting on the Nantahala River several years ago. It's a beautiful area of the country. I really enjoyed Larimore's description of the beauty of God's creation in the hills of North Carolina. Why only 4 stars? I guess I wanted more from the end of the book. Now perhaps he could only write what he experienced, but I was dying to know what Dr. Larimore did after he left Bryson City. I also felt that I got to know his wife and daughter Kate and their new baby too. If you liked this book, you might want to check out Phil Gulley's "Home to Harmony" fiction series about small town life. If you're interested in more small town medicine stories, check out husband/wife team author Hannah Alexander's books. There are two series - start with "Sacred Trust". These are fiction, and with a little suspense and a little romance. Happy reading and I hope you take the time to check out my other reviews! God bless you!
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Summary: Bryson City Tales
Review: This is an excellent easy read, hard to put down, stories from a recent medical collge graduate as he expeirence life in a small NC town. From the interview process, to his first birth, to the first bith in a hospital, to being the team doctor for the local high school team. Dr. Larimore brings up all the interesting stories as he learns how to be a doctor in a small town. If you pick it up you will have a very hard time putting Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains down. One moment you will be laughing so hard your side will hurt as you here about birthing a cow..to tears in your eyes as Dr Larimore helps a young couple with the death of their first child that he had just delivered. If you enjoyed the All Creatures Great and Small series..you will love this!!
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: What a great book! I lived in Bryson City for 10 years, and worked at the Fryemont Inn. Coming there as an outsider - even when you you have relatives there, is a daunting task. Walter Larimore captures those first feelings of uneasiness as an entire community looks at you as an outsider. He also captures the amazing feeling you get when you are finally accepted as part of the community, and when you finally call the place home. This book has it all, I was laughing out loud when his first birth was not what he thought, and I was near tears when he had to console a young couple after a miscarriage. It also has enough of a spiritual side to seriously make you consider your Faith in what ever you believe in. Overall what a fantastic read, I could not reccomend it any higher.
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