[Beacon Staff]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Beacon Staff on Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:01 am

Anyone can join in, cyom. There's no registration required or special membership process.

If you would like to vote on which book should be the first one read by the group, please go over to the poll that is currently being run to to help select the book. Here's a link to the poll:

https://myelomabeacon.org/forum/tmb-book-club-first-book-poll-round-1-t3505.html

[Mona]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Mona on Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:15 am

I would be interested in joining the book club. I think it would be nice to have a mix of fiction and non-fiction cancer/other medical related books.

Thanks

[Tom184]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Tom184 on Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:31 pm

I am interested in joining the book club. I appreciate the efforts of all those who are getting this rolling!

Tom

[SorenDK]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by SorenDK on Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:25 pm

I´m not considering to join the book club, but remember a book from some years ago not mentioned on your list: "Living Proof" by a Michael Gearin-Tosh, Simon & Schuster, London, on the subject multiple myeloma. Looking forward to read your comments on the books.
Yours SorenDK

[Jonah]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Jonah on Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:42 pm

The full title of Gearin-Tosh's book is "Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny." It's about Gearin-Tosh's pursuit of alternative therapies to treat his multiple myeloma. I think the book has been mentioned in another discussion here in the forum about alternative therapies.

This article contains a review of the scientific claims made in a key chapter of the Gearin-Tosh's book:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630257/?report=classic

The review is written by two researchers in the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Their conclusion about the chapter related to scientific evidence in support of Gearin-Tosh's claims is that the chapter "gives a seriously misleading impression of both the scientific basis of alternative cancer medicine and the effectiveness of conventional approaches to myeloma."

[Diana]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Diana on Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:54 pm

Nancy, yes I am interested in the TMB book club. I would like a mix of fiction and non fiction. Thanks for this great idea.

[Nancy Shamanna]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Nancy Shamanna on Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:07 pm

Diana, If you go to the poll on which book to choose, you can have some input into what we will read to start with!

There is a mixture of fiction, short story fiction, biography, science, medicine and philosophy (there is probably a better description ... maybe inspirational). There is also a good idea about sourcing books also. Thanks!

[Joyce E.]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Joyce E. on Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:02 pm

I would like to join the book club but I will probably not read all the books as I am doing a lot of other reading as well as work.

Nancy, If you want to watch the movie, more power to you. I talked to a lady in her 60"s who saw the movie and said she did not like teenage romance movies - she went with a group. Since I keep see it being called a romance book that may be the emphasis in the movie, not the broader story I thought it was.

[Nancy Shamanna]

Re: TMB Book Club - Organization & book suggestions

by Nancy Shamanna on Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:16 pm

Hi Joyce E., the book club would only involve reading one book at a time, over the course of a month actually, so hopefully that wouldn't be too time consuming. Some months even reading one book seems like a lot, but other months I get more read. So it's all optional, and I hope you enjoy reading a selection at the book club.