The Miniaturist: A Novel
The Complete Thyroid Health and Diet Guide: Understanding and Managing Thyroid Disease
I'm reading this book right now because I had been feeling not well for many months and then one day, my body just crashed and I had to be hospitalized. It took a long time before one of my doctors made the right diagnosis, which prompted me going to the hospital. Upon admission, I had the vitals of a near-death person. My thyroid numbers were so high that they went beyond the highest number in the range of meansurement. All my electrolytes were way off. I was always a slim and healthy person, and all my regular checkups were good. So it took my doctors a while to find out what was wrong with me when I complained about slight discomfort in my guts. My persistent complaints about my guts sent me to do MRIs, ultrasounds, and CT scans on my guts. All the imaging came out good and my doctors began to think my compalaints were due to stress and could be psychological. They also suspected I just had a stomach flu that I just needed to wait...
The first 4 pages of this book is about a boring and weird funeral in the 17th century Amsterdam. It's boring in the sense that the English that describes the funeral is unlike the straightforward language that I'm used to when I read the contemporary American fictions. The tone of these pages just sound ancient and boring. Maybe that's exactly how a historical fiction should be written? I think the funeral is weird because there was this mysterious woman who was judging the funeral the entire time while staring at another mysterious girl at that funeral, whom I have no idea who she is or how she is related to the dead person. I had never been to Amsterdam, and I have a hard time visioning the setting of the funeral clearly. So far, this book isn't a page turner for me.
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