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Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic by Anthony Almojera
3.0
This book chronicles New York City's harrowing descent into the throes of the Covid pandemic through the eyes of a frontline paramedic.
It's also profoundly autobiographical, taking almost the first half of the book to cover the author's childhood trauma and family background before actually getting to the point where we start talking about Covid.
Overall, it was a middling experience. While the latter half of the book was interesting, the whole thing suffers from the building, unsettling sense that the author is, perhaps, a weirdo.
It's also profoundly autobiographical, taking almost the first half of the book to cover the author's childhood trauma and family background before actually getting to the point where we start talking about Covid.
Overall, it was a middling experience. While the latter half of the book was interesting, the whole thing suffers from the building, unsettling sense that the author is, perhaps, a weirdo.