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Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. But a strange thing happened one day on a plane that was grounded at the Minneapolis airport for six horrible, foodless, airless hours. A young man on a trip with his classmates suddenly became dizzy and pale because he hadn’t eaten in many hours, and there was no food left on the plane. Without thinking about it, Jane gave him the candy bar that she had in her purse. A short time later the color had returned to his cheeks, the boy was laughing again with his friends, and Jane realized that this one small act of kindness—helping another person who was suffering—had provided her with comfort and a sense of well-being.

It was shortly thereafter that this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician, eventually coming to be known as Ambulance Girl . Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,” but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital, where she attended to a schizophrenic kickboxer who had tried to kill his mother that morning and a stockbroker who was taken off the commuter train to Manhattan with delirium tremens so bad it killed him.

Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs and finally bonds with the burly, handsome firefighters who become her colleagues. At the end, she is named the first woman officer of the department—a triumph we joyously share with her.

Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” It is a book to be treasured and shared.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. But a strange thing happened one day on a plane that was grounded at the Minneapolis airport for six horrible, foodless, airless hours. A young man on a trip with his classmates suddenly became dizzy and pale because he hadn’t eaten in many hours, and there was no food left on the plane. Without thinking about it, Jane gave him the candy bar that she had in her purse. A short time later the color had returned to his cheeks, the boy was laughing again with his friends, and Jane realized that this one small act of kindness—helping another person who was suffering—had provided her with comfort and a sense of well-being.

It was shortly thereafter that this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician, eventually coming to be known as Ambulance Girl . Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,” but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital, where she attended to a schizophrenic kickboxer who had tried to kill his mother that morning and a stockbroker who was taken off the commuter train to Manhattan with delirium tremens so bad it killed him.

Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs and finally bonds with the burly, handsome firefighters who become her colleagues. At the end, she is named the first woman officer of the department—a triumph we joyously share with her.

Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” It is a book to be treasured and shared.

From the Hardcover edition.

• 作者：澄澈 发布时间：2022-05-21 19:39:29

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• 作者：焦糖馆馆 发布时间：2013-08-10 12:33:09

  当你发现十年前弹过曲子竟有重大指法错误，这就像。。将自己花费十年构建的城堡推倒重盖的痛苦

• 作者：袭击曲奇店 发布时间：2022-03-15 22:08:36

  【2022第7本】确实读起来没有精进1收获那么多，相比之下精进1干货更加密集，语言也更加洗练。分享一下读这本的收获:1.注意力涣散意味着我们无法聚焦在那些真正有价值的信息上，长期来看将大大降低我们的竞争力和幸福感。2.做事如果只靠外在动机驱使，滑坡谬误就会常见。3.内在动机驱使下的人会把失败当做机会。4.分散学习，多次调取，逐步强化:每天只学那么一点，在每天的其他时间里，我们其实是在潜意识里消化这些知识的(所以教师不用太焦虑教学进度呀)

• 作者：維小詞 发布时间：2019-08-13 23:24:17

  不经意看微博还可以，作为一本书出版还是有点牵强

• 作者：dw0022 发布时间：2017-06-29 08:12:19

  很不成熟的一本书，像是半成品

• 作者：Fal Conde 发布时间：2017-12-22 19:57:04

  冷饭炒炒 么啥意思

• 读《历史的基因：英国》-英国王室的发展史

  作者：smiling 发布时间：2021-10-06 12:08:41

  首先，请一定要记得，这是一本日本人写的英国历史。记得看《菊与刀》之前，最吸引我的也是因为美国人写日本历史。这种从旁观者的角度来写的书，视角会与本国人写本国历史稍有不同，非常有意思。

  这本书的脉络是围绕英国王室来写的，这是英国历史避不开的中心话题。而作为至今还存在的、为数不多的王室，也是最受世界关注的王室，英国王室的发展在本书中介绍的非常清楚。我在读书的过程中，终于理解了英国与法国、德国之间非常复杂的关系。也了解了我非常喜欢的gentleman的由来。

  不过英国王室的称号好没意思，都是用***几世来的，对比我们古代中国皇帝的年号，是显得简薄了一点。另一方面，也反映了英国的王室其实就只是在那几个家族之间轮转，甚至他们还有亲戚关系，也反映了英国阶级制度的根深蒂固。

  温馨提示，如果你觉得读下来比较绕，看着这么写国王的名字云里雾里，那就写下来吧，用时间线来表示一下，就会非常明白了。

• 这本书看完，我震惊到失/眠，后悔看太迟

  作者：换换 发布时间：2024-01-11 23:30:39

  

  “金色é罗斯”系列经典丛书一套有五本，读完了康·帕乌斯托夫斯基的《金蔷薇》，今天开始读安德烈·普拉东诺夫的中短篇小说集《莫斯科的小提琴》，跟着他悲悯又撕裂的文字，让我们走进他那个时代，感受那个社会的流浪者和边缘人。

  

  安德烈·普拉东诺夫被认为是é罗斯蕞神秘的作家之一、被研究的蕞不透彻的作家之一，他的卓/越写作才能几乎影响了所有的苏联作家。读他的作品，我需要边读边思考，等读完一遍再回过头来的时候，会发现里边的更多的东西，挖掘这些也是一种别样的乐趣。

  

  本书收录了作者12篇小说。

  《内向的人》这篇看的很沉重、很yā抑，普霍夫就是一个普通的火车机工，刚安葬完妻子，就被要求去工作。为了这次任务，他们牺牲了好几位同事，但是没人在乎他们的sǐ活，只会有军官拿槍指着他们，逼迫他们继续干活。而长官却可以只一人乘坐整列火车。

  

  去参加革mìng，普通的他们依然是普通的不能再普通的小卒子，没有人在乎他们，更没有人记得他们。站争使人们失去了太多太多，使社会落后了太多太多。真希望往后的每一天都是和平的每一天。

  

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  他笔下蕞多的题材是“孤.儿”，他们是谢苗、是尼基塔、是菲拉特、是萨尔托利乌斯、是普霍夫......他们都是孤·儿。他们努力找寻，找的是自己未知的前途，寻的是自己曾经失去的根。他们的孤独寂寞、憋闷悲怆，在作者的笔下都是那么的真实，就像他在书中写的:“智慧或者心灵，汲取的并不是自有的营养，而是他们不会知道的东西。”

  

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