The Werewolf M.D. Series is a Paranormal Fantasy novel by Taylor Haiden. Read summary below.
From audiobook one: What better way to save a patient than by biting them?
This aloof doctor’s methods are less than conventional.
A dark secret lies beneath these medical miracles.
Fresh out of nursing school, Isabella struggles to save her dying patients while vying for the attentions of a doctor who is too hot to handle.
Will Isabella fall for the charm of this hard-body physician with a kind smile and the “Miracle Doctor” reputation?
Can anything stop the double-edged virus as it courses through the small hospital in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana?
Contains high-heat scenes and action-based violence.
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4.0 out of 5 stars …a faith in other people a.k.a. sharing the struggle…
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016
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I liked the persistent & stubborn self-awareness of the main character, called Barry by his family & friends, who ostensibly needed to recognize & consent or accept his inner emotional self for a multitude of conflicting cultural reasons, as someone he might like to know & learn to love, in perpetual pursuit of his chosen life’s work – in the profoundly thorough (1995) book by the not yet President of the United States, Barack Obama entitled, Dreams from My Father – A Story of Race and Inheritance.
I had to often remind myself while I read the book that I shouldn’t think about the penultimate conclusion, or that this was a precursor & not yet the actual or final ending to this young man’s remarkable legacy, in the many years before he became President in 2009, almost 15 years after the book was written in 1995, but the idea of a super-star status was never mentioned as even a possible pipe-dream in his Memoir.
I like Mr. Obama that much better now, as just a regular guy after reading his 1st of 2 books, since I have never met the man aka POTUS (President of the United States) in-person & can only surmise his current character from watching him intermittently in the news on TV; still a dream of mine for the past 8 years while he has been in residence in the White House, mostly just to shake his hand & offer some hopefully sensible utterances with regard to my admiration & gratitude, as well as some polite & respective well-wishes for his post-presidential profession. While this book review is a pre-production preparation for a letter I plan to write to the President, just to let him know that he will certainly be missed, in my estimation, after the election this year (in 2016) – but then again that’s another story.
I’d like to think I can identify with Mr. Obama’s journey of self-discovery, on some level, because I too am tall & have always felt or been told by others that I am thereby different & something I needed to fix in my apparently awkward state-of-affairs, by fearful, if not exasperated mindsets, who seem to rely on regulation labels before they can proceed with the uniform business at-hand. And the fact that Mr. Obama is smarter than most, helped & sometimes hindered his ability to find an easier way to answer his personal questions about race & inheritance, or whatever professional roles he was academically qualified for or subconsciously restricted by society to pursue.
I liked his adamant persistence to find an acceptable answer to every problem he needed to solve. Although, I was not so patient with the community service line-item on his resume, especially at the Altgeld Gardens Public Housing development in Chicago, since I didn’t have the required patience needed to wait so long for worrisome people to help themselves confront the elected powers that be, in order to fix something in a state of historic disrepair that should have been a foregone conclusion of sorts, or a regular procedure of anticipatory repairs. In other words, the owners of the Altgeld Gardens should have audited their property regularly for any subsequent repairs, in my adolescent opinion.
I waited albeit virtually & altogether impatiently with Barry in the background while he admirably engaged with everyone & anyone involved, in order to kick-start the up-keep, but nobody cared apparently, as much as Barry was a complete stranger on a mission of self-help who seemed more compelled to get the job done than the careless or too careful local residents. I immediately wanted to start fixing imaginary broken stuff around the place, while we waited infinitum for the city emissaries, so snug & secure in their suits & ties to make a better-late-then-never & last-minute appearance, just to cut a regulation ribbon to start the overdue removal process of the unseen & imaginatively bizarre amount of dangerous asbestos from so many kids’ hazardous bedrooms.
However, Mr. Obama achieved what he had set out to do on his vision quest of sorts (picked a profession & found a job & followed-thru in pursuit of self-satisfaction) & he also discovered another more apparent avenue of interest to explore (at Harvard), which may not have happened had he not chosen to live in Chicago, in the first place, all within the fantastic status of a particular predicament aka within the altercation of the Altgeld Gardens situation.
As Barry says in the book; ‘The continuing struggle to align word & action, our heartfelt desires with a workable plan – didn’t self-esteem finally depend on just this? It was that belief which had led me into organizing….’
Another favorite line about what I consider the opposite of arrogance when Barry concedes to the moment at-hand & unquestioningly gives attention to a wider unknown audience apart from himself & somewhere out there in the unknown universe, which parenthetically made me suddenly twitch as I realized something comparable, in my shaky effort to stop & persuasively think about what might also be the woeful matter in my own world, when Barry reminds himself about respect & contemplates the task of requisite self-awareness, as he says; ‘Look at yourself before you pass judgement. Don’t make someone else clean up your mess. It’s not (always) about you.’ I had to add the word, (always), because most of us need to relinquish however many self-centered reasons, that it’s almost always about ourselves, once again in my guilty opinion!
There are lots of good words of wisdom within the book to ponder, still his personal scenarios might not be so familiar or quite comfy for everybody all of the time, but that is the measure of what a wise & eventually great man once imagined, somewhere I’m sure, about the best thing we should do as individuals on this overpopulated & getting-smaller-by-the-minute tiny blue planet, to stop for a moment & consider the alternative or aftermath, in fact and/or in faith, to sincerely aspire to help another similar or unlikeable person somehow find themselves, or get to wherever they’re going a little bit easier, in order that you too might finally find yourself by osmosis or acquaintance, in a safer place on the planet & not so forlorn anymore.
Barry realized early in the book that he needed to define his residence as a place to commence from a point of familiarity, while at the start of his journey of self-discovery – ‘And if I had come to understand myself as a black American, and was understood as such, that understanding remained unanchored to place. What I needed was a community, I realized….’
Another favorite line he acknowledges; ‘I can see that my choices were never truly mine alone – and that that is how it should be, that to assert otherwise is to chase after a sorry sort of freedom.’
‘Hate is the culprit,’ he later surmises & so this obviously contemporary idiom could also be the sub-title for this or another book review, perhaps.
A favorite line from his Grandmother always reminded him to look for the good; ‘There’s a bright side somewhere…don’t rest till you find it.’
I wondered afterwards how he would help his extended family in Kenya, whether that constitutes more of a personal commitment rather than a national prerogative & thereby a slight hindrance certainly while he’s the President. Still, I want him to help his brother, Bernard & the other little guy named Godrey, to define their place & purpose in the world, as that certainly seems to quantify a measure of selfless community service, as well as a prerequisite to help a select few family members, but not to give them everything for free without a lesson of sorts inserted, in order for them to help themselves, first & foremost!
And be sure to read the Preface & the Introduction, to appreciate the overall effort, either before or after you read the main story of <500 pages; for example on page xvi – ‘…what has found its way onto these pages is a record of a personal, interior journey – a boy’s search for his father, and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American.’
When I recommend this book to my friends who are in search of something spiritually similar, I always remind them that it’s not about the color of his skin; for example, as I see him (and maybe that’s easier for me to say, than it would be for Barry to agree with this superficial summation from a white man), but I always only see him as tall & smart! And that’s what I like about Mr. Obama, something I think we both have in common, for sure & that’s a justifiable start for wanting to help another person reach their goal aka for the good of all concerned, certainly?! – Review by Jack Dunsmoor, author of the book, OK2BG
Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwe and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: “I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a special occasion.”He also mused in a Globe and Mail essay: “Fighting over status/non-status, Métis, skin colour etc., only increases the sense of dysfunction in our community.
| Listening Length | 8 hours and 57 minutes |
|---|---|
| Author | Taylor Haiden |
| Narrator | Hugh Bradley |
| Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
| Audible.com Release Date | January 23, 2019 |
| Publisher | Brian S. Ference |
| Program Type | Audiobook |
| Version | Unabridged |
| Language | English |
| ASIN | B07N15KKJ7 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #279,955 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #6,249 in Paranormal Fantasy #7,896 in Paranormal Romance (Audible Books & Originals) #25,738 in Romantic Fantasy (Books) |
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