The Life List of Adrian Mandrick by Chris White
The Life List of Adrian Mandrick Chris White Hardbound, 274 pages This book is a novel but it feels like it's a biography or something. This tells about the psychological life of Doc Mandrick, an anesthesiologist, who avoids pain, physical and otherwise. He is also a record-holder birder, thus the title. He is juggling his marriage and family life, professional life, the darker side of life that is his drug addiction and a revelation by his father when he was a teen, a birder who had 800 plus sightings and held the third spot among the elite birders. It is almost all throughout a soliloquy about his struggles. I have not made a research if the regulated/prescription drugs he used were really be taken but then could really mask his addiction or make him functional. Despite that, you will love him a bit for his determination to be a good father and husband. His birding is part of his life, an interest he took after his mother w...