An Author's Life

When not writing Saverio spends time sticking needles into a caricature of Douglas Adams cursing the day he first read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.  Saverio no longer cares what the answer is (42), he is too busy trying to figure out the question using 'how' as the preface, not 'why'. 

When first gainfully employed, Saverio dragged his wife and later, growing family, around the U.S., with a pitstop in Quebec too, as he strove to make meaningful advances in the bio-pharmaceutical arena.  When not working, or playing with his children, or shoveling snow (think Canada not Texas), or writing articles for science journals in the wee small hours of the morning he either read a book or fell asleep.  If he listed all those tomes here, he would probably put each of you to sleep too.  A synopsis is this; start with Joseph Conrad, skip two pages, find Georges Simenon, skip to the last page (about two more pages in) and you will see Dashiell Hammett, Farley Mowat, Colin Dexter, Styron, Rowling, and finally Louise Penny.  I am very happy a friend turned me on to Penny’s work.

What was all that gibberish about?  Simple ... go read a book.  It's like health food and it can make you smile.

Little Bit of Faith

 

Saverio Monachino's new book is 'Little Bit of Faith'.

Anyone who handles a patient load knows how difficult some can be.  Dr. Selwood (a neuropsychologist) had a real doozy of a case assigned to her, Dr. Arthur McAiden.  When McAiden first began his outpatient stint at the Kessler Institute he had trouble stringing cognitive sentences together.  Selwood suggested he write his thoughts down, and so he did.  At first, he wrote of the accident itself, which had her wondering how he knew what he did.  Then his story moved on and intertwined his recovery process with what she believed to be a work of fiction.  If he was trying to have fun at her expense, she did not know.  Either way, it didn’t matter, but, when he moved on and began describing his take on the triune others have used to describe his faith, she wanted to file this away in the circular trash can beside her desk.  Then one of his characters came to life and paid her a visit.  While her patient had struggled to re-enter the three-dimensional space those living on earth call home, Dr. Selwood, in turn, now struggled to accept the continuum of life Arthur had presented to her. 

Published February 5, 2024

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