For the November installment of our monthly book club meeting, we're reading Tell Me Where It Hurts by Nick Trout.

From amazon.com:

Far from the rustic environs of James Herriot’s Yorkshire Dales comes an equally heartwarming, yet high-tech, memoir of a veterinarian. Trout is a staff surgeon at a large veterinary practice in Boston and writes with equal facility of the clinical side of animal surgery and the emotional side of the human bond with animals. Couching his stories as a 24-hour "day in the life of," the author has squeezed his reminiscences into a single day to capture "the pace, the rush, and the intensity of all that is new in twenty-first-century veterinary medicine." As he moves from the 2:00 a.m. emergency surgery on a dog with a twisted bowel to an outwardly male boxer with an undescended testicle and an infected uterus, or euthanizes an old Labrador retriever, Trout looks back on earlier cases, muses on such subjects as the ethics of euthanasia and the costs of modern veterinary procedures, and wonders at the different ways the love shared between owner and animal is expressed. This is an addictively readable chronicle of what it means to be a veterinarian today. -Nancy Bent, Booklist

Amazon has paperback at $10 and used available from $1.

As always, this is more a social gathering than anything else, so feel free to attend even if you haven't finished - or started - the book! And also as always, we'll have a dinner ahead of time; I'll post something suitable soon!