title: This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
author:  Adam Kay 
description: <DIV>&ldquo;Hilarious and heartbreaking . . . I howled, yelped and occasionally choked with laughter . . . This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Times</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;If you are at all squeamish, I recommend you read <I>This is Going to Hurt</I> lying flat on your back. More than once on my commute, as I raced through Adam Kay&rsquo;s hilarious, heartbreaking book, I felt the legs begin to wobble . . . some entries are so funny, they make you howl.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Daily Telegraph</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;The humour is unflinching in its darkness . . . Yet I did laugh. A lot. Kay is a skilful, muscular writer, his narrative swinging from laugh-out-loud anecdotes to tales of sheer horror. The book&rsquo;s title is harrowingly apt.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Independent</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;We know that junior doctors have it rough. But it takes Kay&rsquo;s account of his 97-hour-week struggle to see just how rough. . . hilariously gruesome.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Sunday Times</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;Shocking, sad, funny and alarming . . . A truly laudable book, hilarious, moving and caustic . . . The patient stories impact and linger in the mind. . . Kay&rsquo;s book is vital and timely.&quot; &mdash;<I>Scotsman</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;A heartening, laugh-out-loud confessional . . . Kay&rsquo;s warts-and-all account will not only bring plenty of laughs but also delivers a moving report.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Financial Times</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;If you read one book this year, make it Adam Kay&rsquo;s hilarious, horrifying, heartbreaking insight into the life of a junior doctor . . . an eye-opening and brutally funny insight . . .What a terrible loss Adam Kay is to the medical profession. But what a tremendous gain for your bookshelf.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Daily Express</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Adam Kay writes with scalpel-sharp wit . . . a genital-warts and-all account of what life is really like for junior doctors . . . Witty, wise and frequently moving.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Mail on Sunday</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;I found myself laughing in horror over and over, but Kay&rsquo;s poignant final act brought me to tears. This is a valuable window into the life of a junior doctor that should be required reading for all.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Stylist</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;Hilarious . . . not just laugh-out-loud funny, but precise, upsetting and utterly sobering for anyone at all connected with the NHS.&quot; &mdash;<I>Spectator</I> Books of the Year<BR /> &#160;</DIV>
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  _THE ROCK STAR’S SECRET BABY_
  
  
  _(Rock Stars in Disguise: Cadell)_
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  By: Blair Babylon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _THE ROCK STAR’S SECRET BABY_
  
  
  _(Rock Stars in Disguise: Cadell)_
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  By: Blair Babylon
  
  
    
  
  
  **The first time that Dr. Andy Kumar saw Cadell Glynn—** all six feet, four
  inches of him, tribal tattoos winding around his arms, fingertips deeply
  callused from years of pressing steel guitar strings, dressed in leather pants
  and a tee shirt ripped at the neck that let the tattoos on his muscular
  shoulders peek through, blue-tipped black hair spiraling in curls and swaying
  near his shoulders, and fear and helplessness filling his dark eyes at the
  sight of his sick child hooked up to two different IVs and crying— **she had
  known that he was going to be trouble.**
  
  
    
  
  
  Mr. Glynn had interrogated Andy and the other surgeons, asking why, and when,
  and how, and would it hurt Emily too much.
  
  
    
  
  
  He had calmed down some after that first week. Some.
  
  
    
  
  
  After a few weeks, 