Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance, Tom Reynolds, 2008
What do you think about when you hear an ambulance's siren? Do think about your favorite television show—Grey's Anatomy, House, or Scrubs? Do you feel frustrated by the inconvenience to your schedule as you slow your car and pull off to the right? Do you consider the family who has just gone through a sudden, unexpected tragedy?
Tom Reynolds details the fascinating, heartbreaking world of an ambulance worker with wit, cynicism, and sympathy in Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance.
Through the joy of childbirth, the sorrow of unexpectedly losing a parent, or the frustration felt toward people who refuse to take care of themselves, Reynolds transitions easily through a wide range of emotions and circumstances.
Though all of Reynolds's stories occur in a small section of London's East End, his blog has stunned readers with his universal feelings of empathy and disappointment.
The more than 300 tragicomic entries in Blood, Sweat, and Tea will make readers laugh out loud, cry a page later, and come away from the book with a renewed feeling of gratitude for the things most often taken for granted. As Reynolds points out in his blog, "If I'm still breathing then I realize that things can't be that bad."
5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 275 pages, softbound, ISBN: 978-0-7407-7119-4, BB4510 / $12.99
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