A Body at Work

I read a book called Body of Work. Can you tell which one I read? I get the pictures from Amazon after I've finished reading. They have bigger thumbnails. I bet the guy on the left does, too. When I did the search for the name, both of these came up. That guy on the left is a DVD, unrated. I'm just glad he visited my humble blog.

Of course, I read the book on the right. This is about a medical student and her dissection class. It was interesting reading. She doesn't just tell about the parts of the body, but how the experience affected her and her thinking. She was an English teacher before she decided to take up medicine, so she has a better grasp of the language than most doctors. I would recommend this if you are interested in the sciences, death, history of dissection, how your body works or if you are considering donating your body to science. That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea, after reading how helpful it is to get in and peel back the layers. Yea, my mind is drifting to the picture on the left. Peeling back the layers.


I recently finished the book Restless. Following the theory of alternating between fiction and non-fiction, this was fiction. As you can see by the big bold letters, this was written by a man. It is about an English woman and her mother. I think Boyd did a good job of writing from a woman's perspective. That was pretty surprising. This is a story about the mother's life in WWII and the daughter's life now. Chapters alternate. The mother's story was very interesting, she being a spy and all.
The daughter has a more ordinary life. It seems that Boyd tried to match them in intrigue, but it was hard to compare WWII spying and an Iranian anti-Shah rally in the 80's. You do expect to see someone's head blown up at any moment, but...
I would recommend this. It is on the best seller's list for fiction. It is well written and it won't win any prizes. But you will enjoy reading it none-the-less.