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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Sing, Unburied, Sing in Books

Oct 3, 2017  
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.5 (6 Ratings)
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A Toni Morrison novel updated for modern times
This is no doubt a modern day version of reading a Toni Morrison novel. From the magical realism aspect to social issues affecting African Americans, this novel is both haunting and almost poetic.

The story follows a family on their way to a prison, in which the children's white father is due to be released. The teenage boy and his three year old sister are mostly dependent on one another as well as their grandparents Pop and Mam. The mother Leonie is absent, and rather aloof in their upbringing, forcing her son, Jojo to bring up his kid sister. In between are disturbing stories featured in flashbacks and ghostly apparitions, The novel explores interracial relationships, police brutality and even post traumatic stress disorder to a degree.

While it can seem haphazard, going back and forth in time, and random narratives appearing throughout, it leaves the reader with a sense of unease and despair at the violent nature of society. A truly intriguing read.
  
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tarabu42 (7 KP) rated The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine in Books

Oct 29, 2017 (Updated Nov 2, 2017)  
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris | 2017 | History & Politics
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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A detailed, visceral, cutting exploration, whose accessible style opens the world of early surgical developments to all readers. (0 more)
Not for the squeamish, the suffering of previous generations is laid bare as the path to modern germ theory is developed. (0 more)
The Butchering Art (2017)
Another reviewer said of Dr. Fitzharris' work that its one failure was its accessible style. As far as I am concerned, that is only a fault in a work if its author wants to keep it out of the eyes, hands, and minds of the general public. Like some of the best historians and investigative journalists of decades gone by, Dr. Fitzharris approaches her subject with an open candor, accepting him warts and all, and laying out his life as it happened, her only agenda being the service of history.

This book will make every reader grateful for the medicine of the modern age and will make you pause as you remember the lives of those passed before us who made the accomplishments from which we benefit possible.