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hawkwing_lbBooks 2012: 123-124
123. Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex. Ace, 2012.
Brit Mandelo has already said pretty much everything I want to about this book. Is quite excellent, uprooting Bob from his usual Laundry work and sending him off to America, with freelance agents (who aren't exactly that) to investigate an evangelical megachurch. Sqaumous horrors meet religion, and the end of the world might be moving up...
Brilliantly done, as usual. Next book soon please!
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124. Linda Payne, With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion In Early Modern England. Ashgate, 2007.
While this book is framed as an investigation into how medical professions learned to be dispassionate - to be able to inflict pain in the course of therapy, and learn to deal with their patients' pain - really it's a cool, short (~150 pages) overview of developments in English medicine and anatomy between the late 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Fascinating and occasionally gruesome. Recommended.
Today, the sun shines. Yesterday it was pouring rain all day. Ah, weather.
123. Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex. Ace, 2012.
Brit Mandelo has already said pretty much everything I want to about this book. Is quite excellent, uprooting Bob from his usual Laundry work and sending him off to America, with freelance agents (who aren't exactly that) to investigate an evangelical megachurch. Sqaumous horrors meet religion, and the end of the world might be moving up...
Brilliantly done, as usual. Next book soon please!
nonfiction
124. Linda Payne, With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion In Early Modern England. Ashgate, 2007.
While this book is framed as an investigation into how medical professions learned to be dispassionate - to be able to inflict pain in the course of therapy, and learn to deal with their patients' pain - really it's a cool, short (~150 pages) overview of developments in English medicine and anatomy between the late 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Fascinating and occasionally gruesome. Recommended.
Today, the sun shines. Yesterday it was pouring rain all day. Ah, weather.
