judy melinek – Novels And Nonfiction

Anyone else super excited about 2017? I think many of us are more than ready to leave 2016 behind us, but I’m also really looking forward to a whole new year to reset, start over where needed, continue to grow and make progress.

If you read my post about my Goals for 2017 you’ll know that my word for the year is Renew. One of the small changes I’ve decided to make is to add general lifestyle links to my Links I Loved posts starting with next week. They will be links from non-bookish blogs I read and like on general topics like bullet journaling, meditation, exercise etc.. They’ll be at the end, so feel free to skip them if you prefer 🙂 And Happy New Year in advance to everyone!

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme (hosted by The Broke And Bookish) was a big one, Top Ten Books Of 2016, and there were so many great lists from which to choose from. Here are the lists I found most inspiring to continue to grow my endless Goodreads TBR list: Reading With Jenna, Novel Gossip, Vivacious Reads, She Reads Novels, Transported By Books, Dear Reader, Emerald City Book Review, Midnight Book Girl, Lindsay’s Library, and Sarah’s Bookshelves.

I think by now I’ve made my love for medical nonfiction abundantly clear on this blog. You can refer to my book list of my favorite scientific nonfiction books here for proof, as many of them are medical nonfiction titles.

When I heard about Working Stiff, I knew that it was going to be exactly my kind of ideal mix between instructive and gory. I read Mary Roach’s Stiff a few years ago and I therefore knew I didn’t have a problem reading about what happens to the body after death. I’m not really squeamish in that way, and to be honest post-death physical changes, rituals and techniques actually fascinate me rather than gross me out.

While in Stiff, Mary Roach explores the different ways in which your body can be used or disposed of after death, in Working Stiff, Dr. Melinek (in collaboration with her husband) discusses her life as a forensic pathologist and more specifically how autopsies are carried out when necessary to determine cause of death for legal or insurance purposes. If you’re like me and reading about decomposition sounds like a great way to spend a few hours, make sure to check out both.

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Links I Loved This Week – 12/30/16

Just Read: Working Stiff by Judy Melinek MD and T.J. Mitchell (Audiobook Review)

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