Acquisitions ~ And WHAT ARE YOU READING? Anything goes ~ 2017

[Erin]

Death Professional is apparently a British slang term for pathologist.

[Rita]

Thanks Erin. The Brits have some very different names for pathologists. They call their operating room a theatre. That is how they spell it too and so do we in Canada. Thanks again Erin!

[Craig]

Operating "theatre" makes sense, given the 16th-18th-century tradition of dissection theatres, with bleachers to accommodate viewers. There's a beautiful one in Bologna, Italy (pictured on Wikipedia), where, during Carnival, doctors publicly dissected cadavers while a masked and costumed audience watched in queasy fascination and, in a nearby chapel, priests said Mass for the soul of the dismembered at the attending physician's expense.

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

I'm reading The Revolution of Robert Kennedy. Its about the last 5 years of his life.

I'm also reading Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine. Its a memoir of British "Death Professional" (although that sounds like she's a serial killer).


Reposting to add links.

[Erin]

Thanks. I'm on the app.

[Fishface]

TOTALLY absorbed in the wonderful Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder. I thought it was going to be about a different murder; I had never heard of this one before, as it turns out.

[Fishface]

And -- in the usual way! -- it turned out that when I started reading Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, it started out being what I expected -- a good book to help me work through some private-school issues -- but then it rapidly evolved into a crime biography.

[Rita]

Craig wrote: "Operating "theatre" makes sense, given the 16th-18th-century tradition of dissection theatres, with bleachers to accommodate viewers. There's a beautiful one in Bologna, Italy (pictured on Wikipedi..."

Actually Craig, I thought the same thing too. Fascinating stuff.

[Rita]

Fishface wrote: "And -- in the usual way! -- it turned out that when I started reading Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, it started out being what I expected -- a goo..."

I just put this one on my new list Fishface.

[Rita]

I am currently reading Triangle by Irene Pence. I read this a long time ago and I am caught up in it the second time around.

[Bellezza, Gif Princesa]

Yesterday I was in B&N and since I obviously don't have enough true crime to read I got "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson.

[Fishface]

Oooh, I'm interested to see what you think of that one...

[Bellezza, Gif Princesa]

Fishface wrote: "Oooh, I'm interested to see what you think of that one..."

I've already started it. But I left my glasses at home when I went out tonight so ..... **rats and double dang**

[Fishface]

Bellezza wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Oooh, I'm interested to see what you think of that one..."

I've already started it. But I left my glasses at home when I went out tonight so ..... **rats and double dang**"

Rita is REALLY starting to rub off on you.

*runs away crying*

[Bellezza, Gif Princesa]

Fishface wrote: "Rita is REALLY starting to rub off on you.

*runs away crying* "

Well she keeps getting the trivia answers correct so I though, what the hey. I'm not hiding in any closets though.

[Fishface]

This forum would have a completely different flavor if Rita were running things. You grade books a lot harder than she does, for starters.

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

Fishface wrote: "This forum would have a completely different flavor if Rita were running things. You grade books a lot harder than she does, for starters."

Is that a good or bad thing?

***crosses fingers***

[Fishface]

I'm sure it keeps the authors on their toes. It's too much to ask that ALL readers love their work without stint or boundary.

[Rita]

Craig wrote: "Operating "theatre" makes sense, given the 16th-18th-century tradition of dissection theatres, with bleachers to accommodate viewers. There's a beautiful one in Bologna, Italy (pictured on Wikipedi..."

Craig not only that, you can't send one's ashes to someone that doesn't live there. I found that out when my sister passed away. Plus they don't address operating doctors as doctors...just plain Mr. It sure is different....eh?

[Rita]

Fishface wrote: "This forum would have a completely different flavor if Rita were running things. You grade books a lot harder than she does, for starters."

Yes Fishface, you are dead-on there. I kind of blurr the truth and even when I find a book rather boring I don't like to hurt the author's feelings. I know it is silly and I don't know why I do that.

Belleza, the answer to your question...good or bad? Of course BAD! The stress of it all alone would send me to the looney bin as I would panic if I didn't meet the expectations. This is why we have admins like you Belleza, Fishface, Koren and I think there is another admin? I'm not sure.

Actually, I think I do know why I do that. DANG and DOUBLE DANG!

[Rita]

Well, I almost forgot to post my new read I just started. I am reading
An Invisible Man by Stephanie A. Stanley. I haven't read anything by her and so far it is really good. It's about....whatsitsface...
oh yes, Derrick Todd Lee. Charming...

[Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa]

Rita wrote: "Well, I almost forgot to post my new read I just started. I am reading An Invisible Man: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Who Got Away With a Decade of Murder by Stephanie A. Stanley. I haven't read anything by her and so far it is really good. It's about....whatsits..."

Oh definitely someone's dream date. Oh and I was asking Fishface if my being a tougher book rater than you was a good or bad thing, not if you being an admin would be good or bad.

[Craig]

Rita wrote: "Craig wrote: "Operating "theatre" makes sense, given the 16th-18th-century tradition of dissection theatres, with bleachers to accommodate viewers. There's a beautiful one in Bologna, Italy (pictur..."

"Doctor" versus "Mister": I wonder if it has anything to do with something similar to the practice (50 years ago--it may have changed by now) of only calling Oxford or Cambridge PhDs "doctor" and any other PhDs "mister." (I think an exception may have been made for Harvard PhDs.)

[Fishface]

Rating books is an extremely personal decision.

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blood hits the wall fiona mason book 4 by judith cranswick they are light hearted crime novels fiona tour guide always ends up in a murder investigation with her touring group.i have read them one after another i have one book in series to go after the one i am readingBlood Hits the Wall

[Bonnie]

I am reading Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer by M. William Phelps, who is one of my favorite authors. So far I really like it. I am also reading Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt, which is also good so far.

[Rita]

Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "I'm reading The Revolution of Robert Kennedy. Its about the last 5 years of his life.

I'm also reading Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla ..."

The Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors looks fascinating. On my list. Good one Belleza!!!!!