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Still no bingo🙁 Good reading month still. Maybe April, I'll finally get a bingo😏 ##bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

An interesting and informative read.Dr. Melinek begins her journey of training to be a medical examiner in New York City,2001.As a new trainee,she relates this horrific experience with humbleness and gratitude for the first responders during 9/11.It was a sobering,deeply moving read for me also. The 9/11 section is basically one chapter of this terrific book.Told with such raw honesty and respect for the bodies she has worked on.A must read⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Peer support ftw!

Oooo yes I would subscribe for body facts.

Tomorrow.. you‘ll still be dead. ☠️

Interesting stuff in this book, especially the information about how bodies and remains were dealt with after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Since I'm still having a hard time focusing on reading, I'm giving nonfiction a go. I'm really intrigued in getting into the details of the subtitle which I accidentally covered in the picture: "two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner."

My 2019 book wrap up I have read a lot of books last year.
#readingthelibrary #readingmyownbooks #reading

Very interesting book about a doctor during her training to become a medical examiner. You probably should skip this one if you have a weak stomach regarding medical descriptions. However, if you can handle the “yuck factor,” it is a great read.

This is a GREAT (and TRUE) quote! “Minor surgery is surgery someone else has.”

Very interesting so far, but definitely not for the faint of heart.

Started this book during #BFCR1, and finished it during #BFCR2 🙌🏻 I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptive style, and found myself laughing at some stories & crying during others. Any true crime lover will love it! ♥️

Here‘s my lovely stack of audiobooks that I‘ve managed to finish while studying last night and this evening 😅 I‘m surprised my ears aren‘t sore from having my headphones in for so long,but I‘m not complaining because it‘s making the studying bearable. Favourite book is tagged, second up is Obsession. I‘ll give proper reviews and thoughts on each one later in the week hopefully. 🙌🏻 #FitWizards #BFCR2 #BFC #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

Listening to some more of this one before I fall asleep. I only have 5 days before I have to return it, so hopefully I can finish it in time. I‘m enjoying it so far, but find that it‘s not one I want to rush through. 💙
Audiobook 40 for #BookFitnessChallenge @wanderinglynn

This is a fantastic book.
My favourite part was her descriptive style she didn't hold back.
The bit about 911 was eye opening but was expected.
My type of book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#librarybook #readingbankholiday #reading #femaleauthor

" staying alive is mainly common sense"
Reading this great book. I just love it.
Blood, guts and gore with a touch of humour.

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This book was excellent. Her description of working 9/11 actually had me in tears.

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🚨WARNING: IS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC🚨

This book is not for the faint of heart. Melinek creates a vivid picture of her 2-year experience as a medical examiner in New York City, and does not hold back the details. As an Emergency Department RN, I found this book fascinating. Parts of this book are heart-wrenching, including Melinek‘s experience with 9/11 and Flight 587. Overall, I‘m glad I stepped out of typical boundaries to read this!

And this is why I‘m trying not to buy any books this year! 🤦‍♀️ This is my haul from the Book Outlet holiday sale. My first order ever from Book Outlet and a total #blameitonLitsy moment!! Their books are sooo cheap! Now I‘m trying to use my own mountain of books for reading challenge prompts this year. (So far, so good!)

Any reads you‘ve enjoyed in the stack?

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A quick and easy read of the memoir of a medical examiner. It might not be a pick for the faint hearted.

Fascinating look at the real life of a M.E. Not quite like the ones on TV. 😄

#BookMail Pt2 I‘m pretty sure this book is a recommendation from Simon Savidge from @SavidgeReads Written by Dr Judy Melinek, it recounts her first experience as a Medical Examiner/Pathologist What makes it interesting is she had only a month or so in her job with the New York ME before the towers fell in 2001. The next two years were her own version of ‘trial by fire‘. It looks very interesting, plus Simon is rarely wrong with his book choices.👍

A very interesting and entertaining (and reasonably quick) read about the life of a medical examiner in NYC. If you like Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell this is a great background on their profession (I know they're forensic anthropologists, but it is close).

Loved every second of it. I loved the journey into Judy‘s career and the stories behind the bodies she worked with.

PCT miles hiked: 2652
Books completed on trail: 18

This book was right up my alley. If you‘re a fan of Mary Roach books, you‘d love it. Gallows humor, science-y/medical, while not being crass or disrespectful of the subject matter.

The book club as interesting, but problematic. Melinek‘s description of the body after death and her work as a medical examiner was deeply fascination. Her discussion of suicide was problematic and could be triggering. But, if the medical field and true crime interest you, then I suggest giving this book a try. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Curious strangers at parties....

I didn't start off wanting to be a forensic pathologist...

Huge true crime fan over here. I like all the aspects of solving a crime, including forensic pathology. Very interesting read so far!

This is a fascinating memoir of two years in the life of a rookie New York City medical examiner. Hers "is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one". She moves from one interesting case to another in very gruesome detail.
As a lifetime lover of thriller fiction and movies, I found this book so captivating but even I had to take breaks when it got too detailed or difficult to read.

I wasn‘t sure I‘d ever find anything I loved as much as “Stiff” by Mary Roach, but here it is. The author recounts her journey to becoming a medical examiner after she decides she doesn‘t want to be a surgeon. She was working in New York on 9/11 and gives grisly details about the bodies that came across her table in her years there.

Okay, I‘m not doing so hot 😂. Only 17 hours and 10 minutes to go! HAHA. I did finish Working Stiff at least.

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TMI personal post, top surgery went great yesterday and I‘m just going to have a very lazy week reading while I recover now.

On the plane to Florida I started listening to this and for some reason medical descriptions are pretty calming to me. I just like knowing how things work! I‘m going to keep listening and chilling out until my post op appointment.

Feeling so happy and thankful though.

#nonfiction #medical #lgbtq #trans #topsurgery

Wow, this was really good and endlessly fascinating. The DM01 chapter was harrowing (Sept 11th). Some of the story timelines were confusing but that didn‘t really detract much.

4 weeks later and I‘m still barely into this. But so far I LOVE it! So fascinating! I‘ve been in a reading funk but have new focus to finish this one up. I need to get through 3 more after this so I don‘t drop below my books per year minimum! (40 is my “worst” this is #37)

I have a fascination with medical examiners! Switching over to some non-fiction.

I really struggled to get past the author's comments about suicide (having been suicidal myself, I assure you that commenting that suicide is selfish is dangerous and unhelpful to people in that state). As for the rest of the book, I found some parts a little boring and redundant. I felt that the author added too many personal anecdotes. The chapters about 9/11 and anthrax were interesting.

Why is the author making so many reckless and dangerous comments about about suicide? I've enjoyed this book up until this chapter. I'm trying to remember that she is speaking from a place of hurt about her father's death, but as someone who has been suicidal I'm having issues.

#fallintobooks #occupationinthetitle

Not for the faint of heart, my current audiobook read works well for this prompt!

July Reading Stats
Total reads: 15
Favorites: The Essex Serpent, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Working Stiff

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I heard an interview with Dr. Melinek and her husband on a podcast recently and this book sounds very interesting. I can't wait to read it! #death 💀 #junebookbugs

Two books about what happens to your body after #death.

#junebookbugs

An interesting and vivid look at life in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York. The section about 9/11 is fascinating and upsetting at the same time. Worth reading if you want to know what being a medical examiner is really like.

#bookanddinner, St. Patrick's Day edition 🍀 My BF's classic pasta and chickpea dish and a Harp lager. Slainte! 🍻

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for The Accessory Spleens! 🙌👏🤘🏼

I am highly pleased by all these books by women on my TBR pile. Especially looking forward to Working Stiff and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which are about women in professions that might be considered more traditionally male.
#marchintoreading day 15: she persisted

I only read 4 books this month (these and Confess) and I loved all three of these. #bestofjanuary #readjanuary

It pays to count to two 😂 Dr. Melinek on writing detailed reports and carefully cataloging organs in an autopsy. #page24 #readjanuary