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"I was pleased to be asleep. I didn't enjoy being on the other side of the fence. For me, it wasn't just an operation. It was the end of an era."
To be honest: there was nothing inherently wrong with Stephen Westaby's Fragile Lives. In fact, a person interested in cardiac surgery and non-fiction in general would have probably enjoyed this. But for me, nothing clicked.
I guess part of this is due to my dislike of non-fiction. I am interested in surgical stories, but I'm not utterly fascinated by them. It's the drama that keeps me coming back to Grey's Anatomy lol! So I have to chalk up part of my low rating to that fact.
But something was just off. I wasn't into the book. For all of Westaby's attempts, it was hard for me to connect with the characters. I felt bad for them, but his manner-of-fact descriptions left it more to the reader to imagine what the patients were like, in a way.
To be honest: there was nothing inherently wrong with Stephen Westaby's Fragile Lives. In fact, a person interested in cardiac surgery and non-fiction in general would have probably enjoyed this. But for me, nothing clicked.
I guess part of this is due to my dislike of non-fiction. I am interested in surgical stories, but I'm not utterly fascinated by them. It's the drama that keeps me coming back to Grey's Anatomy lol! So I have to chalk up part of my low rating to that fact.
But something was just off. I wasn't into the book. For all of Westaby's attempts, it was hard for me to connect with the characters. I felt bad for them, but his manner-of-fact descriptions left it more to the reader to imagine what the patients were like, in a way.