I was thrilled to be led by these women through two extremely different books – one a fictional crime jaunt through a Polish village, another a series of stories illustrating the varied career of one of the world’s top forensic pathologists. Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009)īoth Sue Black’s All That Remains : A Life in Death and Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead bring you into the very forefront of a world-wise, brave, and morally-sure older woman. Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death (2018) The last couple of books that I have been reading elevated some of these themes for me into something more comprehensive that demonstrates two different answers to the question, Why are we alive and what is the point of it all? It swirls together into some really interesting but depressing themes. That my morbid interest leaked into my personal reading shouldn’t have surprised me but it has helped me form a more complete picture of things – see previous entries about the domestic criminal justice system in England, both fictional accounts exploring war crimes and biographical accounts of suffering in war, and medical and anatomical writings. I wonder if it stems from my recent project at work, where I was researching crime across the UK and barristers that specialise in prosecuting international crime, such as genocide and torture in developing countries.
This includes the more usual crime stories with violent ends and psychiatrically-challenged characters, but has also tended towards discussions of death, accounts of real or fictional crimes, and a lot about anatomy and dissection. Without intending it, I have been reading a lot of macabre things recently.
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