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Not so much a blog; just lots of books

Currently reading

The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Jamie Wahls, Sarah Pinkser, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rebecca Roanhorse, S. Qiouyi Lu, Darcie Little Badger, Kelly Robson, Nino Cipri, Amal El-Mohtar, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Alice Sola Kim, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Weinstein, Rich Larson
Progress: 13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
Alan Mcfadzean, Mark Denny
Progress: 125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P. Money
Conservation of Shadows
Yoon Ha Lee
Progress: 22%
Le premier jour
Marc Levy
Progress: 180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep
Progress: 99/480pages
The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Progress: 68/501pages

Reading progress update: I've read 165 out of 292 pages.

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime - Val McDermid

Alright, so according to McDermid in Chapter 6 (Fingerprinting), fingerprints are unreliable because they sometimes require subjective interpretation (with blurred samples etc) but in Chapter 7 (Blood Spatter and DNA), a blood spatter expert's drawings are more useful than photographs in court because of her experience allowing her to highlight important elements? Methinks there's some subjectivity going on. I'm not saying expert opinion and experience isn't important, but be consistent about it.

 

Also, this sentence bugs the heck out of me:

"Twenty-nine people were murdered, including several children and a pair of unborn twins."

Were twenty-nine or twenty-seven people murdered, including the pregnant mother of unborn twins? (Or however you want to phrase it, you should not be including the unborn in body counts no matter how horrific and unfortunate it is). I'm assuming for this to even come up the mother was near term but still.