19_crows | What I'm reading, about to read

I finished The Emperor of Maladies, the book about cancer and cancer research. As a layperson who doesn't know a lot about this, and a person who hasn't had much experience with friends or relatives with cancer or any experience with it myself (except for one puny skin cancer), I found it very interesting. The science was on a level I could understand, which was good. A friend felt it was badly edited and I agree a bit, but not enough to bother me.

I've just started Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind, by Margalit Fox, about a village in Israel where so many people are deaf that everyone uses sign. She's the terrific writer of many obits in the New York Times.