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Loading... A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightningby Gretel Ehrlich
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Jeeez, this has been hard going for such a tiny book. It sounded so fascinating, but sadly what I EXPECTED from it turned out to only be a small part of the book as a whole. When Ehrlich is talking about the science of lightning, about the mechanics of a lightning strike, about its effects on the human body, about the medicine behind recovery from such a devastating electrical surge - all this is SO interesting. Unfortunately a large proportion of the book is instead devoted to restless, self-indulgent, self-absorbed, faux-spiritual wallowing, and in these moments the author often plunges into prose so purple it actually made me laugh a few times. It was like reading bad teenage poetry. Suffice it to say, I wouldn't recommend this one. 2.5 stars, purely for the on-topic interesting bits. Haven't read it yet, but have read an excerpt somewhere. She describes, from first-hand experience, what it's like to be hit by lightning, then the necessity of having to, essentially, "go it alone" because it's a very rare doctor who knows anything at all about electrocution injuries. Looked fascinating. no reviews | add a review
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The part I found interesting is how she describes that we live in bodies that we don't actually know that much about. I had never really thought about how bit of a part electricity plays in our anatomy. ( )