Ive started reading his.blog too
Have you got a link to that please?
He also has a podcast which i havent listened to yet
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I understand most of the words on their own… but the sum of them seems greater than my understanding. Something something improving donor selection for transplant medicine so there is less rejection of transplants? So is this more programming or more medicine? Good luck defending it!
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Congratulations! And good job with the complicated statement - semicolon - complicated statement thesis title 
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I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but a catchy title is a promising start! 
Best of luck! 
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Full colon! I would never be as so pretentious as to use a semicolon.
The title really isn’t that complicated. In lay persons terms it’s “Genes in transplants: Looking at different types of a gene to make transplants better”. It’s verging upon tautological.
It’s quite simple in its science. Look at the genes, group people together by the different type of genes. See which group is less bad. Say the one where fewer people go bad is probably a good thing that we should do more of. Sorted! I feel quite lucky to have gotten such an easy project haha
(The implications are far more complicated, and we still don’t know why it makes a difference. It really has no right to. SCIENCE!)
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Great work. Well done for completing.
It means a lot to me; my Dad had a full bone marrow transplant and my sister works for Antony Nolan
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It looks like a plausible title for Molecular Biology of the Cell, one of the journals I copy edit . . .
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I was just thinking the opposite. If it was the start of another book, then it’s not as “exclusive” as not putting it in any other copies of the physical book implies. Whereas if it’s some kind of bonus epilogue that’s good and actually improves on the story in the book itself meaningfully, that’s much more annoying.
Totally get and agree with your point.
To be clear I meant the start of something in the setting a trend sense. But the start of the next book would be a way to do it that I would be totally fine with.
Ultimately I suppose the key is if the chapter is good then it’s gatekeeping this content which is bad.
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Gotcha. Fair enough.
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Finally managed to strike a vein of good books, reviews coming up soon on my blog: Scott/Graham Silver Bullet, bes Shahar Hellflower, Devenport The Night Shifters. I’ve had to write a lot of negative reviews lately and while there’s some fun to be had slipping the knife in it’s not why I read or why I review; I was worried that my general mild depression was removing the enjoyment, but apparently this is not the case.
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I’ve had to switch to brain candy books this year but I’ve finally clicked with a book again this week … it feels good doesn’t it?
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Just finished the new Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace, and working my way through the latest KJ Parker, How to Rule and Empire and Get Away with it. Really enjoyed the Abercrombie, the story has built nicely on his last novel, looking forward to seeing how he wraps the trilogy up.
Next up, I’ve got two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s non-Holmes books - the complete Brigadier Gerard and The White Company. The former is a collection of short stories about the vainglorious fictional Brigadier Gerard, an officer of Napoleon’s hussars (the stories are basically the inspiration for Flashman). However, there is more than a passing similarity between the Gerard’s exploits and the memoirs of the real-life Napoleonic light cavalry officer Baron Marcellin Marbot. The White Company is another of Conan Doyle’s historical adventure novels, this time about the White Company led by Hawkwood during the Hundred Years War.
Conan Doyle apparently thought much more highly of his historical adventures than those of his famous detective, although they’ve seemingly been forgotten these days.
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There’s a new Abercrombie? I’m there…
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Likewise. I’d failed to notice the Half A King series had finished and he’d returned to the dark humour.
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Did you not enjoy the Half a King series? I thought it was quite amusing in a dark way.
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Bounced off Volume 1. The central character was just too miserable for me.
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