Friends of Judy
A Librarian, Suggested Readings on Body Parts
Art:
Morpho: Simplified Forms by Michel Lauricella
This book presents a unique perspective on the human body for beginning and professional artists to study and implement in their drawing work. The book simplifies the human body into basic shapes and forms.
Art:
A Wandering Eye: Travels with my Phone by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Flores-Vianna shares some 250 of his favorite images taken all over Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas—captured only with his smartphone—in the hope that viewers, seeing the world through his eyes, will learn to love these most wondrous of places as much as he does.
Classics:
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
The first original English prose pornography
Classics:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A condition much to be desired
Mystery:
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
An historical fantasy novel, exploring the sense of smell and its relationship with emotional meanings that scents may have
Mystery:
The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan
An Agatha Christie-esque mystery told by a ghost writer who says “I tell other people’s stories for a living. . .. I nip and tuck their excesses, soften their hard edges, polish whatever an armada of editors and publicists deem unsightly till it sparkles.”