Audiobook Review: Bonk by Mary Roach
– nrlymrtl, 12/26/2010 I know. I strayed outside my normal pool of comfortable reading areas – historical fiction, travelogues, swords and dragons, space adventures. Truthfully, it was my sister’s...
View ArticleHow Much I Don’t Know: Cadavers
– nrlymrtl, 07/20/11 If you feel like you aren’t useful in life, you can most certainly be useful in death, without any exertion on your part. I recently finished the audiobook Stiff by Mary Roach....
View ArticleTreeBook Review: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
I learned and I laughed. I read another chapter, quirked my eyebrow once again, and laughed some more. Packing for Mars is my third Mary Roach book and it is just as intriguing and entertaining as the...
View ArticleI Have Been Spooked By Roach
Chupacabra is rarely spooked. What is it about Mary Roach books? I have read all four out there (Bonk, Stiff, Packing for Mars, and Spook) and fervently look forward to the next one. I don’t care what...
View ArticleRate My Squeamishness
The Roasted Squash Seed Rating System Rating systems make me squeamish. You see them everywhere – Amazon, Goodreads, movie review sites, etc. Specifically, the ones on book review sites make me squirm...
View ArticleLoudest Reading of 2012
I was very noisy, I admit it. But these book were so damn entertaining and surprising at the same time! I was swearing along with the main characters when they got ambushed; I was exclaiming, ‘No way!’...
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