In between we do what we can to forget.” A quote by the amazing Mary Roach herself. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. After finishing this book you’ll come to realize, “Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, puss and snot and slime and gleet. And surprisingly it’s interesting, not scary or nightmare inducing. In one of my personal favorites, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, she shares fascinating stories of what happens after you’ve exhaled your last breath. In Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, she dared to answer the question we’d all been wondering – can a dead man get an erection? If you’ve ever read any of Mary Roach’s other books you’ll know that she can take the most delicate subjects and make them entertaining, interesting, and even fascinating. Roach walks us through the process that begins when we put food in our mouths and ends when it…umm…comes out the other end.īut don’t for a second think this is a medical text book. This entertaining science writer’s newest work is called Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Yes, it’s just what it sounds like, in 327 pages or less Ms. Or maybe I should say I couldn’t wait to bite into this one. I devoured her other books and couldn’t wait to dive into this one. ![]() I cannot express to you how excited I was to find out there was a new Mary Roach book on the bookstore shelves.
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