Title: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Author: Mary Roach Genre: Non-fiction, science Publication Date: 2008 Purchase Price: $14.95 (paperback) I know I’ve mentioned this before, but Mary Roach is one of my favorite authors. Not only does she write books on topics that are interesting, she does so with aplomb and a…
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Celebrating Banned Books Week
Books have been being challenged and banned (and sometimes burned) since the concept of a book became known. The reasons for banning books are numerous and varied, but generally they boil down to the fact that someone, somewhere doesn’t like the ideas contained in the book. A simple search on any search engine will yield…
“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship.”
Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Author: Mary Roach Genre: Non-fiction, science Publication date: 2003 Purchase price: $10 Today’s blog is all about serendipitous finds. Sometime during the summer of 2003, I was wandering around Barnes and Noble with my father. I didn’t have any particular purchases in mind, so I was just…
Review: The Midnight Assassin
In the early 1880s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the rise. The backwater at the edge of the United States was officially a boom town, complete with over 11,000 citizens, an air-cooled ice cream parlor, and an opera house. The town coffers were full, and the new Capitol building (under construction since 1882)…
“Get a Job!” (Part I)
Job hunting is miserable, miserable work. And while it should comfort me that lots of people are in the same boat as myself, I am absolutely horrified that so many people are in the boat with me. As of June 2009, the number of unemployed people tipped the scales at 14,500,000. That’s over 14 million…