![]() So when it was time to select our first nonfiction title for the Skylarking book club, Roach’s most recent book, Fuzz, was an obvious choice. ![]() Her books are funny, fascinating, and will leave you with a plethora of interesting – if entirely useless – facts you can impress your friends with at parties whenever there’s an awkward pause in the conversation. Roach writes with a refreshing frankness about this stuff, and always with an eye for the absurd. ![]() She has written about death ( Stiff) sex ( Bonk) the afterlife ( Spook) the human digestive system ( Gulp.) You get the idea. The undisputed queen of the popular science book is Mary Roach, author of a series of hugely popular and very entertaining tomes, all with punchy one-word titles, each of which examines a different aspect of this strange world we live in. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wonderful world of: Science. There you will find books on subjects as diverse as hallucinogenics, dinosaurs, the DNA double helix, astrophysics, and why algebra is a gendered construct. ![]() ![]() One of the most interesting sections of Skylark Bookshop is up on the mezzanine floor, nestling between Memoir and Sociology. ![]()
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