The Librarians Cringe
July 21, 2008
I bet the librarians cringe when I check out books. I have some weird tastes in reading materials. I go in fits and spells over my subject of choice at any one time. Once for about three months straight, all I read were books about climbing mountains, then it was heartwarming tales of dogs and after that the lives of smoke jumpers. I’m sure that my recent checkouts have them secretly thinking, what kind of nutjob checks out Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers, by Mary Roach, and at the same time Gastronomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery, by James Lileks. I have to say the stretch between dead people and casseroles from the 1950’s are not as far apart as one might think! I just have to say read em’, read em’ both…they both made me a little sick to my stomach, but they also made me at one point or another laugh so hard I nearly peed my pants….what’s more to love in a book than that!
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Angie Garren | July 21, 2008 at 8:20 pm
OMG, Stiff looks like a good read! I like your kind of review, Sue– the pee in my pants laugh-o-meter is a good one
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Carleton Place Public Library | July 21, 2008 at 9:15 pm
You know, you’d be surprised at how strange some people’s reading habits are, but we never, ever judge. Or cringe. Honest!