The Body: A Guide for Occupants

A book you read many times because it is jam packed with information. The body is a marvelous, intricate thing and it made me realize how unappreciated it goes with all that goes involved with keeping us alive.

There was very little in here that was new to me as I regularly read science books but it was a very entertaining and therefore a quick read. I think it would be good for young adults (post sex-ed).

Again a book that I put down when covid got too much but now just finished it before the year ended. It’s an enjoyable read about this vessel we live in called the human body. The main things I took away from it were in fact how little we do know and how much is left to understand about ourselves and how we work. Some interesting info was shared though - fun facts, health and biology throughout history. As is usual with Bryson he writes in a dige...read more

As a fan of science (and humans) this was a fun audiobook book for me, made even more so being read by the author himself. Bill Bryson has such a knack for words. This is a subject that could be quite dull and weighty if written by someone else but Bryson has composed a delightfully funny and interesting account of the “long and interesting accident” that is the human body. That said, it does contain a lot of detail and can be quite intense and ...read more

When Things Go Wrong: Diseases’
(This book was written pre-COVID-19)

“The fact is we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people a hundred years ago.

The reason we haven’t had another experience like that isn’t because we have been especially vigilant. It’s because we have been lucky.”

-Michael Kirch
Washington University