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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Oh wonderful wonderful. I don't do much non-fiction reading for no real reason at all, so I can't with any authority say whether this is objectively good, but subjectively? Wonderful! Wonderful! The organization was meticulous; the chapters related to each other and flowed well. The facts were clearly presented, interesting, understandable but not dumbed down. The ego rush I had when I knew things was not at all depleted by hearing new facts, in fact all tidbits were presented in such a way that I was constantly gasping and rushing out to share with others. There was a seamless blend of scientific, cultural, and historical information that really supported one another, and there was surprisingly a lot of humour to be had in a book about guts and bones and disease. If I had been given this book anywhere between grade 3 and current day I'd have been in utter and absolute raptures, it's the perfect delivery of knowledge. How thrilled I was to learn that chemotherapy is mustard gas, how delightful to read that "It is an extraordinary fact that having good and loving relationships physically alters your DNA", how exciting to know that the blind can tell if lights are on or off. And tell me why did I cry at the end; "And that's you gone, but it was good while it lasted, wasn't it." Just, simply put, wonderful wonderful.
For me in the future: it's nonfiction. If you don't remember you have to reread, dummy
For me in the future: it's nonfiction. If you don't remember you have to reread, dummy