Listing Toward Sanity? A List Maker Explains (Mary Roach, Reader's Digest)Īs the plethora of links below demonstrate, Mary Roach is a ridiculously prolific author. When I glanced at it some months later, Ed had crossed nothing off, though he’d added a few items of his own: Make violin. I once wrote it out for him and put it on the side of the fridge. It’s easy enough: The same ten or 12 items, mostly involving home-repair projects abandoned midterm, have been on it for years. It’s just that it isn’t Ed who makes it-it’s me. It isn’t entirely accurate to say that Ed has no formal to-do list. Every now and then, I’ll discover one of Ed’s lists in some forgotten corner of the house: Rescrangen polfiter, it will say. I am married to a man whose idea of a list is a corner torn off a newspaper page, covered with words too hastily written to later decipher, and soon misplaced or dropped on the floor. I am, as you might have guessed, a person who makes lists: daily to-do lists, long-term to-do lists, shopping lists, packing lists. I’m sorry, there isn’t really a third category it’s just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel. It’s an interesting account but it doesn’t feel like vital read.There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don’t make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls.
Along the way she details with sex machines and penis cameras, erectile dysfunction treatments, artificial insemination, and the mysteries of the female orgasm. Roach draws on the writings of famous sex experts such as Alfred Kinsey and Masters & Johnson, and interviewing and observing today’s researchers. There are some guffaws, and Roach even volunteers for some experiments with her husband, but this book is surprisingly a straight-forward account of historical research and current studies of sex. Mary Roach, the popular science writer who has the sense of humor of a 12-year-old, investigates medical research of human sexual intercourse.
Title: Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex
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