Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

One of my favorite things as a librarian is helping people search for odd topics. These searches frequently turn up bizarre studies that make me wonder how on earth anyone got their grant approved (getting rats addicted to cocaine comes to mind here). If I wasn’t a librarian, I would love to have a job like Mary Roach’s. She has parlayed her curiosity about everything and her delightfully immature sense of humor into a career shedding light on weird science. Her latest book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, takes us behind the scenes to show us the men and woman who work to keep our fighting forces healthy, sane, and relatively safe...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.