Kris

Loved it! My first Mary Roach book and have more on the to-be-read-list (Up next: ‘Stiff' and ‘Grunt'). She writes super accessible and very entertaining. I learned a lot, while also being very amused. Definitely recommend.

Loved it! Was curious because of the new BBC series that just came out and wanted to read the book before seeing that. Lovely characters and great observations about life in general.

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”
“Generally I find that men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves, says Marianne.”

A gut-wrenching, timely, f*cking beautiful memoir. A new fierce icon. ♥️

“When I listened to her, I understood: You have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most likely to be beyond what you can imagine. It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do.”

“This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I'll always find a way to keep going.”

I read the Dutch version of this book. There are great observations and lovely sentences in it, but overall it didn't live up to the hype for me. I might try one of his other books.

JUP. Read it, weep, take stock of your life, act accordingly. It's been awhile since a book delivered a sentence, an idea, a moment that has made me weep in recognition.