{"id":8753,"date":"2017-02-19T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:52:39","slug":"my-planet-finding-humor-in-the-oddest-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8753","title":{"rendered":"My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places<\/a><\/em> (2013) Mary Roach<\/a><\/p>\n

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(T)he complete collection of her \u201cMy Planet\u201d articles published in Reader\u2019s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I adore Mary Roach’s writing. She makes me laugh, but also writes about all KINDS of fascinating things, like corpses and what happens to them.<\/p>\n

This is a collection of short essays, some better than others, but sometimes you need a quick and amusing story.<\/p>\n

Home repair projects around our house generally fall into two categories: \u201cI\u2019ll get to that this weekend\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll get to that this summer.\u201d Followed by an eventual shift to a third category: \u201cI\u2019ll get the Yellow Pages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My mother always fed our cats PET milk, and I\u2019d assumed it was a special inexpensive kind of milk for pets. \u201cWhy, sure,\u201d said Ed. \u201cIt\u2019s shelved right there next to the IDIOT Milk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I believe prewashing is demeaning to the dishwasher. If people wash the dishes first, the dishwasher is reduced to a sort of unneeded front-loading autoclave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is an amusing collection, and I picked it up on sale. I don’t think I’d recommend paying the list price for it, but on sale it was amusing.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Reader’s Digest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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