An entirely unsurprising book, this pop science book is to the human body what Bill Bryson’s earlier book A Short History of Nearly Everything is to scientific discovery. Thoroughly researched, charmingly narrated (both in terms of the prose style and sense of levity the book is written in but also in terms of the audiobook edition that Bryson himself narrates in his confusing and fetching mixed accent). So the book works it’s way through the various parts of the human body discussing form, function, analogies to […]