Sign in with Facebook
more photos (1)
Mary hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Mary is following 0 people
Mary Roach
Goodreads author profile
born
Etna, New Hampshire, The United States
gender
female
website
twitter username
genre
member since
March 2013
New York: Wednesday, April 3 – Barnes and Noble, Union Square
Philadelphia: Thursday, April 4 – Free Library
Cambridge: Friday, April 5 – Harvard Bookstore @ The Brattle Theater
Washington DC: Sunday, April 6 – Politics and Prose
Seattle: Monday, April 8 –Town Hall
Portland: Tuesday, April 9 – Powells
St. Louis: Wednesday, April 10 – Left Bank Books
Minneapolis: Thursday, April 11 – Science Museum of...
|
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
— published 2003 — 29 editions |
|
|
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
— published 2008 — 26 editions |
|
|
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
— published 2010 — 24 editions |
|
|
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
— published 2005 — 26 editions |
|
|
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
|
|
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) , Tim Folger — published 2010 — 3 editions |
|
|
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
— published 2013 — 6 editions |
|
|
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author), Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) — published 2011 — 2 editions |
|
|
Best Sex Writing 2009
by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) , Tracie Egan , Tom Johansmeyer — published 2009 — 4 editions |
|
|
Inside Animal Minds: The New Science of Animal Intelligence
by Virgina Morell, Mary Roach (Goodreads Author), Peter Miller — published 2012 |
|
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
Interviews
April 2013,
Mary Roach
"Gross-out subjects become fascinating in the hands of this popular science writer, whose latest nonfiction romp goes down the hatch in Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal." ...More
"Gross-out subjects become fascinating in the hands of this popular science writer, whose latest nonfiction romp goes down the hatch in Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal." ...More
more interviews »
Mary's Recent Updates
|
Mary Roach
marked as to-read:
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
|
|
|
Mary Roach
marked as to-read:
|
|
|
Mary Roach
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
|
|
“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. ”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Mary Roach
― Mary Roach
Polls
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rory Gilmore ...: January Nominations... | 35 | 400 | Dec 03, 2008 07:51pm | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: What I am also reading in December | 30 | 303 | Jan 08, 2009 06:31am | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Help me find an inspring, engrossing, TRUE story! | 33 | 174 | Mar 19, 2009 08:28am | |
| Supernatural Fict...: Do You Believe in Ghosts? | 14 | 65 | Apr 07, 2009 05:44am | |
| History is Not Bo...: We just witnessed history! | 640 | 434 | Apr 11, 2009 04:24am | |
| The Singularity: "Rapture for the Geeks" by Richard Dooling | 3 | 27 | May 03, 2009 05:08am | |
| History is Not Bo...: Sooo What are You Reading in '09? | 44 | 119 | May 25, 2009 12:06pm | |
| Think [the box] ing: Eternity - something to look forward to? | 82 | 73 | Jul 24, 2009 11:11pm | |
| History is Not Bo...: History that reads like a novel | 44 | 301 | Aug 12, 2009 12:21pm |
Ask Mary Roach - Wednesday, April 10th!
— 605 members
— last activity May 17, 2013 08:29pm
Join us on Wednesday, April 10th for a special discussion with author Mary Roach! Mary will be discussing her work, including her most recent book Gul...more
