7. Gulp

Mary Roach is one of my favorite authors. We somehow share the same morbid and entirely inappropriate, yet moderately tasteful sense of humor. Her books always keep me in stitches and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal was no exception. Mary opens the book with the importance of saliva and the olfactory senses and ends with the process of defecation. While I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as Stiff or Bonk, it is definitely worth reading.

On another side note, I am thoroughly impressed with the amount of technology that the Clinton-Macomb Public Library springs for. To begin, the digital catalogue will tell you exactly where a book is located (or, at least, where it should be located) and there is a service that will text you that information, along with the book's call number. The catalogue itself is so much more useful than many of the ones I have used in the past and can almost always decypher the book or subject matter I am looking for.

The library also has self checkout machines so that you don't have to interact with a librarian. Just set your books on the pad (I assume that they use some sort of RFID tags), scan your card, and tap OK. The process takes 10 seconds and you're on your way. If every library had the money to adopt this system I would visit them much more frequently.