Week 8
Assignments 1 and 2
I read the articles and viewed the video.

Assignment 3
Nonfiction genres :
Travel 910 Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert
Science 612 Bonk:The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Mary Roach
Food 641 and Biography Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Social Issues 305 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Assignment 4

  Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach is filled with thorough, but zany research on the science of sex.  Brothels, pig farms and sex toy research labs are some of the places she has investigated.  Readers who like authors such as Chuck Palahniuk and/or Christopher Moore  may appreciate the quirky humor in Mary Roach’s science writing. Dexter fans who don’t shy away from a little blood or gore might find Bonk is similarly lurid in a droll way. If you liked 50 Shades of Grey and your high school biology class, Bonk should be right up your (ahem) alley!

  

Readers of fiction in foreign settings that are witty and introspective such as Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses or Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple are likely to appreciate a book like Eat Pray Love which has similar appeal
factors.  The tone is essentially light with an underpinning of emotional drama and explores the dynamics between human relationships and self as do the characters in Tan's and Semple's books.