Spin Book Club – Tegan's Review of An Anthropologist on Mars

Check out what Tegan thought of this month's selection An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks over at SPIN.com Book Club.

"I loved a lot of things in this book. I'm not a big science/non-fiction reader so once again, when I found out what book we were going to be reading, I felt intimidated. I read quickly and I read a lot. But as I'm out on the road right now and have been since June, I feel like my mind is mush. But this book didn't feel over my head (the way Cosmic Serpent did) and perhaps this is what makes Sacks such an interesting, accessible writer, even though his subjects are so medical/clinical from the outside. Somehow he made reading about people who lost their sight and their ability to see color, and their ability to make new memory (due to a grapefruit sized tumor on the frontal lobe of a hippie-turned-Hare Krishna) seem sweet and endearing, and not completely tragic." — Tegan Quin, Tegan & Sara