I think my hopes were too high for Swallow. I like books about weird topics – I’m a big fan of Mary Roach, I loved The History of Milk, that book I read last year about the snake oil salesman… the weirder, the better. And Swallow was weird but it was also… difficult to read. Within about ten pages, I just wanted to put it down and that’s about the time when TW told me that she had not been able to finish it.
Well. Gee. I wonder why.
I don’t want my foreign body swallowing book to be full of prose. I want it to be full of quirky, interesting facts and stories. The author is a fabulous writer but I wish I’d read something else she wrote and I wish someone else would write a less pretty book about the swallowing of foreign bodies and the really interesting Dr Jackson Chevalier.
Also… I’m glad I didn’t read this before Elly swallowed the penny 10 years ago – I’d have been a total wreck. She’s lucky she didn’t die! Good grief.