What’s Your Poo Telling You – A Book Review

Or, like everything else unsavory that I post, blame JD

I’ve been meaning to review What’s Your Poo Telling You? forever but the time just never seemed right. Then three things happened:

1. I became a partner in Potty Training Power
2. I heard tell that #poosday or #fecalfriday were going to become the next big hashtags, although we might not be participating anymore since we heard that Chuck Berry is still alive and may or may not be on twitter.
3. I committed to a Blogathon and now everything looks like a good post idea to me.

Like I said, I’ve had this book forever and even given it as a gift which proved to be most popular. It’s a light and hilarious reference guide to what secrets your poop is trying to tell you, if only you’d listen.

 

 

photo credit chriswatkins

Who would NOT enjoy What’s Your Poo Telling You?

Okay you know how some people say they can’t understand how people could not want to get married or have kids or think cats are cute or could want to schtupp the same sex? And people look at them like they are some sort of judgmental monsters that lack imagination? I kind of feel that way about this book; I can’t conceive, fathom or wrap my mind around somebody not wanting to flip through it. Oh ja, I can imagine people denying that they want to go through it, but I can’t believe that if you left them alone in a room with this book that they wouldn’t take a peek. And then another.

But I’m not going to say that because I, for one, do not like my ass handed to me on a platter.

Instead I will say if you are prudish, priggish or anally retentive you will not like this book. Everyone else will find it a delightful little volume.

Who WOULD enjoy What’s Your Poo Telling You?

Oh duh, everyone. The awesome, the intellectually adventurous, the folks that like to take care of their own health, Chuck Berry, the open-minded, people who like the game Scatagories, folks who are trying to get on Jeopardy, your Grandma and Grandpa, pretty much everyone would enjoy this book.

Or even if they don’t enjoy-enjoy it, they’d kind of like that funny-naughty feeling they get while reading it. If you feel that way, it’s okay, it’s a way to be. It’s not my way to be, but it’s yours and that’s okay.

What I liked:

• Creative,”punny” names for the different varieties of poo
• I am not sure, but it seemed like actual medical science was consulted.
• Small size, easy to fit into a handbag or BDU pocket, much like Reader’s Digest
• Not too dumbed down, not too intellectual
• I did not get the sense that the authors were being too ironically hipster with me. I hate it when people do that.

What Could Have Been Improved:

• I would have liked laminated, easy to sanitize pages so that I could feel comfortable keeping this in the potty for handy reference
• I think they could have used some more cheerful poo based colors on the cover
• It seemed like most, if not all, of the illustrations used were of men. Hello, it’s the 2000s!!!
• The postpartum poo chapter brought back many painful memories and I would have appreciated some sort of warning.
• While I wouldn’t have wanted all the pictures in color, it would have been nice to include a color chart in the appendix for comparison purposes

In short, I can’t recommend this book enough and putting aside the fact that my affiliate link is all over this post, I think it’s the kind of book that you’d want to purchase brand new for your own personal use rather than borrow from the library or buying used from Goodwill. Remember – Father’s Day is just around the corner!

What’s Your Poo Telling You? by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth, M.D. is available to purchase at Amazon and other book sellers.

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