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• A Short History of Nearly EverythingLooking through my books...

  
  N.E.R.F. — Authority: 133
  A Short History of Nearly Everything Looking through my books really gets me thinking. This one was a graduating gift from my English teacher and all-round mentor and friend whom I really should’ve treated better but I was such an awkward and problematic kid. He wrote in the front cover: Dear Justin, I thought ...
  15 hours ago

• Bill Bryson’s ‘Really Short History of Nearly Everything’ Is The Dream Gift … – Huffington Post (blog)

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Bill Brysons Really Short History of Nearly Everything Is The Dream Gift …Huffington Post (blog)Of course it is possible that alien beings travel billions of kilometres to amuse themselves by planting crop circles in the English countryside or …read the full article
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• Icons of English countryside disappearing fast, warns Bill Bryson

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Village pubs, phone boxes and other defining features of the English countryside need to be protected "before the only icons we have left are corporate logos", Bill Bryson, the author, has warned.
  2 days ago

• Sunday Salon Feeling Under the Weather Edition

  
  Well-Mannered Frivolity — Authority: 128
  I have bronchitis this week so my reading has had its ups and downs. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger Not sure how I feel about this one. Its by the same author that brought us The Time Travelers Wife, which I greatly enjoyed. Her Fearful Symmetry was just odd. It was about ghosts and twins and ...
  1 week ago

• Lit. Angels Holiday Guide

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 574
  There’s a lot of great new books this year to check out for the holidays.  Some of them are continuations in specific series, and we’ll let you know which ones in our recommendations.  If you think we left out an important recommendation, leave a comment and let us know! For Kids Title: The Evolution of ...
  1 week ago

• Hiking the Appalachian Trail?

  
  Hiking Lady — Authority: 119
  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson If you want to read a humorous, well-written tale of a man’s journey with his friend hiking the Appalachian Trail, this book is for you. Bill Bryson, a trail novice at the outset of the book, tells his first-person story of his decision to hike the trail, ...
  2 weeks ago

• now reading- In A Sunburned Country

  
  WordyDoodles — Authority: 122
  Im longing to find a book I can really sink into, with a delicious story and characters, but it hasnt happened yet. Fortunately, in that quest I did find another Bill Bryson book to love-- In A Sunburned Country. Bryson takes us through the outback and around Australia, and does it in his usual observant and ...
  2 weeks ago

• What potato chip bag?

  
  Torch Lake Views — Authority: 421
  The finest thing an artist can do is to make me laugh out loud. It’s interesting how often the laughter is very close to tears. This morning I learned, long after the rest of the world had cottoned onto it, that one of my favorite Truly Funny Writers, Terry Pratchett , has early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Visit to the Fair

  
  Apu's World — Authority: 110
  The Bangalore Book Festival is around at the Palace Grounds, just as it was last November , and the hubby and I went around to it on Saturday, despite the wind and rain that makes you want to just huddle in bed. Seriously, I cannot remember Bangalore winters being this rainy even 10 years ago. Global warming, I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Library Loot

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 494
  I went to the library yesterday and borrowed just four books. As we’re moving house at the end of November I may be able to read these in time. In fact I only have one week to read Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron. I only have one week because this is part of the library’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• I want it all

  
  The Eagle & Child — Authority: 122
  Another one I stumbled upon while browsing through Bill Bryson’s fabulous book,  The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America : In the evening I sat in Hal and Lucia’s house, eating their food, drinking their wine, admiring their children and their house and furniture and possessions, their easy wealth and ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Parks Visitors’ Centres

  
  The Eagle & Child — Authority: 122
  It’s no secret that Bill Bryson is my favourite author.  It might be less well-known that The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is one of my favourite Bryson books (second only, perhaps, to A Walk in the Woods ) . I pulled The Lost Continent off the shelf this evening and opened it randomly ...
  4 weeks ago

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