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I just started another comfort book - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson. He is so much fun to listen to. I remember when I discovered Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here myself. I bought a copy for EVERYONE! It was so funny! They would LOVE it!
'Tcha, right. *snort*
Not one of them got it, and my dad was offended at him poking fun at America.
So, nope ... no more book gifts. Gift ... ... Watchers and calorie deprived at the time, but it had me giggling like an idiot. Bill Bryson is great; I'm reading I'm a Stranger Here Myself right now, but I think my favorite of his is Neither Here Nor There. I recently discovered (thanks to Nancy Pearl) Cold Comfort Farm, still ... ... people) to revert back to pristine condition? Could it? What are our most lasting "monuments" going to be? (8/10)
54. I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Collected essays Mr. Bryson wrote for a newspaper column after returning to his native America after 20 years in England. Brillian ... ... Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie 1,733 copies
7. Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren 5 copies
8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Ogden Nash 63 copies
9. Alone, Richard E. Byrd 70 copies
10. Fanny Kemble, Margaret Armstrong 15 copies
... camps disguised as troubled-teen wilderness programs. I love that kind of plot, probably much more than I should.
#172: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
I hadn't read any Bill Bryson for a few years; I was glad to see his writing is just as funny as I remember. And I love humorous ... ... thought this was a democracy we lived in and that our leaders were, roughly speaking, an expression of the people's wishes. I'm being kind of ornery here. But that term really smacked of Sixties Marxism than contemporary conservativism.
To Geneg and Mark: Yes, racism is human, I agree. But I ... ... in the 1950's. For those that are unfamiliar with Bill Bryson I would recommend reading Notes from a small island or I'm a stranger here myself : notes on returning to America after twenty years away.
28.Meridon : a novel Philippa Gregory 2.5/5
This book was satisfying because it ... ... worth giving a try.
Based on your other tastes, I'd definitely recommend Bill Bryson. Say, A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself or Notes from a Small Island. I'd definitely hope your library had some Bryson.
I'd also recommend some of the classic American humorists. ... ... of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert F. Kennedy
14. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos
20. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas
22. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
25. The 25th Hour, David Benioff
84. 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
1001. 1001 Books ... ... Eats, Shoots, and Leaves (I probably just botched the punctuation there) and Talk to the Hand;
Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself
and parts of Louis Cha's The Deer and the Cauldron ... of the Wind by Poul Anderson
subsequent years-
Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Stones by Timothy Findley
Away by Jane Urquhart
sigh..this is hard work..will continue later
... Can't find a good used bookstore, though. Did use my educator discount card at a Borders to pick up Never Let Me Go and I'm a Stranger Here Myself.
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