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Notes from a Small Island
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HOPPIN' THE RAILS: TRAVEL
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1. The Sound of Munich
2. Notes From a Small Island
3. The Kingdom By The Sea
4. Something To Declare by Julian Barnes Touchstones having trouble.
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... strongest book written though. If you like what you're reading so far, you should check out I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Notes From A Small Island , In A Sunburned Country and Neither Here Nor There. They're pretty funny. If you finish A Walk and come away disliking his treatment of the ...
... and loved most of Bryson's travel writing - A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Big Country, Notes from a Small Island , Down Under, The Lost Continent... have I missed any? I also liked his biography of Shakespeare, considering how little material there is ...
... I know some here did not care for it, but I enjoyed it and finished it off in a day. Today I am about halfway through Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. This is my first book of his and I am pleasantly suprised at how funny he is.
I've liked all of the books Bill Bryson has read himself. He's got good pacing and a wry tone in appropriate places.
Travel Writing
1. Beyond Belfast by Will Ferguson
2. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
3. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
4. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
5. Through the Embers of Chaos by Dervla Murphy
6. The River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winches ...
Oh, dear ... I am VERY tempted by the E. Nesbit set, and still haven't bought His Dark Materials ... and then there is Notes From a Small Island which I MUST have ... I don't really need to eat for the next few months, do I??
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson which is also on the TBR list.
... been very linear in my reading lately. But not this week. I currently have going Zeitoun, The Hour I First Believed, Notes from a Small Island , and occasionally Swann's Way. I also keep picking up books that I want to read NOW.
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1. The inimitable Jeeves
2. Notes from a Small Island
3. A short history of nearly Everything
4. Misery loves Cabernet
5. Her Royal Spyness
6. Through the Fire
7. The Private Diary of Mr. ...
2. Non-fiction
1. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
2. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
3. Do One Thing Different by Bill O'Hanlon
4. On Writing by Stephen King
5. Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
6. Danse Macabre by Stephen King
7. The Theory of the Lei ...
... in the Woods - Bill Bryson
6. I'm A Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
7. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
8. Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
9. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
10. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
11. The Lost Continent: Trav ...
... (Mistress of the Art of Death #3) (September, 4*)
3.* Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
~~ Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
~~* The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
~~* more Philippa Gregory
~~ Margaret George
~~ Elizabeth ...
From AHS-Wolfy's library I would like to chose Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. It sounds like something I would enjoy.
Notes From a Small Island by the author listed to the right. A hilarious account of a naturalised American's parting tour of the British Isles, his home for 20 years, before taking his family back to the States for reasons not fully obvious. If you want to know what makes the British by turns ...
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Bryson's Notes From a Small Island doesn't show up when I visit the FS site, whether I'm logged in or not.
Beyond the Pale and Other Stories shows up when I'm not logged in, but disappears when I'm logged in. When not logged in, I click "Add to Basket" and the screen switches to my ...
... (although I am a pretty mean veteran of 'Snap' ;-)
#94 - klarusu, is there any chance you could take a screen capture of Notes From a Small Island ? The suspension of seeing this book might prove too much and I'll end up renewing JUST to see it!
#101 - Sorry to mess up your summery, ...
... stories by Ambrose Bierce
Scott's Last Expedition -The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott
Children's Bible Stories
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Now, I just have to stay away from the plastic money and wait until payday.
#92 I, too, would love to see the complete Les Rou ...
... Book going out of print, esp with the Green one coming and no indication at all as to whether there would be a reprint. Notes From A Small Island did look rather good, I agree with Quicksilver; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy had lovely text I thought but I wasn't so sure about the rather ...
... ateman
2. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
3. A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
4. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
5. Closing Time by Joseph Heller
6. Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
7. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
8. Thank ...
>44 - Hooray! More Bill Bryson! Notes from a Small Island is one of the few books that made me laugh until I cried. I haven't read it in years so I will definitely have to get a copy. Did you find out a price?
... From America by Alistair Cooke (Selections)
The Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson
Colour (not sure of the writer)
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (I held this in my hand - a lovely book)
I am chuffed that I predicted The Wooden World on another thread about Aubrey Maturin !! ...
... Tune by Dreda Say Mitchell
Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Song of Homana by Jennifer Roberson
27 - Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
L'Angleterre vue par un journaliste américain, drôle, parfois méchant (et c'est drôle aussi) et caustique. Il a un point de vue plutôt conservateur dans le mauvais sens du terme, c'est-à-dire étonné que ses contemporains ne se débrouillent ...
... (23-04-2009)
3. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson (19-03-2009)
4. Notes from a Small Island - Bill BrysonNotes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson (17-02-2009)
6. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryso ...
>273 - I would certainly love to see more volumes by Bill Bryson published by FS. He is absolutely brilliant! Notes from a Small Island made me laugh until I cried.
From Rach974923's library, I'd pick Notes from a Small Island , which I've wanted to read for a while.
... Donna Tartt
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70Moby Dick - Herman Melville
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton ...
Sounds like a Bill Bryson book to me, but the Canadian part doesn't fit(?)
... Geographic Atlas of the World -- yes, I have read this, or at least spent time perusing every page. I'm a map geek.
914 Notes from a Small Island
915 Lost on Planet China (added 8/7)
916 Whatever You Do, Don't Run (added 10/28)
917 Road Fever
918 Darwin Slept Here
919 I ...
Added some books I've read recently.
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
741 Drawing & drawings
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
915 Asia
Beijing's Top 10
3. Non-Fiction
1. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
2. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
3. The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
4. On Writing by Stephen King
5. Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
6. Danse Macabre by Step ...
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Animal Farm
Da Vinci Code
Handmaid's Tale
Lord of the Flies
Atonement
Of Mice and Men
Oliver Twist
Notes from a Small Island
The Color Purple
Charlotte's Web
Watership Down
#5 Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 10
Category: LT ER/Recommendations
Pages: 100
Okay I gave it 100 pages and I couldn't handle any more. This was one of the most boring books that I have "read" in a long time. It ranks right up there with A Short history of ...
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1. The inimitable Jeeves
2. Notes from a Small Island
3. A short history of nearly Everything
4. Misery loves Cabernet
5. Her Royal Spyness
6. Through the Fire
7. The Private Diary of Mr. ...
36. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
(8/25 nonfiction)
A very engaging travel essay that follows Bryson around his farewell tour of England. I really enjoyed this one; it's inspiring me to read more travel essays.
Yet another for my non-fiction category. I am astounded by how fast this one is filling up.
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
What an utterly wonderful way to travel a country, vicariously. Bryson's humor is disarming, and his writing clean and easy to read. The way he describes the ...
... I liked
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Books that were just ok
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma by Jane Aust ...
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71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 ...
... Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
3/5 stars
3) Hiroshima by John Hersey
4/5 stars
4) Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
4.5/5 stars
5) Beijing Top Ten by DK
3/5 stars
6) Behave Yourself by Michael Powell
3.5/5 stars
7) The Great Fire ...
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71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Van ...
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10.2 Thomas Jefferson:genius of liberty
10.3 A short history of nearly Everything
10.4 My Man Jeeves
10.5 Notes from a Small Island
10.6 The inimitable Jeeves
10.7 Jefferson's Vendetta
10.8 Unraveled sleeve
10.9 James Madison: A Biography
10.10 Who Invited ...
I just finished Bill Bryson's Notes from a small island . Not my favorite by him, but I love anything he writes, I love his humor and his factual knowledge. Before that I finished Neal Stephenson's Anathem. I know it is a really love it or really hate it book, for me it was love. I have ...
... from the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
My Man Jeeves
Notes from a Small Island
The inimitable Jeeves
Unlocking Harry Potter
The magical worlds of Harry Potter
Fantastic beasts and where to find them
Harry Potter ...
... from the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
My Man Jeeves
Notes from a Small Island
The inimitable Jeeves
Unlocking Harry Potter
The magical worlds of Harry Potter
Fantastic beasts and where to find them
Harry Potter ...
#29 Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 10
Category: Fiction(?)
Pages: 100
Okay I gave it 100 pages and I couldn't handle any more. This was one of the most boring books that I have "read" in a long time. It ranks right up there with A Short history of ...
#29 Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 10
Category: Fiction(?)
Pages: 100
Okay I gave it 100 pages and I couldn't handle any more. This was one of the most boring books that I have "read" in a long time. It ranks right up there with A Short history of ...
Absolutely A Short History of Nearly Everything is not the best place to start when first trying Bryson. Notes from a Small Island is much much better, humourous and totally sums up the UK :)
I have Notes from a Small Island by Bryson. I'm hoping that one is better.
I just picked up Notes from a Small Island hope it's as funny. I got it in audio form so that I could listen to it when my husband and I take a trip to South Carolina. He's not a big reader, he liked John Mortimer's Rumpole series and Sherlock Holmes but there's only so many of those. So I'm ...
... Bryson
Category: Non-Fiction
My first non-fiction read of the year and what a great start. I've only part Bryson's Notes from a Small Island and gave up on it because it seemed dated but I did like his style. I'm quite partial to a bit of Shakespeare too and fascinated by the theories ...
Other Non-Fiction 1/9
1. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson (Completed 9 April)
2. Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities by Tony Hallam (TBR)
3. Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett (TBR)
4. No Logo by Naomi Klein (TBR)
5. alcottacre in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Kate's Challenge (Nov 29, 2008, 1:00am)
... of Bryson's other works. He has a very dry, sarcastic sense of humor that I love. One of my favorites of his is Notes from a Small Island .
A Walk in the Woods is Bryson's best known work, but far from his best. I much prefer The Lost Continent and Notes From a Small Island for his travel work. My all time favorite of his remains A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Cliff, this whole group makes me think of Hick's "people ...
... parts of ancient world
* 940 General history of Europe
941 Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
942 Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
943 General history of Europe; Central Europe Germany
944 General history of Europe; France & Monaco
945 ...
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
... Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
3/5 stars
3) Hiroshima by John Hersey
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4) Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
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34. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson 5/5
29.NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND by Bill Bryson - This is the chronicle of the author's solo trip thru England before moving back to the U.S. after living in England for the previous 20 years . It had some funny moments . But the author's overall tone came across as pompous and occassionally whiney . ...
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Under an English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe
England, England by Julian Barnes
The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson
I lost my heart to the Belles: story of the Doncaster Belles by Pete Davies
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An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Short And Tall Tales: Moose County Legends by Lillian Jackson Braun
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
... definitely recommend him for an entertaining read though, he's a witty, observant writer. I think my favourites of his are Notes From a Small Island (out of date, but not far off!) and Neither Here Nor There - although actually, they're all good. Always makes me want to go off travelling ...
41. Notes from a Small Island ... by Bill Bryson
A great tour of Wales, Scotland, and England, with a nice glossary at the end.
900:
907- That Noble Dream by Peter Novick
914- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
917- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
920- Divided Lives by Elsa Walsh
923- The Puritan Dilemma by Edmund Morgan
929- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
940- Hi ...
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Little Bear, Else Minarek
A Wider World, Kate Simon
The Long Secret, Louise Fitzhugh
Notes from a Small Island , Bill Bryson
... for new books.
Yesterday on a trip to Barnes and Noble I brought home: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
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I also enjoyed Notes from a Small Island and several others. I read it rather than listened. He is quite the curmudgeon. I did listen to A short history of nearly everything and it actually worked well as audio.
... laughs I like Guards Guards, Small Gods or Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett.
Bill Bryson's Down Under and Notes from a Small Island are also good for a laugh (I love the bits where he is attacked by dogs and suffering jet lag).
I just finished Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. I enjoyed his bitchiness. I'm not sure I'll listen to any more of his books, though - think I'll just read them. His voice didn't match my image of him.
Anyway, I've started Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers read by Ian Carmic ...
... decided to not listen to Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon after about 20 minutes or so and am listening to Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson. It's the first of his books that I've listened to read (as opposed to reading) and I'm surprised at how light and high his ...
... miso soup by Ryu Murakami
6. The year of living biblically by A.J. Jacobs
7. Being dead by Jim Crace
8. Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
9. Fables vol. 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham
10. Fables vol. 7: Arabian nights (and days) by Bill Willingham
11 ...
... I think A Walk in the Woods was most charming, possibly because of the presence/distraction of Katz.
I recently read Notes from a Small Island and it took me forever, which was rare for me and a Bryson book.
I was particularly amused by the following description of Roman driving in Ne ...
... Carol Shield's Unless. And of course, still on War and Peace. Slow steady progress.
ETA: the other Bryson one was Notes from a Small Island - I didn't get very far into it and put it down.
... of Green Gables - 100 Year Anniversary
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That makes eleven so far. The ones I am currently reading are Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson, for Memoir, The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood for New Authors and I will be starting my ARC of The Venetian Mask by Rosalind ...
... by Marion Zimmer Bradley
9-How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
10-Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
11-Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
12-Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
13-Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
14- The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkein
15-A Year ...
... at Sea and Moominsummer Madnessfrom Paperbackswap. Looking forward to them!
I lived in England for a year, so Notes from a Small Island is somewhat familiar...not that a year makes me an expert on all things British by any means! Did you like A Walk in the Woods? I assume if ...
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I'm also slowly reading Notes from a Small Island . While I am enjoying it, and find it interesting, I do not find myself compelled to race through it. Which is interesting as I read A Walk in the woods in one morning. I guess there is more unfamiliar place and detail in Notes from a Sma ...
... Family Moomintroll that is waiting for me- thanks to Lisalouhoo's 888 page for the suggestion.
I'm also picking up Notes from a Small Island and The Little Princesses from time to time. Nothing is compelling me to read rapidly now though. It makes me think of reading a Maeve Binchy, ...
Summary of the month of February:
Whole Books:
14: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
15: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
16: Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
17: The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher
18: The Practical Nomad: How to Trave ...
... category is now:
1. The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
2. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
3. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
4. Steve and Me - Terri Irwin
5. The Little Princesses - Marion Crawford
6. The Tender Bar - J.R. Mohrin ...
12. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson : A charming, witty love song to Britain. It is a first person account of a trip via public transport from Dover in the very south of Britain to John O'Groats, the northernmost point in Britain in the far reaches of Scotland. An Anglophile myself, I ...
I finished Being Dead this weekend and started Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson in preparation for a trip to the U.K. I haven't laughed that hard while reading a book in a long time. I love Bryson's humor!
What I have read in February so far: Part 1
14: Notes from a Small Island , by Bill Bryson (OK, how annoying is it that super popular authors like Bill Bryson and Terry Pratchett have fucked-up touchstones? VERY annoying . . .)
reread
I'd read this book ages ago, and found it quite a ...
... information: history, georgraphy, geology, oddities of policy within the forest service, etc. I just recieved his book Notes from a small Island , and am valiently trying not to start it, or I will be up late reading, and didn't get much sleep last night (as I was finishing Friends, Lovers, C ...
I started Notes from a Small Island last night and laughed out loud almost immediately. Having lived in the UK for a year I can see the actual conversation that he describes at the start of the book, about driving "long distances". I look forward to getting into it more, however today a juicily ...
... would enhance my own life.
On to the next book!
I haven't decided if I'm going to start The Eyre Affair or Notes from a Small Island . Maybe I'll read them concurrently.
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Memoir / Biography
1. The Little Princesses – Marion Crawford
2. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
3. Notes from a Small Island –Bill Bryson
4. Deep Waters – James Raffan
5. The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
6. The Cure for Anything is Salt Water - ...
I just purchased Excellent Women recently - looking forward to reading it (if I ever get past my TBR pile). Notes from a Small Island was fantastic with a mug of English Breakfast. Must read Cautionary Tales.
... Diamant
Non-fiction:
Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David S ...
Oh, Excellent Women is a great book for that digifish.
I recently read Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island That is also great with a cup of tea because he is continually commenting on how Brits believe anything can be made better with a cup of tea and always sy "oh lovely" when offered a ...
No. 30 finished. Starting:
No. 31 Bill Bryson 's Notes From A Small Island
Can't remember why this ended up in the TBR pile as a re-read.
... Embarrassing Moments... the Book of Cringe
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Pelikan : Love, Redemption & Felony Theft : a novel of ...
... and Cape Cod Journal by Erma J. Fisk - blah.
Just pulled off my TBR pile: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson.
... off years ago.
Susan J. Douglas: Where the Girls Are : Growing up Female with the Mass Media.
Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island .
Annie Dillard: Holy the Firm
Craig Lesley : Storm Riders
Best American Essays 1992
Frances Mayes : Under the Tuscan Su ...
40) Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
I forget who or what recommended this book to me, but I found it by chance in a bargain bookstore and picked it up out of curiosity. It chronicles the adventures and thoughts of the author who has returned to England after a (decade?) long ...
>20: If you're looking for more Bill Bryson, I highly recommend Notes from a Small Island (although I haven't heard anything bad about any of his books).
Just finished Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson which I really enjoyed. Next up is Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt.
... Steps by Arnold Bennett
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Inheritors by William Golding
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Auste ...
Read The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island both by Bill Bryson. Nice light reads, just right for my life right now.
Almost finishedThe Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney and will return to Collapse by Jared Diamond soon.
... cutter and some Royal Doulton cups and saucers for $1!)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen - 1st Ed. with dust jacket
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
(he's ...
Brilliant! I love Bill Bryson. Although my favorite is Notes from a Small Island ; I wish they had done a FS edition of that instead of The Lost Continent (although all of his books are very good).
#52 compskibook Isn't Bryson great? I recently finished his Notes from a Small Island on his years spent living and traveling in Britain. It is hilarious. I also loved A short history of everything he is a great science writer as well. I'll have to pick up A Walk in the Woods
I saw the ...
... Bryson (audiobook)
I picked this book on CD up at the library since I own and am currently reading his other book Notes from a Small Island . "Walk" wasn't as funny, though it is rich in imagery and full of the author's appreciation for the Appalachian Trail.
THe sub-title is "redisco ...
... made me LOL.
And another second to Bill Bryson. Even though I didn't get a chance to finish my borrowed copy of Notes from a Small Island , in the chunk that I read, I kept nudging mister and saying let me read this bit to you!
... back at childhood in the midwest 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
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... 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. Anything by James Thurber, ...
... of her ex, H.G. Wells
A passage to England -- Nirad Chauhuri looking at British culture through Indian eyes in 1955
Notes from a small island -- an American Anglophile on Britain in 1995
Any of Bill Bryson's travel stuff is laugh-out-loud funny to me, particularly In a Sunburned Country and Notes from a Small Island .
... British people, even though I'm British myself! I always like to know how others view us. (All began with Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island about 12 years ago, felt slightly peeved with Bryson when I read Paul Theroux's earlier and much less complementary/sentimental Kingdom by ...
... Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Key Largo by Maxwell Anderson
Jamaica Inn by DuMaurier
... the tags "england" and "angleterre" into just one tag diminishes the richness of the tag information on a work social page? Notes from a small island has been tagged by at least one person "angleterre". I would find it very interesting to know this looking at the page, but no, it's buried under " ...
Ok, well here I go.
1. David Wiesner's Flotsam.
2. An Island Like You: Stories from the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
3. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmitt Till Case by Chris Crowe.
4. American Born Chinese by Gene Yang.
5. Habibi by Naom ...
... ages)
Emperor: The Gates of Rome - Conn Iggulden (624 pages)
The Borgia Bride - Jeanne Kalogridis (525 pages)
Small Island - Andrea Levy (530 pages)
Salem Falls - Jodi Piccoult (514 pages)
The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif (529 pages)
... Embarrassing Moments... the Book of Cringe
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Pelikan : Love, Redemption & Felony Theft : a novel of ...
What a great thread. I'm currently in Bournemouth, UK reading Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island . It's my first Bryson book, and 100 pages in, I'm still unsure if I like his style, but I'm leaning towards thinking that sometimes it hits home, and sometimes it's just annoying.
This ...
... by authors so as to avoid being deterred by one bad experience. The exception being Bill Bryson. I just finished his Notes from a small island and I just found it pretty offensive. I have a pretty low tolerance for people, authors or not, who would resort to name calling or mocking a ...
Today I finished reading a couple more books.
12. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (NF) 317 pages
13. Stories from Nauru by Various Authors (F) 20 pages (A bookcrossing share)
Looking forward to starting a new book tonight.
... as I finished Beloved by Toni Morrison the day before and that was a tad on the intense side.
Today I am reading Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson which someone gave me for my birthday and I am liking it. It's fun to take a long at my motherland from an outsider's point of ...
I didn't realize it was on the Booker list also; I checked and it was shortlisted for the Orange in 2004, the year Small Island won. Maybe 2007 will be her year!
The Grenville was also very powerful. It has won the Commonwealth Prize already and been shortlisted for the Booker but should ...
... all the books backlogged on my TBR shelves, and have adopted my MIL's 100 page make-or-break rule) were Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clark, although the latter was abandoned due to lack of time and not dislike. Perhaps ...
... try Oxygen for a contemporary setting or Ingenious Pain for an historical one. Another super book is Andrea Levy's Small Island about immigration from Jamaica to England in the 1940s.
Small Island by Andrea Levy*disregard the mad touchstone
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
1599: A Year in the life of Shakespeare by James Shapiro
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Lots of stuff appearing on touchstones which I haven't ...
I read Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson when I was living in the UK (I'm a Canadian), and certain parts of that book made me laugh until I wept. It captured certain aspects of life in England rather alarmingly well, I thought.
I also remember reading aloud selections of The Meaning ...
... Finland has the coolest coins, with local flowers and birds!
Having to change money every time I visit my sister on the small island is ...cumbersome.
Looking at the winners for the past six years - On Beauty, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Small Island , Property and Bel Canto - I would say that all are accessible. None are what I would describe as 'difficult'.
Excellence: all I can offer is my own opinion that they were all very well ...
... recommendations for travel in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Great Britain?
I'm a fan of Bill Bryson and have read his Notes from a small island and Neither here nor there. I've visited England and Scotland and have read a few travel books about them. I'm visiting all the above countries ...
After several days of sluggish reading, I abandoned Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island ; it just didn't grab me like his others have. Shame.
As I'm off for some vacation relaxation, I am taking The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Ni ...
... Cooper's Dispatches From the Edge, and after reading two rather "heavy" books, have turned to Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island for a laugh and warm memories of previous travels.
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