Bill Bryson’s books are like the literary equivalent of the British panel show Qi. Like an episode of the long-running series, his books are filled with tidbits of trivia presented in a quirky and humorous way. While Bryson is often quite ambitious in tackling the subjects that interest him (attempting to explain the universe in…
Resident information sponge Bill Bryson goes through his home, room-by-room, to present the history of private life and how many of the items we see and interact with on a daily basis came to find their way into our everyday lives. At Home feels like a handbook for making small talk at social gatherings. Let’s…
With the summer of 1927 being one of America’s most historic, celebrated non-fiction writer Bill Bryson took a long, hard look at everything that went down that year in his acclaimed 2013 release, One Summer: America, 1927. Events covered include: Charles Lindbergh becoming the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone in an airplane…
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