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October 13, 2020

Review: Icons of England, Bill Bryson

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was tricked. That can’t be right, can it? Well… It’s my fault obviously, but I still feel as…

August 19, 2020

Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is something fundamentally simple in Mr Bryson’s approach. While we aren’t dealing with a historian extraordinaire, it is…

August 3, 2020

Review: Notes from a Big Country, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 There’s a certain charm to collected news columns—that they were, perhaps, written over a long period, and we can…

July 8, 2020

Review: Neither Here nor There, Bill Bryson

Rating: 3 out of 5 Probably one of my least favourite Bryson books thus far, it’s clear that the author hadn’t yet grown into…

February 25, 2020

Review: The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 My main fault with this book is that it’s old — in many cases, this doesn’t matter, but especially…

November 21, 2019

Review: At Home, Bill Bryson

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Let me be frank — I like Mr Bryson’s works. Yet, a quick summary of this one would be…

November 8, 2019

Review: The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 It would not be fair to say that I utterly disliked this book. What made me dislike this was…

November 3, 2019

Review: A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 I loved this. The Appalachian Trail is probably a hiker’s dream — not only the (undetermined) length of walking…

October 7, 2019

Review: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Bryson seems to capture the perfect image from Great Britain (he does not speak of Ireland) in this…

July 29, 2019

Review: Made in America, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was really interesting! Histories in general have the promise to be thrilling, histories of language share this but…

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