bill bryson – Meditations

October 30, 2023

Review: The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’ve enjoyed Mr Bryson for many years now though the majority of his travel works are very old. This…

May 31, 2023

Rating: 3 out of 5 I generally like listening to what Mr Bryson has come up with, but in the end I found this…

May 3, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Bryson’s style, best emphasised by a generous overdose of wit, is not wasted on any subject. Nevertheless, the…

October 13, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…