I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

by Bill Bryson | Humor |
ISBN: 076790382x Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingethereawing of Little Rock, Arkansas USA on 10/31/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by wingethereawing from Little Rock, Arkansas USA on Monday, October 31, 2005
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.

Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
As with any group of essays, these are hit or miss:)

Journal Entry 2 by wingethereawing from Little Rock, Arkansas USA on Wednesday, November 2, 2005
I gave this to ellenlyn tonight for the international book box.

Journal Entry 3 by rem_BWC-899513 on Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Caught at March meeting.

As I started the first chapter, I suspected that I'd read it before, but under a different book title. Seeking confirmation from my permanent collection - aha!! It was published in the UK as Notes from a Big Country.

Superb, actually.

Journal Entry 4 by rem_BWC-899513 at Common Grounds Cafe in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (4/11/2006 UTC) at Common Grounds Cafe in Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom

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At April meeting

Journal Entry 5 by InvisibleAng from Belfast, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Thursday, April 13, 2006
Picked this up on Tuesday night because I've enjoyed Bryson's writing before. But looking at these journal entries, I see that it's a differently-titled edition of a book I already have. I'll find a friend to pass it on to.

Journal Entry 6 by Adam54 from Woodbury, Minnesota USA on Thursday, June 15, 2006
Haven't read it yet, had it mailed to me from Northern Ireland(!) about two weeks ago. Will come back when read/released.

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