I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
4 journalers for this copy...
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:)
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:)
I gave this to ellenlyn tonight for the international book box.
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.
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
At April meeting
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.
Haven't read it yet, had it mailed to me from Northern Ireland(!) about two weeks ago. Will come back when read/released.