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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26.The_Lost_Continent_Travels_in_Small_Town_America?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156042887m/26.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26.The_Lost_Continent_Travels_in_Small_Town_America?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7.Bill_Bryson">Bill Bryson</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/256070?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I bought this book after reading the first few lines of the novel: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever, or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever." <br/> <br/>I haven't read a lot of travel books in my life, but this one struck me as somewhat different. Bill Bryson travels through the small towns of America with a vague idea of trying to relive his childhood and capture the past of old family road trips. Along the way he not only shares his adventures in traveling but snippets of his life - it's part travel, part memoir. He makes observations about his travels, the people he meets and he does it all with humor and wit. <br/> <br/>I enjoyed it. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/25380?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>