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First off, huge love to Non-fiction Book Club for picking another great read. Seriously, I'm now learning to love non-fiction in ways I never knew was possible.
I am pretty sure I have a huge crush now on Bill Bryson. I realize how odd it is to have a crush on an older gentleman who wrote a book about walking the Appalacian Trail and eatng Snickers bars, but Bryson is a man with magic powers. His power is his amazing way with making readers feel comfortable in their own skin when they don't know ...more
I am pretty sure I have a huge crush now on Bill Bryson. I realize how odd it is to have a crush on an older gentleman who wrote a book about walking the Appalacian Trail and eatng Snickers bars, but Bryson is a man with magic powers. His power is his amazing way with making readers feel comfortable in their own skin when they don't know ...more
I loved Bryson's account of actually walking the trail (or even preparing to do so, or of skulking around home between hiking jaunts)!
Sadly, I mostly hated the many info-dumps of historical information interspersed throughout. I'm not sure what I was expecting (it's probably normal to talk about history of a site in a travel memoir?), but it occurs to me now that I could not have possibly been the target audience for this book. I skimmed the "facts parts" toward the end. ...more
Sadly, I mostly hated the many info-dumps of historical information interspersed throughout. I'm not sure what I was expecting (it's probably normal to talk about history of a site in a travel memoir?), but it occurs to me now that I could not have possibly been the target audience for this book. I skimmed the "facts parts" toward the end. ...more
