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Bill Bryson At Home

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Bill Parker

master brummie
I have to admit Im not a big reader but I am a keen fan of Mr Bryson. I am currently reading the above mentioned and it is a super book full of the most fascinating facts about all sorts of things.

The author moves from one room of his house, a Norflok rectory, to another room but then goes way back into how that room developed over the times, so dont just think its a history of a house or housing its a history of just about everything that has the vaguest connection with housing and past history in the broadest sense. Its 510 large pages of pure fascination.
 
I've read a couple of his books and I agree that he has a very 'easy to read' writing style. Think I will look out for this book to take a way for a good holiday read.
 
I have read everything this man has had published, he is a literary genius, his subjects are diverse, ranging from Shakespeare to travelling the globe,very easy to read, he has a great sense of humour.
 
Kathy, this is ideal holiday reading, Astonite, your right about the mans genious, easy to read , informative and very entertaining.
 
Thanks for the great tip, Bill. I have three of his books, have read several others, and enjoyed everything he's written. I wasn't aware of the one you mentioned and will look for it at the library.

Ann
 
Have read many of his books reccomend his Notes from a Small Island, an American view of his stay in this country, he certainly has a wide knowledge of England and its way of life. He first of all lived in a Yorkshire Dale village, returned to the US for a while then returned here now living in an old rectory in a Norfolk village, which is what the book Bill Bryson at Home is partly based on. I brought Bill Bryson at Home at Bham airport for some holiday reading end of May , at over 600 pages it is quite a tomb and I have only just finished it, most enjoyable if a bit lengthy. Eric
 
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