This book helped me understand my world around me. I knew some of the information, but there was so much I didn’t know.
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*APPLAUDS WILDLY*
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Sublime! Grossly captivating and informative and shows you just how amazing life truly is!
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I’m a Bill Bryson stan. 

His talent for taking an extreme breadth of information and compiling it into an engaging text for a mass audience is unparalleled. In this case he covers, as the title indicates, nearly everything. Literally, the founding of the universe to the evolution of the human species to what’s going on at Yellowstone (ngl, don’t wanna think about that too much) is in this book. All written about in Bryson’s dry humored, but informative way. 

The book was published in 2004 and occasionally the data, conversations, and research show. I would LOVE an updated version for 2025! 

Highly recommend, especially on audiobook! 

I've been reading so many audiobooks (can you tell I'm commuting now?) that they've all blurred together. I remember thinking that I wish this was an unabridged audiobook as I'd love to read the whole thing (without, you know, having to actually read with my eyes which impedes with the cross stitch project). 
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