A review by bgprincipessa
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years by Bill Bryson

4.0

Enjoyable as always, if you like his style. The book is a collection of short columns that appeared in a British magazine/paper, so they are not necessarily coherent as one book altogether. I love his observations, like I usually do, but the book does feel a bit dated. It was written in the late 90s and there were already things that seemed silly - for example, griping about the possibility of gas going up by 50 cents/gallon; trying to push his way onto a flight without proper identification (?! I didn't realize this was such a recent thing); and his heavy tech-phobia. Other than these sorts of issues, a fun quick read.