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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Did not finish book.
2.0
I've heard great things about this author but I've been trying for a few months and just can't finish this.
This is a collection of newspaper columns loosely based on the premise of moving back to the United States after living in the United Kingdom. There's no rhyme or reason to how the book is organized. Each essay is short and a number of them employ a very dated style of humor of looking at the then-modern world with Andy Rooney-style bemusement or "my wife is the boss"-type of storytelling. Nothing terribly offensive and I admittedly cracked a brief smile now and then, but most of these essays were almost instantly forgettable.
I think I would have loved it had I been in my mid-40s during the 1990s and bought this to read on an airplane.
This is a collection of newspaper columns loosely based on the premise of moving back to the United States after living in the United Kingdom. There's no rhyme or reason to how the book is organized. Each essay is short and a number of them employ a very dated style of humor of looking at the then-modern world with Andy Rooney-style bemusement or "my wife is the boss"-type of storytelling. Nothing terribly offensive and I admittedly cracked a brief smile now and then, but most of these essays were almost instantly forgettable.
I think I would have loved it had I been in my mid-40s during the 1990s and bought this to read on an airplane.