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I'm just wrapping up my Fall reading before diving into Holiday books, so here's a quickie look at what I read this Fall. ...

I am a Bill Bryson fan--I've enjoyed his travel books, social history books ( At Home is one of my all-time favorites), and his boo...

Sophisticated Dorkiness ,    I'm Lost in Books ,  Regular Rumination , and  Doing Dewey   are  hosting Nonfiction November.   Durin...

This week's Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is about those Ga teway Books or Authors in Our Reading Journey who g...

I've read and enjoyed a lot of Bill Bryson's books, but his latest, One Summer: America, 1927 is my favorite by far.  Much as I...

A few weeks ago I was chatting with a neighbor about favorite hikes in Boulder County and Rocky Mt. National Park and he told me about Th...

I prefer to listen to Bill Bryson read his work, and so have been putting off reading his latest, At Home: A Short History of Private Life...

A friend lent me a copy of Mother Tongue when I mentioned that I liked Bill Bryson. I made time for it, despite it not even resting any ti...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November....cuz it was my birthday! This week's Mailbox Monday features bookish gifts from my lovely fa...

Trolling my favorite blogs for airplane reading a few weeks ago, I pounced on a title that appealed to me on every level, Nick Hornby's ...