When I picked up this book as the April selection for my local library book club, I was puzzled. “Why are we reading a book about white dudes walking the Appalachian Trail, written in the 90s?” I still don’t have an answer to that question. I mostly find it entertaining because, as has been common in my experience, my local library book club is entirely populated with women, and white women at that, so we are an interesting audience for Bryson’s exercising in navel gazing […]
I have seen 5 bears in Shenandoah. Suck it Bill Bryson!
This book is really funny. Unlike A Short History of Nearly Everything which is also great, this audiobook wasn’t read by Bryson. There were still a few moments where I laughed so loudly my girlfriend asked me if everything was ok. There’s one line where a deeply unpleasant woman steals a Hostess cake from Bryson’s deeply unpleasant trailmate. “Before he could react and smite her dead….” or something like that that made me laugh so hard. This book is similar to Into the Wild if you haven’t […]