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1 Feb 2016, 8:54 am
Says one commenter at Audible about Bill Bryson's new book "The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain," which — as I've already complained about — is not read by Bill Bryson.Most of the other commenters have the same problem:Click for more » [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds
REVIEWING BILL BRYSON’S NEW BOOK, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 7:01 pm
Paull is on hand now to introduce today's item in the Underbelly summer Book Fair:I just finished reading Shakespeare, by the amiable writer Bill Bryson. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 4:47 am
Well, not exactly, but this Weekend Edition story (click on listen) has an entertaining bit where Bryson discusses growing up in a time (the 1950s) when smoking was healthy, people didn't need to be warned about the unfortunate possible interactions... [read post]
10 May 2007, 11:42 am
First, the celebration: Bill Bryson's wonderful "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" -about which I wrote briefly last week-is available in a special illustrated edition that is perhaps the best gift book ever for... [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 12:13 pm by Michael C. Smith
  Before you ask, not, this isn't the same Bill Bryson that wrote some of my favorite books, including A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, or Shakespeare: The World As A Stage. [read post]
29 Aug 2015, 7:51 am
"Bryson's is my go-to voice for audiobooks to fall asleep to. [read post]
16 Jan 2016, 8:17 am
Says Bill Bryson — who has a new book "The Road to Little Dribbling/Adventures of an American in Britain" — in an interview in the NYT.I'm an immense Bill Bryson fan, primarily because I love his audiobook voice. [read post]
14 May 2007, 3:58 pm
As I have noted in a couple of previous posts here and here, I am happily lost in Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly... [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 11:31 am
Writes Bill Bryson, in "At Home: A Short History of Private Life": The Eiffel Tower wasn’t just the largest thing that anyone had ever proposed to build, it was the largest completely useless thing. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 6:00 am
Bill Bryson's remarkable book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, tells us in his 29th chapter about teardrop-shaped stone hand-axes. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 3:14 pm by Daniel Shaviro
 The Tenured Professor, Eleanor Perenyi's 1946 memoir More Was Lost, Ian McEwan's 1998 novel Amsterdam, most of Bill Bryson's 1996 comic travelogue Notes From a Small Island, and part of an old favorite, E.F. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 9:50 am by Michael C. Smith
  As readers know, Federal Circuit Judge Bill Bryson was in Marshall last month trying one of the cases he was assigned last fall, using Judge Gilstrap's courtroom. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 8:17 pm
But then I get all my information about the Appalachian Trial from Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods," which I've listened to as an audiobook 100s of times. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 9:01 am by Dan Farber
Since a lot of people are home for a few days because of the holidays, I thought I'd use the opportunity to put in a plug for Bill Bryson's book, At Home. [read post]
19 Oct 2013, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
Ebook pulled after travel writer Bill Bryson claims he owns words he uttered in two-decade old interview http://t.co/hTbqHN2z4Q -> Why we introduced copyright levy http://t.co/sO1g0qkjUt -> Here’s why isoHunt deserved to die http://t.co/J7dYkJBXFl -> Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-10-17: Aereo patents may be relevant to its copyright infringement … http://t.co/A0YWjBHfVe -> EU, Canada trade deal reached in Brussels after 4 years of negotiations… [read post]
6 Sep 2015, 10:06 am
I was annoyed by all the forced buddy-pic humor that replaced the relationship that Bill Bryson described in the book. [read post]