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2 Dec 2013, 8:46 am
Reminds me of this passage from Bill Bryson's great memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid":Every week brought exciting news of things becoming better, swifter, more convenient. [read post]
19 Apr 2013, 7:35 am
Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" begins this way: My kid days were pretty good ones, on the whole. [read post]
1 May 2018, 7:56 am
”From Bill Bryson, "At Home: A Short History of Private Life. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 8:24 am
A line from Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life" that sprang to mind this morning when I saw the tweeting about Justin Trudeau:Justin Trudeau’s left eyebrow detached after meeting Trump — so what? [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 3:37 pm
.' And ask any deep thinker about the benefits of what Bill Bryson calls the 'tranquil tedium' walking elicits. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 10:19 am
The site is currently online though Fung has pubished a farewell post indicating that he is moving on to other projects. 2: Bill Bryson’s Copyright Stoush with Mike Gerrard has Wider Implications Next up today, Nick Galvin at the Sydney Morning Herald reports that journalist Mike Gerrard has found himself in a copyright spat with author Bill Bryson (or at least his publisher) over an interview that Bryson gave Gerrard in 1994 that Gerrard recently… [read post]
19 Mar 2016, 1:08 am
The Bill would basically limit the venues where patent infringement claims can be brought. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 9:13 am
John Bryson Chane and the Right Rev. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 2:42 am
LEGAL RESEARCH, SUDAN AND THE DURHAM ARCHIVEIslam, Law and Modernity, Grey College and the Bill Bryson LibraryUniversity of Durham16-17 December 2013This conference is intended to encourage and support legal research on Sudan. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 9:31 am
., dissenting).While the phrase stuck with me, I never appreciated its true meaning until I recently read Bill Bryson's new biography of Shakespeare. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 7:06 am
" I've linked to the Kindle version, but you'll see the link to the audiobook version, which I personally love (in part because I use audiobooks to fall asleep and Rakoff's voice is expressive but gentle, like that of my other favorite audiobook writer-reader, Bill Bryson). [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 3:54 pm
" Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage 175 (2007). [read post]
25 Dec 2013, 12:17 pm
So I knew pretty early on that I was never going to get an Erector Set.Writes Bill Bryson in his memoir about growing up in the 1950s, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid." [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 5:59 am
"Walkers in Britain, it seems, are killed by cows all the time," writes Bill Bryson in "The Road to Little Dribbling":Four people were fatally trampled in one eight-week period in 2009 alone. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 12:35 pm
I was born in 1951, the same year as Bill Bryson, whose wonderful memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" describes how we played back then:[K]ids were always outdoors... and they were always looking for something to do. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 2:38 pm
Andrew Ferguson is my guest in the first hour today. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 5:19 pm
So unless you are going to through hike the continental divide trail Bill Bryson style, you aren't welcome. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 8:30 am
But just to make it easier for you, congratulations and thanks to (alphabetically): Michael Arkfeld, Ray Billotte, Judge Kyle Bryson, Andrew Federhar, Glenn Hamer, Bill Klain, Mark Larson, Lisa Loo, Judge Scott Rash (appointed in A.O. 2014-58), Judge John Rea, Trish Refo, Marcus Reinkensmeyer, Mark Rogers, Nicole Stanton, Steve Tully, Steven Weinberger and Judge Christopher Whitten (appointed in A.O. 2014-58). [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 2:41 pm
Three of the others have been resolved in Google’s favor and two others are still pending. 3: Bill Bryson Publishers Allowed to Keep Jolly Fisherman Cover Image Finally today, the BBC is reporting that that the Skegness Town Council has reached a deal with with the publisher Transworld to allow it to continue using a likeness of Skegness’ Jolly Fisherman statute on the cover of a book by author Bill Bryson. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 1:38 pm
It was a moment of the sublimest happiness. -- Bill Bryson, Down Under.My hotel room, however, is fully equipped with a drip coffee maker. [read post]
