![]() The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals of England in all its glorious eccentricity ever written. ![]() The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative-and a really, really funny guy. In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road-and on a tear. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-and what hasn’t.įollowing (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. ![]() Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. A loving and hilarious-if occasionally spiky-valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. ![]()
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Even as Grey learns to wield his magic for good, Rhen is cornered by the vengeful enchantress Lilith, whose magesmith family was destroyed by Rhen’s family years prior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prince Rhen and Princess Harper prepare for a clash with Syhl Shallow, where Lia Mara, now queen, faces criticism for her controversial alliance with Grey. Rival nations Emberfall and Syhl Shallow process the revelation that former royal guardsman Grey is not only the long-lost heir of Emberfall, but also the first known magesmith in years. ![]() ![]() ![]() A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. ![]() A pitch perfect debut.” -Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and Body Work ![]() Radke knows exactly when to approach her subject with levity and when with gravity. “A deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting history of human butts. One of Time’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall.One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022.Butts: A Backstory Heather Radke € 31.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() People usually think of Lao-tzu as a hermit, a dropout from society, dwelling serenely in some mountain hut, unvisited except perhaps by the occasional traveler arriving from a ’60s joke to ask, “What is the meaning of life?” But it’s clear from his teachings that he deeply cared about society, if society means the welfare of one’s fellow human beings his book is, among other things, a treatise on the art of government, whether of a country or of a child. All he left us is his book: the classic manual on the art of living, written in a style of gemlike lucidity, radiant with humor and grace and largeheartedness and deep wisdom: one of the wonders of the world. Like an Iroquois woodsman, he left no traces. ![]() Even the meaning of his name is uncertain (the most likely interpretations: “the Old Master” or, more picturesquely, “the Old Boy”). ![]() ![]() But all the information that has come down to us is highly suspect. He may have been an older contemporary of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and may have held the position of archive-keeper in one of the petty kingdoms of the time. Since it is already well known by its Chinese title, I have let that stand.Ībout Lao-tzu there is practically nothing to be said. 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Into slavery in western India, and then he made his way back to Africa. ![]() SIMON: And Sidi Mubarak Bombay - he was kidnapped from his village in East Africa, sold for cloth. ![]() He was in many ways sort of an equal opportunity offender - obviously very deeply flawed in many ways, but absolutely fascinating. But he studied every religion and every culture but respected none. He was the first Englishman to enter Mecca, disguised as a Muslim, because his Arabic was so good. You know, he was one of these once-in-a-century characters. First, Richard Burton - brilliant, self-taught, much to admire, but kind of hard to like, wasn't he? SIMON: I want to get you to tell us about each of these three distinctive personalities. Thank you so much for being with us.ĬANDICE MILLARD: Thanks so much for having me. Candice Millard, author of previous bestsellers, including "River Of Doubt," joins us now from Kansas City. Candice Millard's book, "River Of The Gods: Genius, Courage And Betrayal In The Search For The Source Of The Nile," tells the true life tales of men who trekked into uncharted places, contending with the forbidding terrain of heat, drought, fever, typhoid, smallpox and beetles that burrowed into ears. ![]() The quest to find the headwaters of the Nile River was the space race of the middle of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, for what it is, and how short it was, I wasn’t mad I read it, but it wasn’t anything great. The book does try to throw some curve balls at you to take you off the path, but not enough to convince you to change your mind. I was a bit disappointed by this, because I was very much looking forward to a supernatural book, but was given what felt like a bait and switch. As someone else pointed out, the book starts off as a supernatural type book, and then changes gears to a thriller. ![]() ![]() When the action and or suspense is going on, this book is a real page turner (even if you figure it out early). A lot of unnecessary details or conversations, or descriptions of things, and then the last two pages of the chapter would start to pick and just when you are hooked, the chapter ends and it’s back to the same formula. You would start a chapter, and it would be long and drawn out. The book itself seemed to have a pattern, and imo an annoying one at that. A short read, but I was able to figure it out The Whodunit very quickly and the book itself reveals whodunit if you will well before the book is over. A lot of 5 star reviews on this one, so I figured I would give it a go. ![]() |