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28. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The lady at the bookstore told me Bryson was "laugh out loud funny," but while I didn't find myself belly-laughing, I did snort a few times, making Nathan ask me, "The book?" Bryson sets out to re-explore the America his dad took them vacationing through. He begins in Des Moines, Iowa, his hometown, and explores to the East first. The moment after he looks down his nose at touristy towns (pointing out the ice cream parlors, the fat tourists in gaudy clothes, and the cheap trinkets and stupid souvenirs), he joins the crowd and pays a ridiculous amount of money for ice cream and a ticket to a museum. He points out racial issues still alive and well in America in the mid-80's (though there are still racial issues today, so his points are rather timeless), the underfunding of America's national parks, and the loss of small-town America along scenic highways since the interstate system was started.
So, a funny book, part travel, part memoir, and part humor.
Now reading: Misery by Stephen King.
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The lady at the bookstore told me Bryson was "laugh out loud funny," but while I didn't find myself belly-laughing, I did snort a few times, making Nathan ask me, "The book?" Bryson sets out to re-explore the America his dad took them vacationing through. He begins in Des Moines, Iowa, his hometown, and explores to the East first. The moment after he looks down his nose at touristy towns (pointing out the ice cream parlors, the fat tourists in gaudy clothes, and the cheap trinkets and stupid souvenirs), he joins the crowd and pays a ridiculous amount of money for ice cream and a ticket to a museum. He points out racial issues still alive and well in America in the mid-80's (though there are still racial issues today, so his points are rather timeless), the underfunding of America's national parks, and the loss of small-town America along scenic highways since the interstate system was started.
So, a funny book, part travel, part memoir, and part humor.
Now reading: Misery by Stephen King.