Books I've Read

Interesting, but did not finish it, it was on a seven-day-checkout. August, 2009.

A super train travel from China to Russia and back over the weirded-out wastelands of, I guess, Siberia. It was OK.

Mistaya gets herself kicked out of prep school, so she heads back to Landover where she ends up in the kingdom's library.

Stars Wars, Episode 1. Just like the movie with a little more background.

Susan works for the NSA who sends her fiancee to retrieve a crypto "key".

I guess there is a reason books are best sellers. Two weeps.

Several robots in crates get washed up on a deserted island. Nice story, middle school level. Book one in a series.

Ned recounts his experiences as a Navajo Code Talker during World War II to his grandchildren. Very good.

Tells how the connections between various caves in the Mammoth cave area of Kentucky were discovered. Lots of maps, photos, and drawings. Almost too much detail. A holo-map of the area would have been useful! Interesting that Wil Crowther's (Colossal Cave game fame) wife was on the final connection team.

Published in 1930, 85 pages. A bizarre story of a spark (as in, from Ben Franklin's kite experiment, literally!) who turns into a real boy, or something, I don't know. This is probably someone's cherished childhood book, but, other than the charming illustrations by the author, I didn't much care for it.

A history of the science we know about planet Earth. A lot of detail, but interesting, and interesting anecdotes in the Bryson manner.

The author and his friend Steve Katz head out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Humerous and interesting.

Mr. Bryson tells us rather little about his home, which he is ostensibly reporting on, but a great deal about everything else. A very interesting book which caused me to spend many hours looking stuff up.

Comments on life in the U.S. after being away for 20 years

Bill travels Australia. Very good and interesting.

Subtitle "English & How It Got That Way". I particulary like the chapter on swearing. Very interesting, but lots of information, spiced with humour.

Bill travels Europe complaining about litter and recalling a former journey with the incredible Stephen Katz. Very humorous!

If it's Bryson, it's interesting. And it is. Now I know even more (or even less?) since I read Chute's book.

Old Guy Bryson recounts his life as a youth. Hey, wait, he is the same age as me!

I can't believe he has never met anyone who remember the George Burns and Gracie Allen television show (pg. 178). I believe I forced MY kids to watch it, I loved it so much!

Reporter Britt Montero gets the story on a fresh corpse that washes up on the beach in Florida, of a woman who died ten years before.