In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Challenge 14: A Book Set In Summer


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Donna's Book: "One Summer: America 1927" by Bill Bryson (Transworld, 2013)

 I love Bill Bryson and I've been using this reading challenge to make myself catch up with all of his books that I haven't read yet.  This, obviously, fits nicely in this category!

Comments: 

 Once again, Bill Byrson did not disappoint!  This is a gentle but at the same time fascinating stroll through the main events of the summer of 1927 in the United States.  The main focus is on Charles Lindburgh, and his record-breaking flight from New York to Paris, but other chapters focus on baseball stars Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Grover Cleveland and Herbert Hoover (with a really excellent section on the great Mississippi flood), and the notorious criminals of the age, including Al Capone.  Bryson described both the lead-up to the 'key moment' in 1927 and its aftermath, and thus provides a real insight into the development of the United States in the inter-war years.  This is very different to Bryson's travel books, and so, if you're not interested in history too, this might not be for you.  But Bryson's style never fails to entertain!  I loved it!
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