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, 1 June 2017

Challenge 16: A Book You Learned About Because Of This Challenge

Ida's book: "The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From A Small Island" by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, 2015)

So this is a book that Donna read, and I have since then heard a lot of good things about Bill Bryson, so I'm gonna give it a go!

Comments:
Overall, this was a really enjoyable read. Bill Bryson clearly loves the UK as I think only a foreigner can (myself included). His writing is witty and warm and the amount of knowledge gained about tiny villages and moorlands is pretty staggering. However, I do find that some of his opinions can be filed under 'old man refuses to acknowledge change', especially his dig about trans* people was a low point, as were some of his other utterances.
So my enjoyment of this book is somewhat dampened byt this, but his writing can't be faulted, and I obviously agree with him, when he says the the UK is a wonderful country.

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