Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island

1995 • 368 pages

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Re-read this book after being in the UK for 6+ years. Most of Bryson's observations on British culture are still relevant. I hope he'll write an update next year for the book's 20th birthday.

October 6, 2013
February 20, 2015
April 24, 2021

There's a difference between being funny and being mean; between describing and complaining.

August 6, 2019

Calling all anglophiles...read the opening chapter about how the distance Americans drive for a taco represents a journey of enormous undertaking for most English countryside folk.

January 1, 2004
June 22, 2014