Amusing, entertaining, decent. ( )

NF

Not Bill's best. Too whiney. ( )

"Just" a selection of newspaper articles. Which is nice if yu're looking for a lot of short diversions. Not so much if you've been hoping for a connected story like the other random Bryson book I picked up and read before.

Entertaining, but not a story and definitely not, as a blurb says, "one of his best books". ( )

At first each entry was fun and funny to me, and as it went along (that is to say, the longer he was back in the USA) they were less funny and more complaining. This book was my breakfast read, which meant I only read one or two entries a day and ended up having to renew the book twice. Then I stopped reading it in the mornings because it was no longer starting my day with a smile, and when it came time to renew it again I just didn't bother. ( )