Friday, 3 May 2019

Bill Bryson - The Road To Little Dribbling


Rating: 5/5

Review:
A gem

We all know that you just can’t go wrong with Bill Bryson. I loved Notes From A Small Island all those years ago and The Road To Little Dribbling is just as good. I has all those Bryson hallmarks: he’s very funny, he’s humane, he notices and values all those intangibles which are so often lost through greed, ignorance or neglect and, above all, he has a delightful willingness to be pleased with what he finds. When he isn’t pleased, he says so – often very funnily – but Bryson always looks to find pleasure and enjoyment in things, people and places and can bring that pleasure vividly to life for us.

This scarcely needs another recommendation from me, but it has one anyway. It’s a gem of a book.

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