I'm a Stranger Here Myself

I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF: Bill Bryson: Broadway Books: Nonfiction

After living in England for 20 years, Bill Bryson returned home to America with his family. I’m a Stranger Here Myself is a collection of pieces about modern American life that he wrote for a British newspaper after returning to the States. While I always find Bill Bryson amusing, the articles in this book were written in the late 1990s, so they felt a little dated. Pieces on the difficulty of programming a VCR or the looming Y2K problem are hard to really find interesting when VCRs are becoming obsolete and Y2K has come and gone without incident. Chapters on more universal issues were a good read, though.

MBC