Just finished reading: Bill Bryson’s “Short History”
There’s a small smattering of books that I put aside for a second reading at a later date, but this is the first one that I’ve wanted to re-read almost immediately following finishing it for the first time. At least the first in about 40 years. And it’s not because of big print, a paucity of pages, or I didn’t finish coloring in one of the pictures.
Quite the opposite, really. Short History has a LOT of pages, SMALL font (at least in the edition I read), and NO illustrations. But all that aside, it was so jam-packed with interesting material that was written with such elegant prose and more than the odd splattering of humor, it was a pleasure to read. And will be again, I’m sure.
