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fireballs619  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hi I reached my 30 book goal for the summer

Have you read One Hundred Years of Solitude? It is one of my favorite books, and is a book that profits from multiple readings.

How is One Summer, America 1927? I've never read anything by Bill Bryson, but that one certainly looks interesting.





user-inactivated  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Second tng.

Bryson's career has evolved and he's written lots of styles. Early in his career he wrote memoir-ish things. Then he began some investigative reporting style stuff. I'm incredibly pressed for time but let me just recommend the book he wrote on Shakespeare--

thenewgreen  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't really have a top 10 books of all time, but if I did One hundred years of solitude would most certainly be in it.