Genre: Book
Grade: A
Notable People: Bill Bryson
Title: A Walk in the Woods
Review: My good friend, the Nave (short for Naven , as in “ the phone book’s here, the phone book’s here) , gave me this book for my birthday-before we left the hinterlands for Vermont. He told me I would laugh out loud while reading it, which I took to be a metaphor….but NOT. I could not stop laughing out loud… even while reading in bed, and waking up Jenn and Lucy. Bryson is REALLY funny in a very dry, acerbic kind of way….and this may be the best “travel” book I have ever read. Two old, out of shape guys decide they will rediscover America by thru-walking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine (2200 miles). Needless to say, adventure and misfortune awaits. I have now rounded up five more of Bryson’s deep catalog of “travel books” from the local library, which typically is not that well stocked- but has lot of Bryson. Turns out everyone in the world (almost) had read this guy …but me. Gonna start from the beginning…too god to pass up. Thanks, Nave!