At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson

At #Home: A Short #History of Private Life - #BillBryson - Chapter: The #Kitchen

The Six Books I Wish I'd Written I'm a jealous guy, and here's why...

Presented with admiration, and frankly, degrees of envy, my new Substack. Please do read, comment on, subscribe to, and share at the link:

open.substack.com/pub/paulrees...

#daisyjones #neilyoung #billbryson #authorcoaching @taylorjenkinsreid.bsky.social

Tile 20! Only a few days until launch.
Today's crop is about the significant moments that gather within our walls.
My new memoir Turn Right At The Rainbow launches on Thursday, #WorldBookDay books2read.com/rightrainbow
#househunting #humour #billbryson #Relocation #worldbookday2026

Read a great travel memoir #awalkinthewoods by #billbryson

Forget what the species lost was on the #AppachianTrail like 50% of species decimated since the 1940s

Breaks my heart to know there were double the bird species when my grandparents were kids. Maybe that's why kids went outside more?

Tile 17. Two artists for you today. @MichaelFairfax with snippets of sculptures he's made over the years. @JanCallicott with wallpaper offcuts after decorating her house. books2read.com/rightrainbow
#turnrightattherainbow #memoir #househunting #humour #billbryson #Relocation

Where is home? Is it for ever? My newest crop of pictures in the ‘home’ crowdsourced collage plays with pebbles, sand, words, and the world. books2read.com/rightrainbow #humour #billbryson #housemoving #househunting #home

Bill Bryson on why he has updated A Short History of Nearly Everything With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist podcast about refreshing his 2003 bestselling book on science

Bill Bryson on why he has updated A Short History of Nearly Everything #Science #ScienceHistory #BillBryson #AHistoryofEverything #ScienceLiterature

OK, I'm going through a phase of reading classic books (and very quickly realising WHY they're classics), so which Jane Austen book should I start with (When I've finished the 2025 update to #BillBryson's excellent Short History of Nearly Everything)

One of Bill Bryson's quotes from A Short History of Nearly Everything that tickles me every time I read it

#billbryson

Author Bill Bryson holding one of his books.

On this day in 1951 Bill Bryson was born.

Born in America, he moved to Britain and worked in a psychiatric hospital. Bryson was a journalist at several papers before becoming a best selling author. He has mostly written about travel and history.

#OnThisDay #BillBryson #History #Travel

Quote of the Day “English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.” — Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue

“English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.” — Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue
#BOTD #BillBryson #QOTD #English…

📖 "En las antípodas" de #BillBryson.
🐨 Literatura, reportaje y cuaderno de viajes sobre #Australia con el que disfrutar y dejarse llevar por su recorrido, su mirada y su documentado análisis.
👉 lucasfh1976.wordpress.com?p=10682

Just got my copy of the new 2nd edition of "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. I really enjoyed the first edition so I'm looking forward to diving into this updated version. 📚
#booksky #billbryson #reading

Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later

#BillBryson

Interview with the fabulous writer. Wait for.... America....

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later

I absolutely adore #BillBryson

Go and visit him; take my car.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later

#BillBryson
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Outstanding interview.

#billbryson

📚Chandalito recomienda 📚:

Breve historia de casi todo
(Bill Bryson)

#chandalitorecomienda
#Libros
#Literatura
#BillBryson

www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Exciting news! The updated edition of 📖 A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is out! 🎉Bill Bryson is officially my new commute companion. 🎧💙
#BillBryson #history #science #BookSky

Book: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Author: Bill Bryson
#booksky #billbryson #books #europe #travel #comedy

One of the funniest books I've ever read. Literally laugh out loud funny!

Need to travel, but your budget won't allow it?

Europe. Notre-Dame. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Switzerland. Vienna. Yugoslavia. The Danube. Belgium. Norway. Milan. Austria.

Bill Bryson revisits picturesque Europe. Have Google Maps ready to tag along!

#booksky #billbryson #neitherherenorthere

A leak in the solar system. Artist's concept showing a disintegrating rocky planet in orbit around a star called KIC 12557548. Something similar could be happening to one or more planets orbiting the star DMPP-1, a new study shows. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

There is a leak in the solar system. Actually, more than one.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un...

#SolarSystem #Leak #BillBryson #DNA #NASA #yoga

En las Antípodas (Bill Bryson) Literatura, Narrativa, libros, reseñas, ficción, ensayo, historia, kafka, narrativa española, narrativa anglosajona, poesía, Sacks, Zweig, Rus

Bryson se fue a Australia y volvió con un catálogo de postales curiosas.
En En las antípodas, el autor pierde profundidad y se queda en lo simpático.
Mi reseña crítica, aquí 👇
🔗 n9.cl/lsb2s
#BillBryson #Australia #LiteraturaDeViajes #Viajes

A leak in the solar system. Artist's concept showing a disintegrating rocky planet in orbit around a star called KIC 12557548. Something similar could be happening to one or more planets orbiting the star DMPP-1, a new study shows. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

There is a leak in the solar system. Actually, more than one.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un...

#SolarSystem #Leak #BillBryson #DNA #NASA #yoga

EVERYTHING EXPLAINED A review of Bill Bryson's *A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) (5 of 5) Bill Bryson is full of wit and humor in his little book...

Everything you need to know? My review of Bill Bryson's *A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) #billbryson #Science #history
History Book Reviews: EVERYTHING EXPLAINED jeremyshistoryreviews.blogspot.com/2010/10/ever...

📚Chandalito recomienda 📚:

Una breve historia de casi todo
(Bill Bryson)

#chandalitorecomienda
#Libros
#Literatura
#BillBryson

www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Just realised I’m now the same age Bill Bryson was when he walked the Appalachian Trail.

Guess you’re never too old to do something truly stupid in the name of adventure.

Motorbike? Paddleboard? Hike? Tattoo? Who knows.
My wife will definitely hate it 😅

#MidlifeCrisis #AWalkInTheWoods #BillBryson

Finished reading Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. A very interesting book and much funnier than a book about the English language should really have any right to be.
#book #nonfiction #billbryson

A popular Popular Science book from early in the century 6/10 #BillBryson #AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything

20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

17/20

#AShortHistoryOfNearlyEverything #BillBryson #booksky