{"id":485,"date":"2011-05-05T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:54:53","slug":"review-notes-from-a-big-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/review-notes-from-a-big-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Notes from a Big Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/526391.Notes_from_a_Big_Country\">Notes from a Big Country<\/a><\/em> by Bill Bryson.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/526391.Notes_from_a_Big_Country\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/526391.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"526391\" width=\"98\" height=\"153\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved the other Bryson books I&#8217;ve read (A Short History&#8230; and Notes From a Small Island), so had high hopes for this one. To be honest I found it a little disappointing. There are still some hilarious moments (the first encounter of Bryson&#8217;s head with a football comes to mind), and witty observations. But I hadn&#8217;t realised this book was a compilation of newspaper columns, and they do become a bit formulaic after reading many of them. Still worthwhile, but I&#8217;d recommend Notes From a Small Island over this.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson. I loved the other Bryson books I&#8217;ve read (A Short History&#8230; and Notes From a Small Island), so had high hopes for this one. To be honest I found it a little disappointing. There are still some hilarious moments (the first encounter of Bryson&#8217;s head with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/review-notes-from-a-big-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Notes from a Big Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}