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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1998) (edit title/settings)

Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

by Bill Bryson (Author) (edit contributors)

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After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They... read more

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  • Mrs. Bryson: Stern and knowledgeable, enjoys the different things about living in the USA as to England (such as people actually bag your own stuff FOR you in the US, much to her glee) she often humorlessly dictates Mr. Bryson (Bill) in a teasingly and witting way.
  • Bradley: Very funny bunch of notes on returning to america
  • Bill: American author
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  • “We expend huge efforts exhorting ourselves to "Say No to Drugs". then go to the drugstore and buy them by the armloads.”
  • “Do you honestly believe that you are going to thwart a terrorist by requiring him to show you a laminated photograph of himself?”
    Bryson

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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life.

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Introduction
1. Coming Home
2. Mail Call
3. Drug Culture
4. What's Cooking?
5. Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down
6. Rule Number 1: Follow All Rules
7. Take Me Out to the Ballpark
8. Help!
9. A Visit to the Barbershop
10. On the Hotline
11. Design Flaws
12. Room Service
13. Consuming Pleasures
14. The Numbers Game
15. Junk-Food Heaven
16. How to Have Fun at Home
17. Tales of the North Woods
18. The Cupholder Revolution
19. Number, Please
20. Friendly People
21. Why Everyone is Worried
22. The Risk Factor
23. The War on Drugs
24. Dying Accents
25. Inefficiency Report
26. Why No One Walks
27. Wide-Open Spaces
28. Snoopers at Work
29. Lost at the Movies
30. Gardening with My Wife
31. Ah, Summer
32. A Day at the Seaside
33. On Losing a Son
34. Highway Diversions
35. Fall in New England
36. The Best American Holiday
37. Deck the Halls
38. Fun in the Snow
39. The Mysteries of Christmas
40. Life in a Cold Climate
41. Hail to the Chief
42. Lost in Cyberland
43. Your Tax Form Explained
44. Book Tours
45. The Waste Generation
46. A Slight Inconvenience
47. At the Drive-In
48. Drowning in Red Tape
49. Life's Mysteries
50. So Sue Me
51. The Great Outdoors
52. Death Watch
53. In Praise of Diners
54. Shopping Madness
55. The Fat of the Land
56. Your New Computer
57. How to Rent a Car
58. The Wasteland
59. The Flying Nightmare
60. Enough Already
61. At a Loss
62. Old News
63. Rules for Living
64. Our Town
65. Word Play
66. Last Night on the Titanic
67. Property News
68. Life's Technicalities
69. An Address to the Graduating Class of Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire
70. Coming Home: Part II

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  1. Bill Bryson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0385410190
Page Count: 320

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