A Walk in the Woods

The next book club selection found me while I was browsing the shelves at Books-A-Million. Bill Bryson is the author of this adventure tale entitled A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, a book describing the author's "experience while walking the Appalachian Trail" as he "reflects his opinions relating to those experiences." So with summer hiking and outdoor adventures underway, why not right?

Just to show a little support for this read, let's hear what others are saying about it:

"Bryson is...great company right from the start--a lumbering, droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and...Dave Barry. [Readers] may find themselves turning the pages with increasing amusement and anticipation as they discover that they're in the hands of a satirist of the first rank, who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio."
~ The New York Times Book Review

"The Appalachian Trail...consists of some five million steps, and Bryson manages to coax a laugh, and often an unexpectedly startling insight, out of every one he traverses...It is hard not to grin idiotically through all 304 pages...sheer comic entertainment."
~ Kirkus Reviews

Yep, we know how to pick 'em.