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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Posted by Jason Hussong on Sunday, January 31, 2010,
Recently I was on a hike and one of the topic of conversations was travel literature. We talked about some of our favorite books, what we were reading now, and what inspired us. My hiking buddy, Kory Kilmer, mentioned the one that really caught him was John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. It was right at about this time that the realization struck me that I hadn't turned a page in a Steinbeck book since high school.

Back when I was in school I hated to read. Well, not so much a hate to r...

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a fantastic memoir of what life was like growing up in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1950s for Bill Bryson. And as far as I'm concerned, despite a 30 year difference, it's not much different than what it was like growing up for me just a bit farther up Interstate 35 in the Twin Cities.

With each page I turned I felt as though I swam a lap in my own memory. The book helped me recall so much of my own childhood that I found it quite difficult to put down. T...

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