In many of his nostalgic reminiscences, laced by descriptions of a mother who couldn’t cook and who seemed focused elsewhere than upon her family and of a father whose ideas of fun vacations included penny-pinching excursions to obscure places, [Bill] Bryson strikes us as very much like eye-glassed and bunny-suited Ralphie, the narrator of the popular A Christmas Story movie.

I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

A survey has, unsurprisingly, shown that nonorgasmic women are less sexually active.

Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny