This is a book published strictly for fundraising purposes for CARE. I think I received it as a gift last Christmas, and just uncovered it and read it. It's under 50 pages long, a very quick read, and of course written with Bryson's wit and particular viewpoint.
Unfortunately, it's short in a lot of ways besides length: mostly short of cohesiveness and depth. Still, any way CARE can raise funds to help people who need the amount of help the refugees in Kenya need is probably worthwhile.
1) A book must have "hooked" me within the first ten or twenty pages. If, after fifty or so pages, it hasn't lived up to the hook, throw it back!
2) Other reasons for not finishing a book include: dull writing and/or subject, manipulative writing, "dirty tricks," crises in my life, and any combination of the above.
3) If a book sits next to the bed for more than three weeks while others come and go, give it up!
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