So Good. So, So Good.

Every once in a long while, I stumble upon a book so inexplicably good that, for the life of me, I can’t put down regardless of what I'm doing, or where I am. Bill Bryson’s “A Short History Of Nearly Everything” is just such a book.

An absolute ‘must read’ for any person remotely interested in science and how we evolved to be who (and where) we are. It's a dazzling journey, an intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this book attempts to understand and explain everything that has transpired on our little blue planet; from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author so elequantly puts it "...how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since."

With each page turned, I find myself mesmerized, stealing time here and there just to read another passage; a mad rush to absorb all the astonishing wonder on offer between its covers. As one review succinctly put it, ‘It moves so fast that it’s science on a toboggan!’ I simply refer to it as mind-blowing and enlightening. Go on, have a read, my copy will be done – all 500 plus pages – barely a week after cracking its cover!