I started reading ' A Short History of Nearly Everything' and immediately got hooked to it. The book starts with a discussion of atoms and how zillions of these tiny particles combine unknowingly in a cosmic effort to create us. Bill Bryson puts it as "....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." This is, in short, tall order. I can not wait to finish this book.

All my friends , please gift me Bill Bryson's books!