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At Home by Bill Bryson

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Jun 05, 11

Read in January, 2011

So far so good. This is a room-by-room history of the western European house. It is full of trivia, so I enjoy marking places and announcing factoids to my family. It's first chapter describes the Crystal Palace. Not that edifice in Southern California, but the wondrous mammoth green house in Victorian England--large enough to enclose elms.

This was a very satisfying book, indeed.

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