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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
by Bill Bryson
Ooh, yes please. This is juuust the kind of thing I like. It reminds me of trying to organize a closet, where one thing leads to something else, and something else, and something else until you find yourself in the middle of re-installing a light fixture and you look over and the closet is in a mess all over the floor...anyway where was I?
Yeah, anyway, it's actually much better organized than I make it sound, and somehow manages to be organized chronologically AND spatially AND at the same time charming, and on practically every page you go "huh! I didn't know that!"
Warning: the "Bedroom" and "Nursery" chapters are not for the faint of heart.
Yeah, anyway, it's actually much better organized than I make it sound, and somehow manages to be organized chronologically AND spatially AND at the same time charming, and on practically every page you go "huh! I didn't know that!"
Warning: the "Bedroom" and "Nursery" chapters are not for the faint of heart.
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| 01/28/2011 | page 190 |
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38.0% | "This is the book that that Chris Kimball book was trying to be and failed." |
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Oh dear. All these Bill B's -- I think you're right. OK, Bryson isn't THAT catholic in his interests....
The catholic nature of your reading material is so impressive. I loved the review, and I also liked Bill Bryson's "Heat". Clearly you share an inexhaustible curiosity with him... and me.