Jennie's review
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Michael Pollan
i wish i ever made it through the poetics of space
Ah, just saw that you read this too! It's my first foray into Michael Pollan, and I was impressed by how he made the whole process accessible. Plus, I'm the building equivalent of a foodie (a buildie?) who can't cook, so that may explain why I loved it so much more than you did.
I'm due for some of his food writing too.
Jennie's review
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan
Jennie's review
rating:
bookshelves:
gave-up,
general-non-fiction
recommended for: my dad
surprisingly, my michael pollan binge ended with this book. after about 100 pages, it was terribly overdue to the botanic garden library, and i found the detailed reports on joinery and other technical elements of construction quite boring. the balance between the experiential and the theoretical is similar to pollans' other works, but i think this one just gets too bogged down in the minutia of the experience of building. i did enjoy the recap of "the poetics of space" (a book recommended to me by my college photography teacher that i tried to reread this year with little success). i also liked the overview of post-modern architecture, a topic i'm probably never going to bother to read up on my own. my dad would really like this book - i think i will buy it for him for xmas.
i wish i ever made it through the poetics of space
Ah, just saw that you read this too! It's my first foray into Michael Pollan, and I was impressed by how he made the whole process accessible. Plus, I'm the building equivalent of a foodie (a buildie?) who can't cook, so that may explain why I loved it so much more than you did.I'm due for some of his food writing too.