Nesting: Tales of Love, Life, and Real Estate

by Lois Wyse

Celebrating the emotional importance of home, this collection of images and words about shelter and the memory it creates offers humor and poignancy to anyone who has felt a sense of home. Tour.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Leticia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I expected. I liked a few stories but they were very simple, bland.

[In · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cheesy little essays all about home. Not my kind of book, but I finished it bc it was an easy read and I love the art that accompanies the writing.

[Mindy Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars. It was okay. It seems like the kind of book that could be thrown together easily in a few weeks. The brief morals of the stories were sometimes meaningful but often kind of lame and random, and I didn't agree with some of the more liberal ones. Some stories were first-hand accounts while others were obviously rewritten by the author, who has a rather feminine writing style, so this book seems like more of a personal hobby than anything really professional and perfected. Most of the characters seemed to be somewhat artsy fartsy people writing about New York and California homes, so I would have appreciated a wider contributing base of storytellers than just people the author knew. And depsite the fact that many stories involved divorces or second marriages, it had kind of a dreamy, idealistic feel that I felt neglected the reality of arguments and other unpleasant things experienced in most homes. Stories about homes that were loved despite those things would have been much richer and deeper, I think--more in tune with reality and really filling the heart rather than just being nice sentiments.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Simple. Very. Simple.

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful collection of short stories about home. Really enjoyable...I haven't read a book of short stories in years.