Home is the place we feel utterly comfortable. Things are arranged the way we like. The place smells right. When I come home from a long trip, I can feel my shoulders come down from around my ears and everything relaxes. We like to think of ourselves as the masters of our home, but there is a surpri...
I've read so many of Bill Bryson's histories and loved them all. I now know more about sewage, building materials, microscopic bugs and the year 1851 than I ever thought I would!
Was at the airport bookshop with my sister, looking for something to bring along to our Sri Lanka + Maldives trip. I recommended this to her (feeling slightly guilty because I myself hadn't finished reading the science/history version of this), but she flipped through it and pronounced it boring, so...
This was a really interesting read! I learned all kinds of facts about many topics I knew very little about. Bill Bryson goes into an incredible amount of detail in this book about the home and everything to do with it.There's a fountain of information on many things of the past, including servants,...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life is Bill Bryson's answer to his own work, A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was about basically the entire universe*. What's the opposite of the history of everything? Apparently the history of just one place: the home. *I haven't read it yet and m...
This was a really interesting read! I learned all kinds of facts about many topics I knew very little about. Bill Bryson goes into an incredible amount of detail in this book about the home and everything to do with it.There's a fountain of information on many things of the past, including servants,...
Very interesting book, but some parts were so boring I had to skip over them. Still, I very much enjoyed learning what I did about mahogany and Skara Brae (to name a few...)
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