niksen 's review for:

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

3.0

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I mostly enjoyed this book. I don't think it hung together as well as some of his other work. Sometimes when we were off on a discussion of a fascinating topic, like seventeenth century surgery, it is hard to remember that the book is ostensibly about the house. Still there's no pithier synthesizer of social history than Bryson.