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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
It is a really interesting idea to tell stories about history through everyday items and the concept is unique.
Bryson uses rooms of an old victorian house as loose jumping-off points to talk about all topics concerning private life through the centuries and especially during the last 150 years. I came away feeling extremely lucky to live in the time I am living in, since every aspect of life seemed to hold fresh horrors.
Bryson writes well and his pacing is good. This 700-page non-fiction book seemed to fly by. At times it did feel like a bit of a barrage of names that I could not really keep track of, but that is inherent to history - many people shaped it.
Bryson uses rooms of an old victorian house as loose jumping-off points to talk about all topics concerning private life through the centuries and especially during the last 150 years. I came away feeling extremely lucky to live in the time I am living in, since every aspect of life seemed to hold fresh horrors.
Bryson writes well and his pacing is good. This 700-page non-fiction book seemed to fly by. At times it did feel like a bit of a barrage of names that I could not really keep track of, but that is inherent to history - many people shaped it.