atomato 's review for:

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

2.0

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There's a lot of interesting stuff in here but I didn't really think it was a history of private life. More like a history of wacky, unknown people (mostly men, almost all British or American) who did or didn't get very rich inventing something. Sooooo, kinda boring, in other words. I wish more of the book had been like the part about paint, detailing what colors people liked in the past and how they put all sorts of dangerous chemicals in paint to achieve the color effects they wanted.

I suppose that kind of book would be boring to other people, though.