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lmdo 's review for:
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
Maybe I am deluding myself by thinking that I enjoy Bill Bryson or these mass comprehensive books that touch in everything but also nothing. With this book, I was expecting something entirely different in term of the topic covered. The use of the word "home" and "private life" are misleading, this is more about the physical house and everything within from staircases to the many tangents made. I was expecting and hoping for something that looked at homes and the ways in people actually live. For example, a history of domesticity or the family unit, how that varies across borders or traditions that people have in different cultures. It did end with a brief mention of climate change though and I used one of the random things mentioned in conversation later that day. Although, I can't remember what now...