roaringmamalion 's review for:

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

4.0

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I am a fiction reader - I love the smooth narrative that I can read quickly. Bryson isn’t a fiction writer, and he packs in so many important details (and funny comments), that I can’t skip a word…making his books even lengthier. My mild distaste for nonfiction is on me, and Bryson is going to excel regardless of MY opinions. This title was more focus on Britain than I expected at the outset, but I still found it interesting. It also fairly successfully eliminated any lingering desire to have lived in the past. I’ll take mu creature comforts, and I’ll give my kids a childhood. It’s interesting, detailed, and informative, but it took every bit of the nearly three weeks I read it.