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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
4/5 - interesting collection of historical events, places and facts connected to the home/house.
A better title for this book would have been one that implied that it's a short history of English homes. I get why the book is so centred on the history of English homes, and some stuff from North America, but it still bothered me that the author never ever mentions something from another continent, such as Asia, or even other regions in Europe (other countries such as Italy or ancient Greece are mentioned just as a means to describe the history of a particular trend or architecture).
Not the best one to read in Audiobook format, since the author jumps very quickly from fact to fact, name to name and you need to pause and go back often in order to understand what's happening and how everything was connected.
A better title for this book would have been one that implied that it's a short history of English homes. I get why the book is so centred on the history of English homes, and some stuff from North America, but it still bothered me that the author never ever mentions something from another continent, such as Asia, or even other regions in Europe (other countries such as Italy or ancient Greece are mentioned just as a means to describe the history of a particular trend or architecture).
Not the best one to read in Audiobook format, since the author jumps very quickly from fact to fact, name to name and you need to pause and go back often in order to understand what's happening and how everything was connected.