Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Home is the place we feel utterly comfortable. Things are arranged the way we like. The place smells right. When I come home from a long trip, I can feel my shoulders come down from around my ears and everything relaxes. We like to think of ourselves as the masters of our home, but there is a surprising amount of history and culture that goes into the way we set up our homes. In At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson looks into almost every topic one could image as it relates to our homes and private lives. He discovers why most forks have four tines and not six, why we say we make our beds and not set them (or some other verb), why rooms have the names they do, and myriad other oddities. I was completely hooked...

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