author: Bill Bryson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/07/05
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.