Every now and then, I'm in the mood for some Bill Bryson. This time, it's At Home: A Short History of Private Life, in which he examines his own home, a presumably lovely former rectory in rural England. Since his next book just came out (One Summer: America, 1927), I figured I probably shouldn't get too much farther behind.Bill Bryson made a name for himself with his humorous travel writing, but his stint of writing travel books was both preceded and followed by his writings in popular history. At Home is his investigation into how we live in the place we live, and how that place came to be.
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