Book For The Week - 7/1/11

AT HOME by Bill Bryson

     I finished listening to Bill Bryson's At Home on my way to work yesterday.   It was great fun but I would recommend reading it rather than listening to it as in order to really enjoy it  a person needs to be able to back up and re read a paragraph or even turn back to a prior chapter.  In the book Bryson walks you from room to room and explains the history of normal every day items.  I had thought I would choose a favorite topic to tell you about but there were too many favorites.  From the life of Mr Mason who invented the canning jar to the people that went into the jungles of South America and the forests of North America for excursions that lasted years to gather plant samples,  I found my self fascinated with every word.  The only chapter that I really felt a bit squeamish during was the one that covered pests,  starting with rats and going all the way down to germs,  covering bed bugs and all sorts of things in between.   And I even found the part of that chapter on bats interesting.   Follow the link to learn more and enjoy the video which is a portion of the audio book.