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A carregar... Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our Housepor Julie Myerson
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Houses have history. The thought must have struck all of us, here in London's dense and busy streets. Julie Myerson takes on the task of uncovering the history of her house and its inhabitants, even back to the mid-late Victorian borough surveyors parcelling out and permitting the muddy fields of urban dynamic growth. She animates the domestic realm, the overlap of Intimate and detached, and she has a fine way with words: he "has the hots for her", "those sleeves were murder..." It's imaginatively done, and one feels that odd nostalgia for the times beyond one's own days - for when travel meant "voyages" and relationships could be sealed and stored in tied bundles of letters. As for the present, the author includes her own family's doings and feelings as she digs deeper in her researches. One can sympathise with their door slammings and wavering interest; although well-executed, it's still a mundane sequence that's as easy to skim past as to read, an uneventful soap. ( ) Re-read - 5 stars. Original read - 5 stars (2005) I think I must have been reading a different book to the other reviewers. I thought this book was great - really interesting and a riveting read. It's certainly not "unreadable". It's the story of the author, Julie Myerson, tracing all the people who have lived in her house and therefore this includes herself and her family, which I think is a necessary part of the process. She also revisits the houses she has lived in throughout her life and I expect that thinking about the former occupants of her current home started her thinking about her own past. It certainly started me thinking about where I have lived and who might have lived in my present home. She does embellish things somewhat but after all, she is a novelist and she is trying to make the book interesting and readable. Her embellishments are largely based on facts with her just padding out what she already knows. A book that just lists the bare facts would not be particularly interesting to the general reader. I also looked forward to reading about her visits to the various archives and records offices where she found out what was in Wills, birth certificates etc. The only thing that I would agree with the other reviewers about is that there should have been some sort of list showing who was who. Many times I found myself flicking back to passages and pictures trying to remember who was related to who and how. Overall though, I loved this book and would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in history and ordinary people. I really enjoyed this and I couldn't get enough of it. I was sad when the story ended with some details still unfound. I think perhaps this book found the right person at the right time. I started reading it at my chilhood home when Iwas hoem for Christmas. It's an Edwardian houseand it made me wonder about all the people who has lived there before - particularly those who chose our awful yellow woodchip wallpaper. My parents never were much into decorating. Much of it is still there after 27 years (and the dining room, stripped ready for new stuff in around 1995, is still bare). I'm also in the process of buying my first house, which is also old enough to have many stories and I'd love ot find out more about them.I can't wait to walk into my own house andimagine my own ghosts! I found the writing style relaxing and easy to read. I enjoy here wanderings off into imagining as it's exactly the sort of thing I would do. The book isn't really history and isn't really fiction but somewhere between the two. It jumps randomly between different residents of the house, which does make it a little hard to keep track of who's related to who and who lived there at what time. A timeline and a few family trees would have been of use. It is with a huge sense of guilt that I have abandoned this book on p320. It's brilliant, well written and researched. The idea of tracing the history of your house appeals to me as my house is very early 20th century. Not sure therefore, why I lost interest; may be it was because ultimately it wasn't the history of my house and so it felt like reading someone else's family history or may be I just missed a riveting plot and good characterisation. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you did? Well, come meet their type in this enthralling history of an ordinary British family home that digs up layer upon layer of past lives to illuminate our own times, our family life and our heritageThis is the biography of a house, the history of a home. It's an ordinary house, an ordinary home, and ordinary people have lived in it for over a century. But start to explore what they did, who they were, what they believed in, what they desired and they soon become as remarkable, as complicated, as fascinating as anyone. That is exactly what Julie Myerson set out to do. She lives in a typical Victorian terraced family house, of average size, in a typical Victorian suburb (Clapham) and she loves it . She wanted to find out how much those who preceded her loved living there, so she spent hours and hours in the archives at the Family Record Office, the Public Record Office at Kew, local council archives and libraries across the country. no-one had touched since the last sheet of paper in them was typed. As she scraped the years away, underneath she found herself embroiled in a detective hunt as gripping as any noir, and then in another and another. . . Bit by bit, she started to piece together the story of her house, built in 1877, as told by its former occupants in their own words and deeds. The book she has made of that story uncovers a lost 130-year history of happiness and grief, change and prudence, poverty and affluence, social upheaval and technological advance. Most of us are dimly aware that we are not the first person to turn a key in our front door lock, yet we rarely confront the shadows that inhabit our homes. But once you do -- and Julie Myerson shows you how -- you will never bear to part from their company again. This is your home's story too. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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