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Title: Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement by Dominique Browning ISBN: 0-7432-2693-3 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great read!
Comment: Reminiscent of Jackson McCrae's "THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD--A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens" (though that book goes very deep into the lives of houses), Browning's book is full of heart-warming stories and insight into what really makes up a home. The details she notices are amazing and she brings them to life for us with a sense of poetry and style. What a brave and caring book she's given us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly beautiful collection of essays
Comment: As a longtime fan of personal essays -- and one who teaches writing workshops on the topic -- I found this to be an exceptionally enjoyable and beautifully written collection. Best of all, as a homemaker who loves the domestic arts, I think Browning strikes just the right tone of love and yearning for home.
Most of us are too busy these days to spend all the time we'd like creating a home and garden, or nurturing a young family. Browning hones in on these desires and serves up poignant pieces everyone can relate to -- even if we're not divorced or uprooted. I would love to see more of her work (yes, I subscribe to her magazine just to read her essays) in book form!
Rating: 4
Summary: At last! Someone who gets it!
Comment: In her essays on life in a home, Dominique Browning, editor of House & Garden, offers her own intensely personal experience with the ways in which the home environment affects and is affected by divorce, self-esteem, and vice versa.
Her descriptions of her rooms, her struggle to find a good living room couch (after successfully finding a kitchen sofa), her explanations of plants and flowers to her young sons, all create the feeling that you are on the phone with an old friend working to describe her evolving life. Her deep understanding of the ways in which our environments affect us (for better, for worse, just like marriage) leads the readers to feel like the changes we've been tempted to make might just be logical after all.
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Title: Paths of Desire : The Passions of a Suburban Gardener by Dominique Browning ISBN: 0743246659 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Gardener's Bed-Book : Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by RICHARDSON WRIGHT, DOMINIQUE BROWNING ISBN: 0812968735 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Spiritual Housecleaning: Healing the Space Within by Beautifying the Space Around You by Kathryn L. Robyn ISBN: 1572242396 Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Choosing Happiness: Keys to a Joyful Life by Alexandra Stoddard ISBN: 0060008040 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Well- Lived Life by Dominique Browning, House & Garden Magazine ISBN: 284323445X Publisher: Assouline Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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