- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
- Seeking a Little Truth
- Inspire Virtue
- Classics Considered
- With Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
- The Inquisitive Biologist
- Relevant Obscurity
- Trek Lit Reviews
- Stoic Meditations
- A Pilgrim in Narnia
- Mudpuddle Soup
- Gently Mad
- The Frugal Chariot
- The Social Porcupine
- Gifted w/Thought
- Lydia Schoch
- The Classics Club
- Classical Carousel
- Fanda Classiclit
- Reading In Between the Life
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: home
Brave New Home
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing© 2020 Diane Lind272 pages Prior to the 20th century, Americans enjoyed the same rich diversity of housing options as anyone else: detached houses of varying sizes, granny flats, boarding houses, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged civic awareness, home, housing, intentional community, simple living
5 Comments
Living Downtown
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States © 1994 Paul Groth 399 pages Although today hotels are thought of as places for travelers, at its most basic level a hotel is simply a rented room; an … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged business, cities, goods/services, history, home, housing, social history
3 Comments
Daily Life in Early America
Daily Life in Early America193 pages© 1988 David Freeman Hawke Daily Life in Early America examines up-close the new world European colonists were discovering and recreating for themselves. A social history, focused on daily life, the author begins first … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Colonial America, history, home, manners and morals, social history
1 Comment
More Work for Mother
More Work for Mother: the Ironies of American Housework © 1985 Ruth Cowan 288 pages Throughout the 20thcentury, households were transformed by a new abundance of labor-saving devices, from washing machines to toaster ovens, and processed … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, goods/services, history, home, social history, technology, Technology and Society, women, women's studies
Leave a comment
Look Homeward, America!
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists© 2006 Bill Kauffman250 pages “The Little Way. That is what we seek. That — contrary to the ethic of personal parking spaces, of the dollar-sign god — is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged anarchism, Bill Kauffman, biography, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, conservative, Distributism, Front Porch Reading, home, libertarianism, literature, localism, organic, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, subsidiarity
1 Comment
What’s Wrong with the World
What’s Wrong with the World© 1910 G. K. Chesterton200 pages What’s wrong with the world? Too many people are proposing answers to the wrong questions. What’s Wrong is a curious collection of thoughts, voiced at the turn of the 20thcentury, … Continue reading
The Gift of Good Land
The Gift of Good Land© 1981 Wendell Berry281 pages Wendell Berry is a philosopher, poet, and more, but before all else he is a farmer. He is a faithful son of Kentucky devoted to the land, to the stewardship of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged agrarianism, community, ecology, environmentalism, home, manners and morals, stewardship, sustainability, Wendell Berry
Leave a comment