Title: House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We LiveAuthor: Winifred Gallagher
In House Thinking, Gallagher takes us on a tour of her New York brownstone, breaking down how each room in her house is used today, and how rooms of this type were used in the past. It's an interesting idea, but I think that Gallagher's take on it falls short-- mostly because it really needs pictures. She'll go on for pages and pages talking about some modern architect's interpretation of a child's bedroom, for example, but a photo or two of that bedroom would have given us the same information much more succinctly. I also felt like it was a weird merging of factual book about how houses work with a memoir of her own personal house and her family's journey to make it a home.
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