My Life in Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Life in Houses write by Margaret Forster. This book was released on 2014-11-06. My Life in Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses
A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses write by Larry Haun. This book was released on 2011. A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the production houses he built in the San Fernando Valley, and the Habitat for Humanity homes he devotes his time to now. It's an engaging read written by a veteran builder with a thoughtful awareness of what was intrinsic to home building in the past and the many ways it has evolved. Builders and history lovers will appreciate his deep connection to the natural world, yearning for simplicity, respect for humanity, and evocative notion of what we mean by "home.""--
A House of My Own
A House of My Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A House of My Own write by Sandra Cisneros. This book was released on 2015-10-06. A House of My Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction • From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: "This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Houston Chronicle From Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades—and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last. Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers.
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House write by Meghan Daum. This book was released on 2010-05-04. Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home. After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska; from the Midwest to the West Coast and back—Meghan Daum was living in Los Angeles, single and in her mid-thirties, and devoting obscene amounts of time not to her writing career or her dating life but to the pursuit of property: scouring Craigslist, visiting open houses, fantasizing about finding the right place for the right price. Finally, near the height of the real estate bubble, she succumbed, depleting her life’s savings to buy a 900-square-foot bungalow, with a garage that “bore a close resemblance to the ruins of Pompeii” and plumbing that “dated back to the Coolidge administration.” From her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden room” dreams, Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. With delicious wit and a keen eye for the absurd, she has given us a pitch-perfect, irresistible tale of playing a lifelong game of house.
My Life & 1,000 Houses
My Life & 1,000 Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Life & 1,000 Houses write by Mitch Stephen. This book was released on 2008-11. My Life & 1,000 Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Straightforward and to the point, My Life and 1,000 Houses: Financial Freedom Through Real Estate by Mitch Stephen is the exhilarating story of a high school graduate who became financially free by bu
