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The House On Teacher's Lane: A Memoir Of Home, Healing, And Love's Hardest Questions (2010)

by Rachel Simon(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0452296188 (ISBN13: 9780452296183)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Plume

review 1: This was an enjoyable read. The premise is that a 40-something woman renovates her home with her husband, and is reluctant. Through the process, they encounter snags and difficulties that test their patience, and force the woman, Rachel, to evaluate her own life and tendencies in the process. At times, the book made me think about something in my own life, and at times, it seemed a little too contrived (I mean, does every bump in the road to home renovation lead to personal discovery? In here, it did.) The characters were likeable, and you grew to know them by the end of the story.
review 2: I initially was a bit skeptical about this book, but I thought the writing was truly sophisticated and I was intrigued what all this building talk was leading to. Come... more to find out the literal renovation, although interesting, was not what kept me reading - it was the metaphor of said renovation. The writer's exploration of her own life decisions in the midst of picking cabinets and paints - deciding against having children, her relationship with her mother, her interpretation of feelings within her own signicant other relationship, her work pitfalls - plays a part in making her house a home. We have all been there - whether it's moving, renovating, or simply painting a room, but she takes a fresh approach to what this all really means on another level. Nicely done. It makes me want to redo my house! less

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