Monday, January 22, 2007

2. Home, The Blueprint of our Lives


edited by John Edwards, Rated B+

A coffee-table type book with short essays on Home and what it meant to each of the 60 people who wrote about the homes they grew up in. It includes novelist Isabel Allende, chef Mario Batali, musician John Mellencamp, quarterback Joe Montana and architect Maya Lin to numerous to mention here of lesser-known people from all walks of life. The first-person testimony is very effective