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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House: A Memoir by Daum, Meghan
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- ISBN
- 9780307454843
- Book Title
- Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Humor
- Topic
- Personal Growth / Happiness, Investments & Securities / Real Estate, Personal Memoirs, General
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 8.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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In this laugh-out-loud personal journey , acclaimed author Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment fantasies and her mother's decorating manias to her own "hidden room" dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the true story of one woman's quest for the four perfect walls to call home.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307454843
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9780307454843
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Book Title
Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Growth / Happiness, Investments & Securities / Real Estate, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Humor
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
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"Funny, charming and shocking. . . . [Chronicles] an obsession that threatens to upend sanity and bank accounts. . . . Daum has a rare gift in her ability to keep readers laughing through her own tears. . . . Her spirit is generous, her writing is buoyant, and her heart is open to all the ways in which a house holds the key to happiness. Perfection has nothing to do with it." - The New York Times Book Review "Wonderful. . . . Like having a long, glorious, no-holds-barred conversation with your smartest, funniest friend about all the juicy topics: real estate, class envy, bad dates, family identity, and the discrepancies between the lives we aspire to and the lives we lead. I'm awed by Daum's honesty and talent." -Curtis Sittenfeld "A delightful dissection of the real estate obsession that's a hallmark of our age, recession or no." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Self-deprecatingly funny. . . . Daum uses her lifelong obsession with finding the ideal living space to probe domestic desire, a deeper restlessness than the search for quick profits." - The Wall Street Journal "Honest and endearing . . . richly drawn. . . . Daum captures the now-gone moment when real estate became a national obsession, chronicling the shared madness of those who could only take breaks from watching HGTV to discuss closing costs. . . . As she moves from coast to coast and in between, Daum is consistently relatable." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Suffused with humor and desire. . . . Alternately whimsical, philosophical and psychologically probing. . . . [An] enchanting, compelling memoir on the impossibility of resisting an irresistible object of desire." - The Miami Herald "Daum tackles real estate-or, more pointedly, the fixation, anxiety and magical thinking that often accompany it-with wit and a gift for self-parody. . . . Her prose has smarts, style and personality, but never turns pretentious. . . . It's a pleasure to read this author as she revisits comic misadventures and wrangles with a hot-button topic." - Time Out New York "Vividly described. . . . Daum exposes the modern real-estate-mad female underground, where open houses (visited in rabid two-women teams) are a seasonal blood sport, Zillow is a verb, and where remodeling a collapsing farmhouse into a writer's retreat could instantly, we imagine, transform us into the George Plimpton of the prairie." - The Atlantic Monthly "Entertaining. . . . Like a romantic comedy in which Daum always seems to rent Mr. Wrong. . . . Don't be surprised if you race through Life Would Be Perfect in a single night." - Richmond Times-Dispatch "Daum is the essential Generation X-er. . . . She radiates the eternal youthfulness and the fear of commitment that define her cohort. . . . Life Would Be Perfect is the memoir of how the wandering Ms. Daum finally put down some roots. . . . A great book." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Timely. . . . Daum [is] a fine writer-candid, reflective, stylish, fun and a bit prickly. Throughout the book, she offers an unflinching portrayal of her anxieties and her aspirations. . . . When she finally realizes that a house is not what will make her whole, you can't help but breathe a sigh of relief." -Associated Press "In this funny, horrifying (she came this close to buying a place near a roaring interstate because she was smitten with a landing), achingly honest memoir, Daum explores the way we wrap our identities in our surroundings, at one point wondering, 'Did the house look sexy on me?' Home truths, indeed." - More, "Quickened pulse, night sweats, insomnia . . . all the depredations of a love affair gone wrong. Anyone over the age of 30 who lived, worked or breathed in any proximity to the real estate market in the last decade will immediately recognize the signs of house lust. But I spent years as the editor ofHouse & Garden,and I don't think I ever encountered a case like Meghan Daum's. . . .Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That Houseadroitly manages to be funny, charming and shocking in its brutal frankness about an obsession that threatens to upend sanity and bank accounts. Luckily, as wasnotthe case for so many caught in the national grip of cheap mortgages, Daum's is the story of a love too big to fail. . . . She is smart about what makes a house beautiful in the eye of the beholder. . . . There's a mania about moving that cleverly masks a dread even more profound than that of not being human, and that is the dread of not being married. . . . Daum promises she doesn't intend to write a book with the happily-ever-after banality that's beginning to get on my nerves. Is it becoming a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good house must be in search of a husband? It speaks volumes in Daum's favor, then, that when she does fall in love, this reader took as much pleasure in it as I hope she will someday, when she isn't preoccupied with the important things like bursting closets, crammed bookshelves, and the detritus of combining two households, two lives. Daum has a rare gift in her ability to keep readers laughing through her own tears. Among the many wonderful things about houses is that they are such handy metaphors for so many things: love or loss, renewal or collapse. . . . Daum revels in all of it. There are times you want to sob with her, as she bloodies her knuckles and throws out her back, wrenching her reluctant house closer to its best possible self. Daum's journey from the buying of a house to the making of a home is arduous. There are times when it all gets so scary you hold your breath before crossing the threshold with her. But her spirit is generous, her writing is buoyant, and her heart is open to all the ways in which a house holds the key to happiness. Perfection has nothing to do with it." -Dominique Browning,The New York Times Book Review(May 9, 2010) "For all the talk of tranches and credit-default swaps, the recent financial meltdown began with something far more primal: house lust and its accompanying dreams and delusions. . . . The fantasy of a life transformed is what makes the ads and features in interior magazines so enticing-no fashion or celebrity magazine glamorizes its subjects as thoroughly asArchitectural DigestorElle Decor-and what gives HGTV's low-budget shows their addictive appeal. The longing for the perfect life in the perfect environment can make real-estate listings and 'For Sale' signs as evocative as novels. . . . A stock-market bubble may create financial hardship, but a housing bust breaks hearts. Although Daum did buy a house in 2004 and watched its value rise and then fall, her self-deprecatingly funny memoir isn't a tale of real-estate speculation. Rather she uses her lifelong obsession with finding the ideal living space to probe domestic desire, a deeper restlessness than the search for quick profits. . . . Like a traditional comedy,Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That Houseends with a wedding and the promise of settled adulthood. Except that Ms. Daum and her husband barely fit into the tiny rundown place she eventually purchased . . . She hopes to move to some place bigger, some place truly their own. What else should we expect from a child enraptured by Laura Ingalls Wilder'sLittle Housestories, where every book starts or ends with a move? Moving is the America
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