{"id":16759,"date":"2017-07-19T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2017-07-19T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T13:21:13","slug":"book-report-this-old-dump-by-laura-jensen-walker-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/book-report-this-old-dump-by-laura-jensen-walker-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: This Old Dump<\/i> by Laura Jensen Walker (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookThis is a mild little humorous book about renovating or doing projects about your home with your spouse. Basically, the author recounts stories from friends and her own life, sometimes in a manner of paragraphs and sometimes just a sentence or two. The anecdotes are grouped in chapters by renovation and project type, like painting, wallpapering, plumbing, working with contractors, and so on.<\/p>\n

The book is amusing, sometimes, but it doesn’t really rise to the level of Erma Bombeck<\/a> or Jean<\/a> Kerr<\/a>. The author must have a following, though, as she mentions once or twice that she had to push off this book because her publisher wanted her to write or collate a couple of other books first. So she’s got that going for her.<\/p>\n

But it’s not especially relatable to me even though I did just (with my beautiful wife) paint our living room (after having bought the paint a year ago for the project–like my sainted mother, I don’t like to rush into anything). <\/p>\n

Your mileage may vary, of course.<\/p>\n