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The House Always Wins
Book Reviews
The Hartford Courant
Review
A Hilarious Home Book That Tells It Like It Is
March 14, 2008
While reading Marni Jameson's new book, "The House Always Wins" [Da Capo Press,
$25, 334 pages], during my kids' piano lessons, I laughed so hard that their
teacher had to stop the music.
Although I've never bought a new home and have no intention to do so (my
marriage and sanity probably wouldn't survive), the nationally syndicated home
columnist's book is filled with tips we can all use, not to mention nearly a
laugh a page.
Here's a sampling:
On shelter magazines: They "are to reality what politicians are to truth."
On her unsuccessful attempts to tell her husband that she bought an oil painting
while he worked: "I felt that between the attempted phone call and that
truncated conversation I'd satisfied marital disclosure requirements."
On redecorating: "Have other couples started a three-month redecorating project
and twelve months later found that the cost has tripled, their favorite fabric
has been discontinued, their marriage is in a shambles, and the contractors have
all gone to the bar?"
Structured around Jameson and her husband's experience building and decorating a
new home outside Denver, Colo., the book shares mistakes
gleaned from the purchase, renovation or building of five homes. The writing is
clever, engaging and revealing, like when she admits to
walking through the neighbors' houses when they are near completion but
officially still owned by the builder. "After all, it's human nature
to yearn to know what our neighbors have that we don't. Okay, maybe not for
Gandhi or Mother Theresa, but I said human nature."
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