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In twenty essays, shimmering with truth and grace, Goodrich explores the home birth of his son, nights spent walking a screaming infant, years devoted to.
Charles Goodrich worked for twenty-five years as a professional gardener, and has also worked as a correctional work crew supervisor, a short-order cook.
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The Practice of Home: Biography of a House

April 9, 2012

My father-in-law bought this book for my husband ten years ago, when we purchased our first home. My husband never showed any interest in the book and neither did I, so I threw it in a bag of books to sell at Powell's, the colossal independent bookstore here in Portland. For whatever reason, Powell's was never interested, no matter how many times I tried to sell/trade it. So, my grocery bag of cast-off books sat in the back of our vehicle and fell over once or twice, knocking this book under a seat. On last week's camping trip in the high desert of Central Oregon, I discovered this book while unpacking our gear. And, for whatever reason, it seemed appealing in a way that it never had before. And so, even though I had packed five or six books for the trip, I read this one in a day. It was quite good. The writing is solid (except for a few rather blatant grammatical errors that the editor missed) and the subject matter interesting. I would recommend it to those who enjoy memoir and Oregon memoirs in particular.

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Gregory House

Protagonist of the American television series House

For other uses, see Gregory House (disambiguation).

"Doctor House" redirects here. Not to be confused with House doctor (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Gregory House is a fictional character and the titularprotagonist of the American medical drama series House. Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians and is the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey.^[1] House's character has been described as a misanthrope, cynic, narcissist, and curmudgeon.

In the series, the character's unorthodox diagnostic approaches, radical therapeutic motives, and stalwart rationality have resulted in much conflict between him and his colleagues.^[2] House is also often portrayed as lacking sympathy for his patients, a practice that allows him time to solve pathological enigmas. The character is partly based on Sherlock Holmes.^[3]^[4]A portion of the show's

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The Practice of Home: Biography of a House - Hardcover

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Charles Goodrich is a poet, a gardener, a father, a husband, a neighbor, a tinkerer, a builder of houses. In twenty essays, shimmering with truth and grace, Goodrich explores the home birth of his son, nights spent walking a screaming infant, years devoted to building and remodeling his house, his own battle with alcoholism, and the joys of small spaces, always pursuing his ultimate subject: how to live one's life. The Practice of Home is a brilliantly written, warmly funny and ironic testimony to the home-made and the close-at-hand.He writes, "I wanted to discover whether building a house could be a way of building a self." What he discovers is "the practice of home," which he recommends "as a kind of adventure, as travel of the most demanding and rewarding sort, for the practice of homes leads us deeper and deeper into our own communities, into our native intelligence, and into our souls." "I built a house," he writes. "I botched a lot of things, but it all came out all righ