Family Life Essentials - Home Decor for Daily Living & Comfort

Although academic in a sense, The Stuff of Family Life: How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives speaks to the everyday reader through easy-to-follow text and language. The book consists of nine chapters plus an epilogue. The chapters cover topics such as "Families, Home Spaces, and Objects: Welcome Mats and Plumbing Pipes" and "Separated Families: Sofa Beds, Laptops, and Cell Phones." Each chapter is broken down into smaller sections, so I never felt like I had to sit down and read a huge chunk of pages at a time. Instead, I could read little by little in my spare moments. The book covers a lot of information about family dynamics without beating a reader down with academese. Janning truly combines education and entertainment in a nonfiction book accessible to casual readers through dedicated sociology students. I find her use of amusing anecdotes especially engaging. I found myself chuckling as I read some of the stories. Overall I am quite impressed with the book, and definitely recommend checking out a copy to anyone interested in the sociology of the modern American family.