Aug 152015
Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens
For Cheryl Mendelson laundering is the best part of housekeeping. It’s full of physical pleasures – the look of favorite clothes restored to freshness and beauty, the tactile satisfaction of crisp linens in beautifully folded stacks. Good laundering preserves things you love and protects your pocket book. It doesn’t take much time or effort. What it takes is knowledge, and Laundry is the comprehensive, entertaining, and inspiring new book on the art of laundering. Culled from the bestselling Hom
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Better off with “Home Comforts”,
“Home Comforts” has been so helpful and authoritative that I preordered “Laundry” as soon as it was announced. I was very disappointed to find that it consisted almost entirely of material taken from her previous book. If Cheryl Mendelson feels that she needs to revise “Home Comforts”, she should go over the entire book and bring out a second edition.
If you already have “Home Comforts”, you don’t need to buy “Laundry”; and if you don’t have “Home Comforts”, you need to buy it. But I see little reason to buy “Laundry”. I am returning my copy.
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Chapters 14-28 of Home Comforts now reissued in hardcover,
Laundry is simply recycled and slightly refined material from Mendelson’s Home Comforts. If you already own Home Comforts, I would skip Laundry (or if you must have it, wait until the paperback comes out, likely some time next year). If, however, you don’t care about food storage, bathroom cleaning, domestic employment laws, fireplaces, resilient flooring materials, “other components of household dust,” and you just want a well written, thorough, up-to-date guide to clothes and linens, then Laundry is a fine purchase, worth the current price.
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Expansion and Improvement,
Laundry is an expansion of a chapter of Home Comforts, true, but that expansion could be very worthwhile to someone interested in really organizing their home-laundering process (which sounds pompous, but that’s what it is when you toss all that stuff in the washer). While it’s true this isn’t a necessary text it’s certainly a noble contribution, and Mendelson’s prose is still a delight.
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