I got these in a bundled set from my library's eZone that included all the relevant epilogues. I don't have much to say about these that thousands of avid Bridgerton reader's haven't already said. These are classic historical romances that have stood the test of time. While the Netflix series is not a 100% pure adaptation, fans of the books will love the show and vice versa.
This was an amazing book that tackles all the ways we drive our self to burnout because being "lazy" is considered a personal flaw. Price provides a very interesting look into what laziness actually means in terms of signals that one needs a break, impacts of work-life balance and why laziness is not the social anathema that we have been trained to believe it is.
This was recommended as a companion piece to Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives by Sarah Marshall of the You're Wrong About Podcast. I also enjoyed it as a great follow-up to The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger that I reviewed earlier this month. This book follows the history of home industrialization while simultaneously exploring how those "improvements" changed the work done by women, specifically women who served in some capacity as housewives. The reality that home technology merely shifted the work from the family to the individual women, meaning each improvement only freed up everyone else, rings true now as much as it did in 1983 when the book was published.
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