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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders
5 reviews
amallard's review against another edition
sad
medium-paced
2.75
Picked this up and was so ready to get motivated. Convince me! Help me! Heal me! Let's go!
By the end, my concern for myself had been replaced by worry for the author. This was a sad book. Tonally it hung around the levels of functional hopelessness to abject depression.
That's not an insult to Flanders. I have also visited the pits of abject depression. But, like, the narrative voice wasn't happy at any point in this? There was a great hollowness. I expected a cutesy little book on minimalism, and was somewhat unprepared for two hundred pages about a successive list of soul-destroying addictions.
By the end, my concern for myself had been replaced by worry for the author. This was a sad book. Tonally it hung around the levels of functional hopelessness to abject depression.
That's not an insult to Flanders. I have also visited the pits of abject depression. But, like, the narrative voice wasn't happy at any point in this? There was a great hollowness. I expected a cutesy little book on minimalism, and was somewhat unprepared for two hundred pages about a successive list of soul-destroying addictions.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness
averageawkwardasian's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Inspiriring.
The part about not able to let go who you wish to be rings very deeply with me. I also love the author summarize and outlined the steps you need when you want to follow the challenge.
Worth a re-read for me.
The part about not able to let go who you wish to be rings very deeply with me. I also love the author summarize and outlined the steps you need when you want to follow the challenge.
Worth a re-read for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Mental illness
nutfreenerd's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Addiction, and Alcoholism
e_mcdowell's review against another edition
It was ok at the beginning but about halfway through it got super judgy and preachy. She says often enough that everyone is different but she sure makes it seem like hers is the right way. I’m all for saving money and reducing consumption but I’m not about to learn how to sew just so I can fix my old navy pajama pants.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction
Also shaming for binge watching tv.sarahmae531's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I really enjoyed this book, and it inspired me to do something similar in the future.
I did enjoy that at the end, she gave specific dollar amounts of what she saved, spent, and lived on over the year of her ban, because it did help me to realize that with my current income and type of job, it may not be the best time to take this challenge on 😅
I did enjoy that at the end, she gave specific dollar amounts of what she saved, spent, and lived on over the year of her ban, because it did help me to realize that with my current income and type of job, it may not be the best time to take this challenge on 😅
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction
Moderate: Mental illness and Eating disorder
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