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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis
19 reviews
avisreadsandreads's review
5.0
Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Ableism, and Chronic illness
Minor: Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexism, Addiction, and Body shaming
tangleroot_eli's review
Graphic: Ableism and Mental illness
Moderate: Pregnancy and Chronic illness
Minor: Excrement and Child abuse
Moderate: Saneismleighwitz's review against another edition
3.0
Some things I loved: the neurodivergent accessibility with bite-sized chapters, bringing in a Black writer to speak on protective hairstyles, and explaining metaphors as an access tool.
Some things I didn’t love: the bit of the book felt disjointed. I didn’t think the part about exercise and food really fit into the book which was about home care tasks. It’s not that I disliked what was being said (in fact k wholeheartedly agree with her points) but for me it serves as a friendly reminder because these are things I know and have thought about a lot. I worry that someone who really needs to hear these messages about food and exercise as morally neutral may need something more in depth.
Minor: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug use, Body shaming, and Ableism
maddamreads's review
5.0
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Chronic illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Addiction, and Eating disorder
alysereadsbooks's review
4.0
Moderate: Mental illness and Chronic illness
Minor: Addiction
katiemack's review
5.0
The book is short--150-ish pages--and concise, as Davis knows that some of her readers don't have the time or capacity to take in all of what they read. It's packed full of useful methods of perspective-shifting that aren't just "clean as you go" or "make a schedule" and emphasizes doing what works best for you. For me, the most valuable pieces of advice are about reframing chores as "care tasks" and doing them not because it's the morally correct thing to do but because I deserve to live in a clean house, to be kind to myself in this way. Her giving permission to not have everything be spotless all the time is also exactly what I needed to read right now.
If you're struggling in life right now, pick this up. If you don't want to read 150 pages, take her advice about which chapters to skip.
Graphic: Ableism and Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Grief
Minor: Emotional abuse and Body shaming
sweetchocolatez's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism
Minor: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Bullying, Cancer, and Pandemic/Epidemic
melodyseestrees's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Ableism
Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Grief
Minor: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Child abuse
kayschwe's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Ableism, and Body shaming
linneak's review
4.0
Minor: Drug use, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Addiction