A review by james7634
Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life by Cait Flanders

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

The older I get the more I’m interested in finding a way to live an intentional and more fulfilling life. So I was excited to get the book but was overall not very impressed. This is the second or third book in this memoirist career where she talks about her experience decluttering and giving up a stable home life for a more nomadic life which she documents. There is a lot of white person privilege, basic white bitch. At one point she talks about how much she loves eat pray love how much she loves Cheryl strayed. And this book is written in the same mindset. She talks about environmentalism but then also brags about traveling internationally and how she is dedicated one person of her income to fight climate change because that feels right. So it’s not a bad book I think if you were younger it would be more inspiring than the perspective I have as an older person. She does equate taking chances in life with a hike. So she’ll say that when you make a new decision and you start to act on that new decision or that new lifestyle it’ll be just like when you’re starting a hike and you see something really pretty. Or as you continue to make these life changes that’s a little bit like going up a slope. I don’t think it was a bad book and I don’t think it was a great book. I felt that she meandered a bit and I felt just kind of blah about the whole experience.