A review by andotherworlds
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki

3.0

3 // Well hello there. I think this books succeeded in promoting the ideals of minimalism through transferring a more philosophical approach to the matter, however it wasn't really a guide on how to achieve it. Perhaps it never was marketed as a "how to" guide and I am just a dingus (very likely), but I think if you are wanting read this out of a desire to understand the realistic process of becoming minimalist, this will not be helpful to you. This is something one should read if they are just thinking about minimalism and whether they should even try it out or not. It is more so a book of the theoretics rather than practicality.

Keeping all that in mind, I would overall say that this book is somewhat worth reading. It's short, and although sometimes repetitive (especially with its constant references to Steve Jobs lol), it is an interesting introduction to minimalism.