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A review by vee46
Craft a Life You Love: Infusing Creativity, Fun & Intention Into Your Everyday by Amy Tangerine
5.0
The premise of the book is enriching your life through the power of hobbies, it shows us how hobbies are an integral part of our lives and how they contribute to our happiness. Amy uses her own personal experiences to carve out instances where her hobbies have helped shape her into who she is today. The book is very inspiring to me as a person who’s just getting started on her own slew of hobbies and finds them fun while also navigating the challenges that come as a beginner. This book was a great reminder that you should keep going even when it gets hard and to believe in your inner strength and creativity.
The book also wants to establish how hobbies can be a form of self care and how taking time out for them helps you play a more present role in your life - personally and professionally. I never thought of it this way and it felt good to put into words what I was failing to articulate to myself before. I commend Amy for writing a book recounting her wins and losses and then letting the readers take a peek into her mind at times of adversity. When she talked about her failures in life and how they were nerve wracking and how this ended with her being nudged to the right path. Reading such intimate moments of a persons’ life can be equally motivating and sympathizing.
I loved how the book had journal prompts that made you take a pause and reflect not just on what you learned but also how that resonates with you and write it out. It was unlike any book I had picked up before but a great process nevertheless.The way she talked about hobbies being a reflection of who we are and how it can help us find our way back to ourselves when we feel lost really called out to me as I’ve personally experienced this.
The way she gives us an insight to her life with quotes that call out to you and then ends the chapter with a journal prompt would forever be my favorite way of explaining things.My favorite examples would be the ones where her life was redirected to the right place after a major setback, it was like a blessing in disguise. The ones at the top of my head would be when she moved to LA leaving everything behind and was given a difficult choice but she didn't let it deter her only to have another better opportunity waiting for her. Another would be how her failure to deliver her order made her realize that she was taking on too much and spreading herself too thinly for it to work. The realization of her being ‘I can do it all’ was really relatable to me
The book also wants to establish how hobbies can be a form of self care and how taking time out for them helps you play a more present role in your life - personally and professionally. I never thought of it this way and it felt good to put into words what I was failing to articulate to myself before. I commend Amy for writing a book recounting her wins and losses and then letting the readers take a peek into her mind at times of adversity. When she talked about her failures in life and how they were nerve wracking and how this ended with her being nudged to the right path. Reading such intimate moments of a persons’ life can be equally motivating and sympathizing.
I loved how the book had journal prompts that made you take a pause and reflect not just on what you learned but also how that resonates with you and write it out. It was unlike any book I had picked up before but a great process nevertheless.The way she talked about hobbies being a reflection of who we are and how it can help us find our way back to ourselves when we feel lost really called out to me as I’ve personally experienced this.
The way she gives us an insight to her life with quotes that call out to you and then ends the chapter with a journal prompt would forever be my favorite way of explaining things.My favorite examples would be the ones where her life was redirected to the right place after a major setback, it was like a blessing in disguise. The ones at the top of my head would be when she moved to LA leaving everything behind and was given a difficult choice but she didn't let it deter her only to have another better opportunity waiting for her. Another would be how her failure to deliver her order made her realize that she was taking on too much and spreading herself too thinly for it to work. The realization of her being ‘I can do it all’ was really relatable to me