#NF The Crossroads of Should and Must
JANUARY
17.
by 
Elle LunaFinish date: 20 January 2022
Genre: Non-fiction
Rating: D-
Review:
Bad news: Collage slogans: Reading is disrupted by a waterfall of illustrations/taglines on practically every page! Less is more…..
Layout: Pages are a smattering of paragraphs and inspirational quotes…and the book could easily have been 80 pages instead of 160.
Bad news: Ideas in this book feel like they have been written on a laptop between Chia Lattes at Starbucks…highly-caffeinated content. When I closed the book an empty feeling of wasted reading time engulfed me.
Bad news: How to remove ‘should’ from our lives? Is this something I need to do? Really…there are plenty of “ should” we have to keep. Work: Like your job or not…a “girl’s gotta eat and pay the bills!”
Bad news: I shudder reading the “self-awarness” therapy exercises this book offers…skipping this “should” chapter. No…I do NOT want to write my obituary (part III Must, pg 80)…jich!
Good news: One thing I did like “Acquire one new skill a month…try new activities.” I can do that. No, I will not try to do headstands. Integrating solitude into our lives must be done. Well, during a pandemic that is a very easy lift! Find solitude in the craziest places…NO, I will not wash a head of lettuce leaf by leaf for a “kitchen” moment of meditation!
Personal: Why did I buy this book 7 years ago? Read in 1,5 hrs….learned nothing.
Review:
Bad news: Collage slogans: Reading is disrupted by a waterfall of illustrations/taglines on practically every page! Less is more…..
Layout: Pages are a smattering of paragraphs and inspirational quotes…and the book could easily have been 80 pages instead of 160.
Bad news: Ideas in this book feel like they have been written on a laptop between Chia Lattes at Starbucks…highly-caffeinated content. When I closed the book an empty feeling of wasted reading time engulfed me.
Bad news: How to remove ‘should’ from our lives? Is this something I need to do? Really…there are plenty of “ should” we have to keep. Work: Like your job or not…a “girl’s gotta eat and pay the bills!”
Bad news: I shudder reading the “self-awarness” therapy exercises this book offers…skipping this “should” chapter. No…I do NOT want to write my obituary (part III Must, pg 80)…jich!
Good news: One thing I did like “Acquire one new skill a month…try new activities.” I can do that. No, I will not try to do headstands. Integrating solitude into our lives must be done. Well, during a pandemic that is a very easy lift! Find solitude in the craziest places…NO, I will not wash a head of lettuce leaf by leaf for a “kitchen” moment of meditation!
Personal: Why did I buy this book 7 years ago? Read in 1,5 hrs….learned nothing.
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NancyElin.blog 
These old books on your TBR pile!!!!! This one gave me a good chuckle imagining your disdain as you read it :-)
What was the last book YOU read feeling intense disdain?
Let me think….