A review by mmccombs
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

reflective medium-paced

3.0

Lots of great nuggets in this book, but I think the blend of memoir and non fiction didn’t really work for me. Loved the concept, and I really appreciated a message of slowing down and welcoming sadness/unhappiness as a signal to take care of yourself and make a change. However, at the end of this book I was asking myself: what does wintering look like when you can’t change or leave your job? When you can’t surround yourself with softness and food and sleep? And what would this book look like if we expanded outside a Euro-centric view on winter (i.e. cold, snow, etc) and considered places and people who don’t experience winter in the same way?  Probably beyond the scope of this book, and I might have come in with the wrong expectations, but I would have liked to explore more diverse approaches to and experiences with wintering.
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