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A review by doughtah
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I don’t read many nonfiction books, but I picked this one up hoping to gather some advice about how to follow through with a shopping ban. Instead, I read a very moving, relatable story about a woman encountering difficulties and learning how to gather herself together and improve upon herself.
Cait Flanders takes you from the beginning of her shopping ban, through reflections on her previous challenges (sobriety, eating healthier, exercising) and the difficulties that she’s lived through, all the way to the ending of her yearlong shopping ban. Her reflections on her challenges and her connections with coworkers, friends, and family fill up the majority of the book and, for me, quite a few brought me to tears. You can tell Flanders writes a blog, as the book is an engaging read. If you are looking for a reflective book that inspires you to reflect on your consumption of things, then I would encourage you to read this book. I borrowed my copy from my local library and I think a personal challenge for myself, after reading this, will be to only read books that are already on my shelves or borrowed from the library.
Cait Flanders takes you from the beginning of her shopping ban, through reflections on her previous challenges (sobriety, eating healthier, exercising) and the difficulties that she’s lived through, all the way to the ending of her yearlong shopping ban. Her reflections on her challenges and her connections with coworkers, friends, and family fill up the majority of the book and, for me, quite a few brought me to tears. You can tell Flanders writes a blog, as the book is an engaging read. If you are looking for a reflective book that inspires you to reflect on your consumption of things, then I would encourage you to read this book. I borrowed my copy from my local library and I think a personal challenge for myself, after reading this, will be to only read books that are already on my shelves or borrowed from the library.
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Grief