Chapter Two Hundred Thirty-Five: Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

As with The Year of Less, I ended up listening to Slow by Brooke McAlary, primarily because it was available as an e-audiobook through the library, and secondarily because I was interested in the topic.  Also, the author reads her own book and is Australian, so I enjoyed listening to her accent.  It was refreshing to hear someone talk about the ways she has struggled in her efforts to live more slowly, and it was especially refreshing to hear someone remark that of course it all sounds simple in her book because the process of writing requires streamlining what happened, or she'd be writing the book forever and we'd never get to read it.  I'm also just a little bit nosy, so I always enjoy books where people explain a bit about how they live and what their life is like, and Slow was no exception to that rule.  In fact, I'd say Slow is at least as much about the author's life as it is a how-to, perhaps more, because one of the points she emphasizes is that what works for one person or family won't necessarily work for another.  For her, slow living is more about figuring out what works best for you and your family and disregarding the numerous images of "perfect" lives that are presented to us so frequently in the media and on social media.  Anyway, if you're looking for tips on living more mindfully or if you, like me, are just nosy enough to really enjoy books where someone describes their daily life, you may well enjoy Slow.