Julie Pointer Adams

I think I was hoping for the lifestyle version of Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal. It wasn't that.

The author's advice just irks me with the classist take on "simple" living. EG: Don't buy cheap furniture, just live without it until you can buy a nice piece of furniture. Okay, that's nice. I guess no one is supposed to have a chair, shelf, table, bed, etc, until they can afford high-quality versions. I wanted a celebration of simplicity and finding the joy in everyday life. Instead, it just felt like a rich person pretending to be poor, but only with artisinal cheese and hand-picked, organic fruit served on a lacewood platter with Blue Mountain coffee.

It's also mostly pictures with short personal essays. I didn't find it inspiring.

I don't think I was the target of this book, and wouldn't recommend it.… (meer)