Skip to main content

Spark Joy in your life - a book review

"The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: a magical story" by Marie Kondo and illustrated by Yuko Uramoto

Visually this book brings a sense of calm and a simplistic joy to look at. It's simple without much distraction and it leads you into showing how you'll experience a non-distracted, simpler life when you put the methods KonMari goes over in her tale.

The back cover entertains you with the mess the main character Chiaki is currently living with before she hires KonMari to help her tidy up.

Flipping through pages you find a refreshing art style that doesn't drown your visuals in ink.

I've heard of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" before and immediately realized it was a manga-tized version when I realized it was going over the same method I heard once before.

"It's not the things I'm discarding, but the things I'm keeping that are in this room. I had been so focused on finding junk that I had completely overlooked what really mattered: the things I was keeping" on page 163 was a flashback to KonMari's childhood and when she realized her system. Without spoiling her entire methodology this is a good way to describe what it's all about.

I grew up with hoarder tendencies where if it wasn't absolutely trash I can find time later on to fix it, read it, use it, etc so long as I kept it around. Growing up I realized that there were a lot of clothes that I wasn't wearing so it made sense to donate them. Growing up and looking towards the future I could tell that the American standard of hoarding was hurting our lifestyles and a method of tidying up like KonMari describes makes so much sense.

Keep what you find joy in and don't hold on to things that are keeping you in the past.

I'll be putting these lessons to use in my home and at my office space and I hope to find a clearer, uncluttered outcome on the other end.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Set a Table : a book review

How to Set a Table is a quaint little book that was published by POTTER STYLE, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, but oddly enough doesn't credit any author on any of the standard pages. Much digging into the fine print on the very last informative page tells us that Chloe Lieske wrote it - but trying to find this book using her name doesn't show up readily in search results, as though she was discredited and only there to write up a joint collective voice. The book itself is textured in such a way from the burlap style of the cover, that it turns itself into a nice piece to display around your house. How to Set a table is extremely visual and easy to read over - but putting everything mentioned into practice is significantly harder if you're not a specific kind of person. If you don't have nice dinnerware of either porcelain, earthenware or stoneware of varied sizes and shapes along with diff...
Post a Comment
Read more

Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker - a review

I picked up Leading Lady: Sherry  Lansing  and the Making of a Hollywood  Groundbreaker  by  Stephen Galloway  without  any knowledge of Sheryl Lansing or what she had worked on.  But here was a confident woman on the front of a  book with raving reviews on  Sheryl at the back (rather than the  common reviews on the book itself).    My  experience with reading this  book was one of  inspiration, when her story began to pick  up. I started and put the book  down at least three times, telling myself to just get through it, because  even a poor story  deserves   the second chance opportunity, and for me it really did need that struggle through reading a few of the chapters.  It really doesn't pick up until chapter 4/5 and with such long chapters it's hard to say someone will sit with the story long enough to get caught in it.    When you understand that Sherry ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Friends, in number- response

Friends can be defined as many things. When we think of the word "friend" we think first of a favored companion we enjoy to spend time with. Still, a friend could just be an acquaintance. I used to get confused between the two, but if you are indecisive of what to call them, why not just assume they are both? It may not be important to have many friends, being the kind you'll arrange meetings, play around and call whenever something comes up, but it is important to have a lot of acquaintances, or as some might think, future relations. To put a number on friends is as though you're putting a number on a person. I would rather not associate faces with numbers or positions. A friend is a friend and an acquaintance an acquaintance. Maybe the number of these "friends" don't mean anything because I would not take time to count up how many people have affected me in some way, shape or form. My own definition of friend is loose, and from a young age ...
1 comment
Read more