Books
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In The Company of Women Book Review
In The Company of Women, Grace Bonney of Design Sponge’s latest book, brings together interviews with over 100 women who are makers, artists, and entrepreneurs – and good company it is! I’m always fascinated by women who work as creatives and small business owners. How do they make it work? What did they do differently than I did? How did they get to where they are now? Years ago I followed what I thought were my dreams and went to art school. For someone like me who thrives on stability, the regularity and security of an office environment is much more practical if not as imaginative. I’m so inspired by…
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#GIRLBOSS Book Review + Nasty Galaxy
Ok, so I finally caved and read this book. #GIRLBOSS has topped the list of basically every woman’s business book resource list lately. What is #GIRLBOSS about? It’s Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso’s memoir about her experience going from a broke dumpster-diving teen to building a successfully retail business with a cult community following – all without acquiring any real debt. The content doesn’t focus so much on merchandising, startup culture, or retail strategy, although some business gems on ethics and strategy can be found inside. What makes #GIRLBOSS resonate with so many women is Sophia Amoruso’s accessibility and cool-girl aesthetic. In her writing, she comes across as the girlfriend…
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Dispatches From Pluto Book Review + Lemuria Bookstore
Mississippi. The softly sibilant state most often spoken in the shortest span of time. When was the last time you said it without counting in the same breath? My mother’s family is from Mississippi, and for as long as I can remember in our youth we would make a yearly visit to my grandmother and cousins. First in Yazoo City, then in Jackson when my grandmother relocated after my grandfather passed away. Southern magical realism is a popular writing style – and one of my favorites. The truth is always stranger than fiction, and a tall tale doesn’t cast as long of a shadow or light as a child’s imagination playing…
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Yoga Book Reviews
Since finishing yoga teacher training at Joy Yoga a few months ago, I’ve been soaking in all of the information we learned and letting it settle. We read so many good yoga books leading up to and going through training. Here are a few yoga book reviews from my yoga journey. The theme of these books is different types of yoga practices that are popular in the West, but they’re by no means comprehensive! Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar Iyengar’s Light on Yoga is in pretty much every yogi’s library. It’s a great book! Iyengar was one of the most influential yogis in the migration of yoga to the…
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Barbarian Days Book Review + July Reading List
As promised – the Barbarian Days book review. I’ve finally finished Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. I’d had my eye on the book for a while, and when it won a Pulitzer Prize for autobiography this spring, it suddenly made it’s way into my hands. Surfing. Chris calls it “the fever”. As in “he has the fever” – the only way to describe someone known to disappear at a surf buoy’s notice. In case you didn’t notice from the blog photos, Chris has the fever. Finnegan has lived with the fever and will take you, the willing reader, on that journey with him. William Finnegan’s prose makes surf culture…
