by Claire Dederer
I really enjoyed listening to Claire's story. She made me want to start yoga. Claire's story is a very familiar one. A working mom trying to make her life work. She made me think about things in a whole new light.
Initially, I found this book very interesting. I enjoy reading about yoga and people who practice it. That is what I expected this to be about; and it was, at first. Dederer starts this book by explaining why she’s considering yoga (difficult pregnancy/first couple of months as a mother), then begin...
“We didn’t want to look good. We wanted to be good.”Claire is a new mom, a wife, and a writer and she is so close to having a nervous breakdown that you can see her shaking hand on every page of this typewritten manuscript. She takes up yoga in the midst of her crazy life and somehow yoga saves her...
WHY: I liked Dederer when she wrote movie reviews for the Seattle Weekly and her book takes place largely in my neighborhood. It seems like everybody is reading it, and that usually scares me off of a book, but I still think I'll give it a try.
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