I love a beautiful book.  Even better when the writer can actually write.  In addition to both of those things is this:  I want to be friends with this lady.  She is hilarious.

I was picking up my latest Nora Roberts book last week and spotted this sitting on the shelf while I waited.  So, I brought this home too thinking that it would be like most of the other books I have read about minimalism.  But, I was wrong.

My soul longs to be a minimalist but my hoarding of things such as books, lovely furniture, milk glass and other things cause me to never be able to attain the beauty of other peoples homes that only have one chair and an art print hung sideways on the wall.  Am I being too harsh?  I just can’t do it.

I want to be comfortable in my own home and I want others to feel the same way, but at the same time all of the visual clutter that I surround myself with causes me anxiety in a way that I can’t truly explain.

She has a perspective that I truly enjoyed and will try to incorporate as I continue to pare down all.of.the.things in my house.  Decluttering is an ongoing, and never ending task at my house.  The more stuff that I remove from my house, the more I am loving my house.  Does that make sense to anyone but me?

My house is nowhere near what I want it to be, but this writer has given me a new way to think about things as I continue to truly find what I want to surround myself with and what I don’t.

You should definitely pick up a copy of this, just to look at the photographs.  They make me happy.  But, she is also a very funny and witty writer too.  Definitely a must read in my opinion.

What have you been reading lately?  I am always looking for another good book.