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stangre's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
brendalovesbooks's review
3.0
I liked the author. Her story was mostly interesting, but there were parts of the book where I just felt like I didn't care, and can we move on already?
One quote from the book I liked:
"Uttanasana, also known as good old forward bend. Exhale. You're only here for a moment, so enjoy it. Well, I suppose that's true of every pose in the vinyasa sequence. I suppose some yoga type would say that it's also true of every moment in life. You could think about that, except it's time to move on." (Pg. 193)
One quote from the book I liked:
"Uttanasana, also known as good old forward bend. Exhale. You're only here for a moment, so enjoy it. Well, I suppose that's true of every pose in the vinyasa sequence. I suppose some yoga type would say that it's also true of every moment in life. You could think about that, except it's time to move on." (Pg. 193)
timna_wyckoff's review
2.0
Eh - amusing, familiar, too long, a bit forced...I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but I don't think it will stay with me.
taniareadsstuff's review
4.0
I read this right after “Eat Pray Love” and was exclusively looking for books that had that same vibe. This one fit the bill but I did enjoy it a little more.
boreasword's review
3.0
I liked this book less as it went along. It got more muddled and less concise, perhaps in an attempt to make memoir like yoga. It did inspire me to return to my own yoga practice, so those elements of the book were well done.
laila4343's review
3.0
I wanted to like this book more than I did. Some of the yoga sections did not hold my interest as much as the sections on her navigating motherhood and her relationship with her husband.
readingjag's review
1.0
I couldn't finish this one. Although the writing was lovely and I did identify with a lot of what the author discusses at the beginning (the grandparents' raw need to be near the baby, yoga as a way to ease perfectionism) I ultimately had the same problem with this memoir as I did with Eat, Pray, Love: it's really hard to listen to someone so privileged complain so much.
As a mom who has just gone back to full-time work and is pumping milk all day long while missing my child, I just couldn't get into reading about someone who works as a writer part-time from home, gets to be with her child most of the day, and takes tons of yoga classes. She whines pretty much non-stop about it. I'm too envious to sympathize with her complaints about her lifestyle--a lifestyle I would pretty much give a kidney to have.
I will go back to plot-driven fiction for a while and maybe revisit this once I get a little more used to being a working mom.
As a mom who has just gone back to full-time work and is pumping milk all day long while missing my child, I just couldn't get into reading about someone who works as a writer part-time from home, gets to be with her child most of the day, and takes tons of yoga classes. She whines pretty much non-stop about it. I'm too envious to sympathize with her complaints about her lifestyle--a lifestyle I would pretty much give a kidney to have.
I will go back to plot-driven fiction for a while and maybe revisit this once I get a little more used to being a working mom.
yayjill's review
2.0
I think that in the pursuit of honesty, the author painted a bleak picture of herself and her life. Choosing to focus on the negative and the dramatic should have made for an interesting book, but instead it created a disconnect between myself and the author -- is anyone really that miserable?
Even at my worst I have good things in my life but if the author could say the same, she didn't mention it. She had her children, but she put so much pressure on herself to be the perfect mother that they sounded like a beloved burden rather than a source of joy. She had yoga but she also has a huge amount of anxiety about being good at it. Even her husband seemed like a source of shame and conflict instead of love and support.
I enjoyed her voice and found her funny, but I found Poser poorly balanced.
Even at my worst I have good things in my life but if the author could say the same, she didn't mention it. She had her children, but she put so much pressure on herself to be the perfect mother that they sounded like a beloved burden rather than a source of joy. She had yoga but she also has a huge amount of anxiety about being good at it. Even her husband seemed like a source of shame and conflict instead of love and support.
I enjoyed her voice and found her funny, but I found Poser poorly balanced.