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A review by brenticus
Enough: Learning to simplify life, let go and walk the path that's truly ours by Jessica Rose Williams
Did not finish book. Stopped at 66%.
I hit the point where it became clear this book held little value for me and the author had very different ideas of what simple living meant. For her, it was about gaining and remaining in control of more aspects of her life, and removing the things that she couldn't or didn't want to control; for me, it's about accepting, as well as I can, that there are things in life that are inherently impossible to control and that I should accept that I won't ever have things quite handled.
There were times when I was reading where it felt immature or uninformed, like believing that she was some oppressed minority for wanting to be child- and alcohol-free. But mostly it seemed like she was a few steps away from figuring things out well enough to be able to write a good book on it.
I also found it VERY strange that she married a man with two children and still had a lengthy section on being child-free. Was she that uninvolved with their lives? Did she marry someone way past the half-plus-seven rule who already had adult children? I worry there are a couple of kids out there with a horrible step-mom.
There were times when I was reading where it felt immature or uninformed, like believing that she was some oppressed minority for wanting to be child- and alcohol-free. But mostly it seemed like she was a few steps away from figuring things out well enough to be able to write a good book on it.
I also found it VERY strange that she married a man with two children and still had a lengthy section on being child-free. Was she that uninvolved with their lives? Did she marry someone way past the half-plus-seven rule who already had adult children? I worry there are a couple of kids out there with a horrible step-mom.