This Is Home: The Art of Simple Living

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It all just felt so casual and just like respectful conversations friends/family have to better understand each other.

Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini | Goodreads Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini | Goodreads

Life in Canada is culture shock in terms of diversity and size adding to her feelings of overwhelming anxiety. Featuring eight case studies from Australia, the US and Europe, and nearly 200 color photographs, This is Home will inspire you with beautiful, authentic places you want to be – today.All in all, this was an excellent presentation of hard topics served in a digestible and compulsive storytelling format. My only caveat with Home Home is that it is a relatively slender piece, and as such seems to almost finish before it starts.

This Is Home by Natalie Walton | Hardie Grant Publishing This Is Home by Natalie Walton | Hardie Grant Publishing

Though she doesn't see it yet, Canada is a place where she can feel at home--if she can only find the courage to be honest with herself. This is Home is about simple living - how to focus on our values to create authentic homes full of meaning and joy. It really gives the reader an opportunity to study the design principles being used in many different situations.The secret to living simply is to be able to afford to live in a beautiful old building with lots of character and big windows and natural light so that you don’t need much stuff to make your home beautiful. I did not love the way in which a potential romantic partner served as a partial "cure" for Kayla's depression. All in all, this was such a beautifully well-written portrayal of mental illness from a perspective we don't always hear about. It frequently came off as overly formal to me, in a way that didn’t sound like normal teenagers to me.

Home (Hardback) - Waterstones I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Hardback) - Waterstones

Home Home is a delightful story in which the author painlessly educates while letting us into Kayla’s world view. The philosophy of living simply and directed by one's values resonated with me and will resonate with many. I could understand why young Kayla felt so unloved by her mother and out of place on an island of people who didn’t have open, nonjudgmental dialogue about mental illness. You'll know what The Feeling is; it's that moment when you read something, maybe a word or a sentence or a metaphor, whatever, but you know that it's good.This is a story of youth told from a youth’s perspective, coming to grips with strained familial relationships, depression, loneliness, self-esteem, first crushes, religion, world views and sexuality. Whilst there, Kayla must come to terms with her mental health, her new family and indeed her new home. The gravitas of an outfit choice or an argument makes even more sense when the stakes are laid out clearly for the reader.