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Loading... Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness (edition 2010)by Dominique Browning
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I could mostly empathize where Dominique was coming from, the pain she felt having lost her job, her home and her relationship. There were parts that left me misty eyed. I learned to love eating out on own even more now. It made me feel that no matter what craziness or setbacks you face, things will be ok and that things do get better. ( ) This was not my cup of tea. Browning's relationship with a man who is a disaster in all the ways that matter (to me) colored this whole memoir, and reading about it interfered with my ability to care about her memoir. It's also a bit difficult to muster up a huge amount of sympathy for someone who loses their high-powered New York job and is forced to sell their primary residence and move into their recently remodeled cottage in Long Island. Or Rhode Island, whatever, I can't remember- that's how involved I was. There were moments of lovely prose, and moments of sympathetic resonance, but for the most part I felt impatient and annoyed while reading this. I couldn't relate. After having read the book - a very quick read with some pithy, worthwhile bits - I think a more apt comparison would be to [b:Eat, Pray, Love|19501|Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia|Elizabeth Gilbert|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1269870432s/19501.jpg|3352398]. But waaay less annoying. An excerpt I read in today's NYT reminded me, a bit, of [b:Gift from the Sea|77295|Gift from the Sea|Anne Morrow Lindbergh|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900051s/77295.jpg|37467]. I should re-read that. My first thought is, "I wish every unemployed person could afford to check out of life and just live on their investments ..." But on the other hand, there was much in Ms. Browning's experiences that I could relate to: her response to the inevitable depression, her re-discovery of life that she had been avoiding in the rush of life, the value she found in her relationships. I enjoyed Ms. Browning's candor about all her foibles and admired her ability to take a hard look at herself and admit the negatives as well as the positives.
“Paths of Desire” began, memorably, with the swift and entire collapse of a concrete wall onto a favorite, hard-won patch of the author’s suburban garden. It isn’t hard to see that Browning is deploying that same dramatic pattern here, with the collapse of a job rather than the wall as an inescapable event that highlights, like it or not, the need for change and progress.
Browning, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine, offers a humorous and moving work about losing a job and winning a life. No library descriptions found. |
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