They can be fictional or non-fictional. I'm going through some changes and would like books that take me out of a consumeristic mindset, which I've gotten very heavily into the last 5 years — it just seems to be the way of the world; my part of the world anyway. Plus, I like pretty things. I'm a huge makeup and fashion girly, always have been, and finally had the money to invest in that. However idk, I miss not worrying about consuming too. I think I'm moving country and will have to make changes — no more Anthropologie fashion, but thrifting always kinda changes. Kudos if the book makes you see the beauty in simplicity, or just the beauty in life. Hell, maybe a book about the beauty of thrifting. I just want to see other angles. Maybe even other cultural angles.
by YanCoffee
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You could try *Seven Steeples* by Sara Baume, it definitely has that vibe.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
“The Home Place: A Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature” by J. Drew Lanham.
This is a memoir written by a black American ornithologist born in the 60s who grew up on a rural farm. It is certainly about his ancestry and the black experience in the US, but it is also deeply about a love of nature. Lanham describes everything in terms of plants, animals, the sky and the Earth and the water. He talks about the importance of conservation and shares his observations of the wild, untamed world.
It is a slow, quiet, peaceful read that makes you not just imagine, but *feel* the beautiful sunsets and sweet smelling grass and the sound of wood being split for the fireplace that keeps his grandmother’s cabin warm. It puts the reader into what I would describe as the correct mindset and emotional state to value the simple things and see beauty in the world rather than owned things.
Convenience Store Woman!