Such a fun book filled with quotes, exercises, and ideas to help you find your goblin mode.in a fast-paced world filled with the need to "hustle", Goblin Mode Guide to Life gives the reader the tools and permission to lean into their inner goblin. Definitely enjoyed this little book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This comes out in November just in time for those holiday gifts or stocking stuffers!

I am so afraid of self-help books because they tend to be so shame-filled and dismissive of mental health but I got excited by the term “goblin” and I am so glad I requested it. This book was healing and helpful for me as a perpetually “teacher-tired” woman. This books is so interactive and silly while being helpful and impactful. The aesthetics are so engaging and the illustrations are so cute and whimsical. I love how beautiful and peaceful this book is as it encourages you to embrace rest and do what is best for yourself. I have so many people I have to recommend this to.

This was the cutest little self care journal I have seen in a while and I honestly cannot wait to buy a physical copy. I find myself growing closer to Goblin Mode and I think this would be a fun little activity this winter.

This was the cutest little workbook. I loved the idea behind it and all the pictures and quotes were so fun. I think it did a great job on really diving into the concept of goblin mode and that it’s not just giving up entirely. Like Rather than living in filth, it’s about living in comfort and not over working yourself to have some perfect home. I wish it had a little more reading after the activities to further explain the point of each section.

This was cute, fun, and insightful. I will definitely be getting a paper copy for myself and some friends for gifts soon. I really loved the interactiveness of it, and it will be a good self care excercise to embrace the imperfection of life.

Fun little journal like book. The art is well done and the prompts and games are interesting.#GoblinModeGuidetoLife #NetGalley

I love this book! This is a creative take on self-care that makes it fun and whimsical. If you are a code withy type of mom like myself this is the book of you. While the focus is really helping you give yourself graze it is combined with a fantasy aspect that makes you feel like a fairytale creature (even if it is in the form of a goblin).

This book is creative and fun. You will not be bored reading through it and completing the prompts. Yes this is a work book with what is my opinion the cutest art work! I have never felt so at home doing a self-help workbook, which should always be the goal honestly.

Oh how I loved this book! This is the perfect self help book, it encourages you to embrace what you are rather than strive for perfection. It is such a fun read and made me smile so often. This will have a pride of place on my bookshelf.

As a lifelong perfectionist with pretty rough anxiety, I have cultivated a passion for guided journals and self-care tools to refer to for balance in times of turbulence. Goblin mode is a breathe of fresh air. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but provides calming vibes, guiding prompts, and a cute, lighthearted look at living life a bit less wound up in our troubles. It is east to forget to get off the hamster wheel and just relax and reflect. Goblin mode will help you to lighten that load.

This is really cute and I am definitely a goblin girly. The only “concern” I have with this one is that the people who likely need it the most are unlikely to pick it up. If someone is subscribed to hustle culture I just don’t see them being like yes this is the book I need. Meanwhile those of us who’ve already been knowingly or unknowingly embracing may not need a lot of these writing prompts.

Cute and cozy!! It's like a guided journal with prompts, quizzes, tips, and more. The illustrations are adorable and add to the aesthetic appeal. Perfect way to wind down in the evening as the august season is upon us!

Would make a lovely gift!

Goblin Mode Guide To Life is a self help book that guides towards self acceptance and living with no pressure. I found the book to be useful for when someone feels overwhelmed by the clutter of the physical and mental self (which recently has been me). My main concern for this book is that it kind of makes you feel bad if you enjoy the pressure of keeping your home clean and etc. However, it does teach giving grace to yourself and doing what you can in the moment.

I thought that since I have never personally ascribed to the perfectionist hustle culture lifestyle (with chronic illness and disabilities, I just can't do it) that I would enjoy this book. But I couldn't stop rolling my eyes as I flipped through it.

It's more of a guided journal, asking you to embrace imperfection and let go of perfectionism in various aspects of life. I have never been able to get on with guided journals, so I didn't find it particularly inspiring. And it seemed more gimmicky than anything. There are pages in the beginning of synonyms and antonyms for goblin core, and pages to check off which of the listed items is goblin core and... I don't know it feels like it's taken my lifestyle and made it weirdly commercial?

Suffice to say I didn't get anything out of it and found it more annoying than anything. I suppose if you had previously ascribed to the perfectionist hustle culture way of life and wanted to change but didn't know how then maybe it would help?

*Thanks to NetGalley, Quarto, and Chartwell Books for providing an early copy for review.

Well this was certainly enlightening!

Goblin mode guide to life is a cute self help book that helps the reader find the balance between cozying up and being functional. Through some diys, questions and tips this book invites the reader to take a break from hustle culture,social media and societal expectations and forge a way to self care. Honestly such an adorable book and perfect if you are new to non fiction and/or usually a cozy fantasy reader or are looking for a sweet read.

I really liked this book and its messaging, I think it's important that we undo some of the 'perfect' life messaging and imagery that we have been fed for years, whether in the mass media marketing or from influencer culture in social media.
I think its helpful to deconstruct that in a simple way that will help some people to question this and find something that they feel they align with.

The illustrations are cute and fit the style of the book well, the discussions are thoughtful and I did come away with a lot of internal thoughts about this area of exploration.

In some ways, I think its ludicrous that we have to label this 'movement' when its essentially just human life. I'm not blaming the author or anyone about this, its more a response to the overall discussion the book engages in.
We are more and more rejecting this imposed societal norm of being productive, perfect and conforming to purchasing items to make us feel better and striving to be a perfect version of ourselves. Underneath this cutesy format, we are really looking at rejecting capitalism and mass media marketing and the way that effects us as humans.

I enjoyed the feeling of being encouraged to not feel bad if things that are popular don't appeal to me, like Marie Kondo and living a minimalistic lifestyle. I think it's was also important to define what's healthy and what might not be, which the book does. I think it was sort of apparent to me that this book might also appeal to neurodivergent people who may find it difficult to live a perfect, stylised life, although this isn't explicitly mentioned.

Does labelling it in this way lesser its meaning? I'm not sure. Wrapping it up in this way makes it more digestible and helps people to organise themselves with a group outside of what they may have been comfortable previously, which I think is a useful starting point, but I think maybe it swings too far in the opposite direction for me. We as a society are exhausted and with each new generation, I think that becomes apparent. This book touches on burnout and the background about how this movement came about, but with rising levels of mental health issues and burnout, I think this only really scratches the surface of what is going on.

I started to lose interest in some of the discussion when it moved into the 'goblin aesthetic'. This to me is the antithesis of the meaning of this. Yes, we can 'thrift' and buy 'second hand' but aspiring to look a certain way and labelling this as a goblin aesthetic and having frog/nature imagery is perhaps unhelpful. That's literally a pinterest board waiting to happen. Are we moving back into the realm of trying to look a certain way? To me, it's trying to project a certain image to fit into a norm around what this concept is. That to me, made no sense as I don't see 'goblin mode' as extending to having mushroom imagery etc in my home and me wearing beige and greens.
It's more of an expression of who I am, being authentic and finding what I like and not worrying about outside forces. I can wear clothes that are authentic to me without fitting into what this book describes as the 'goblin aesthetic'. I don't need to wear corduroy and look like a sterotypical witch to do this. I can be in goblin mode and paint my house pink and have kittens painted on the wall if I want, was this book not telling me that messaging a few pages back?

Overall, I like the discussions and the journal aspect of this book but I think it's meaning by the end had watered down and it tapered out. I think the messaging got muddled for me, is this book trying to tell me what goblin mode is and should be, or is it showing me a way to live a more authentic life and to question a perfect curated life and its worth, which goblin mode encourages?

I am in goblin mode! This was a fun book with some good self reflective activities. It helps with acceptance and rejecting unrealistic societal expectations.

Sometimes books just aren’t for you. This was one of those for me. To start, I’m not sure it should really qualify as a ‘book’ as it’s more a guided journal really. There’s a few passages of text encouraging you to let go of perfectionism and to let yourself fall into a more chaotic (and less stressful) way of living but it’s primarily pages with prompts encouraging you to explore how to achieve a healthy level of goblin mode.

I would say this qualifies as a ‘low content’ book. The pages at the back for ‘fashion doodles’ seemed almost irrelevant. The book had good potential based on the premise but ultimately I felt let down.

Cute book. Not really so much about full on goblin mode as taking some of those lessons to help with balance. Could you be a bit less of a perfectionist? Go for good enough is enough. The exercises were thought provoking.

I love this concept. I'm so here for it. Number one fan, so supportive, I am in goblin mode. Viewing this book as just-for-funsies, the short exercises offer some thoughtful moments. I love the perspective regarding self-care and rejecting unrealistic societal expectations. Would make a great bookish gift for the goblin in your life.

Thank you to netgalley for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a fun, nicely illustrated book with thoughtful exercises throughout it. There were many typos that bothered me at first but then halfway through the book I realized that totally goes along with the theme/idea here!