NetGalley review

This is more self awareness than mindfulness, as a mediation teacher, they are narrowing those concepts without saying it. Yet adding their own I wouldn’t call mindfulness but something entirely different.

This book would be great for younger people students etc who struggle to understand and comprehend what they read.

This title is part of a series on mindfulness. Previous titles have included Mindfulness in Gardening, Mindfulness in Knitting and, Mindfulness in Wild Swimming, among others. The wide range of subject matters shows that mindfulness can be approached/practiced in many ways.

The world feels so shaky at times that mindfulness may become more popular than ever. Those who already enjoy reading will, I think, find that if mindfulness is needed, here is one way to embrace it. This book has chapters on topics like losing yourself in a book, ways to read, reading like a child, sharing the joy of reading, finding one’s self in a book, and putting down books. There are also helpful resources at the end of the title.

Note that the reader’s guide through this book is a true bibliophile. I enjoyed what she had to say from the very beginning when she writes about how she taught herself to read at age five. She has not stopped since and is a bibliotherapist who takes her work seriously.

I liked that this book encouraged me to think about how I read. Mindfulness in the process will add to my approach and enjoyment.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this title. All opinions are my own.

I have read a lot of books about reading books but this was by far the nicest - and also had suggestions I had not yet considered. I now have a list of reading resolutions and a list of other books to read. For me this is the ideal outcome.

Reading has long been a meditative experience for me and when I saw this title, I knew I wanted to read it.

I really wanted to love this book but much of it didn’t work for me and I found this to very much be a ‘take what you like and leave the rest’ book.

I hope other readers enjoy this more.



Thank you to Leaping Hare Press and NetGalley for the temporary PDF

As an avid reader, and whose favourite meditative activity is reading, I was so hoping to love this book, but it was not for me.
I do not wish to go into any details, and I hope other readers will find value and enjoyment in this book,

Review coming soon!

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC.

Opinions are mine.