Happy summer! It is the time where many of us catch up on the books we've been meaning to read and discover familiar and new treasures to the book-lover heart.
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| My reading life transition! (Please pardon the poor drawing, but I like visuals!) |
A little bit about my book-lover heart, it used to beat strongly when I was a child and I was a regular at my local library. High school rolled around, it became more of a necessity rather than for pleasure. I used to casually read to procrastinate on homework or studying. Then college life happened, and I quickly discovered that pursuing an engineering degree didn't leave a lot of room for pleasure reading in my life. I would have rather have slept or played video games. Or I was just stuck in a computer lab for hours on end reading research papers (bleh).
Now that I have graduated, I realized that I no longer need to look at research papers or lecture notes.I CAN READ. And I've collected quite a few books in 5 years of college that have just been sitting on my bookshelves for appearances...
I am planning on starting a main series of Reviews of all things I love including video games, beauty products, food, books technology, fashion, tv shows, movies, and etc.
Here's the start to my book review series - Pumping a Book-Lover Heart. I want that passion to be pulsing through me again as I rediscover my love for books. I hope all of you can join me with discovering this amazing treasures of knowledge and creative travel.
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Pump #1 - "Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps"
I was walking through Urban Outfitters when I found this gem. What caught me was the title, "Adulting." I am no stranger to transfiguring the English dictionary to match colorful dialogue between friends. I flipped it open to a random chapter and I had to laugh at the simple statements of each step the author had to offer and the anecdotes that followed. I had to laugh over the sketch-up portraits of the infamous "frien-enemy" categories.
The book acts as more of a guideline for all things adult that you could ever think of wanting to know - relationships, jobs, basic maintenance, self-esteem, housekeeping, and etc. Some chapters applied more to me (job-hunting, family), whereas others were just friendly reminders. I believe this book can serve as a written moral compass to help you question if you are on your way of being an "adult."
Now the definition of being an adult can vary from person to person, but this book speaks to me as a whole of what I see myself as an adult. Happily successful with my career, healthy relationships with friends and family, maintaining a healthy lifestyle of food and beauty, and managing money. There are a LOT of tips in here, but it's written in a very straightforward and quirky, but with slight sarcasm that makes you feel like you're taking meaningful advice from a friend rather than ink and paper.
I know that there might be some eye-rolling over the very existence of this book. Why would I need to learn how to be an adult, when I've already survived 20-something years already of life? Shouldn't that already make me an adult? I SURVIVED COLLEGE - that must make me an adult. I sadly realized, not that is not the case. I may have taken care of my own apartment, got a degree, drive a car, and gotten several jobs, but still not an adult. This book made me realize that there is still SO much I can do to get to reach my personal standards of being an adult.
Silly and quirky as it is, still worth a read.
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Final Comments
Length: At 259 pages, not too bad. But 468 is intense.
Content: Some sections definitely more interesting than others, but depends on what you already know. The sections you do are an adult at = INSTANT ego boost
Attention Grabbing: It couldn't hold my attention for too long, it felt like a chore after going through 20 steps at at time. This is better as a quick read on the bus or a lunchbreak.
Price: Pretty steep at $15 out of Urban Outfitters.....but it is Urban Outfitters
Would recommend to college students to college graduates. Or if you're feeling generous, to someone you know that REALLY needs to learn how to take care of themselves, without you.
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