I can’t wait to read Lindy West’s new book, Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, which will be released next week. As a librarian, I don’t actually buy very many books, I embrace the fact that I can borrow them from the library, and I really try to minimize my possessions. This book, however, along with Roxane Gay’s forthcoming Hunger, are books I just know I need to own. I preordered them as soon as I possibly could. While neither of these books are ‘yoga’ books, they are about self-acceptance, self-awareness, and body image. The Guardian published an excerpt from Shrill this weekend, and it has made me even more eager to get the book in my hands. It resonates with me so profoundly: “The “perfect body” is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body.” Read the article, it is worth your time. Do NOT read the comments attached to the article, they are definitely not worth your time. Let us all go forth and live big, happy, adventurous lives.
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