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This Is Home: The Art of Simple Living

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I mention this because in my life I have seen that women living without male partners decorate differently. At just ninety pages, it is a quick but enlightening read about a fourteen year old girl's struggle with mental illness. All in all, this was such a beautifully well-written portrayal of mental illness from a perspective we don't always hear about. I'd have liked to see some more development here as well as some more evolved considerations in the noted areas.

BOOKS — Natalie Walton BOOKS — Natalie Walton

The secret to living simply is to be able to afford to live in a beautiful old building with lots of character and big windows and natural light so that you don’t need much stuff to make your home beautiful. Actually, sometimes it can make mental illness worse because it's a new person to deal with and there are lots of unknowns with new people. Readers familiar with Caribbean culture will enjoy the interjections of Trinidadian dialect and phrases throughout the story. Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini is the 2017 third place winner of the Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature.This is Home provides examples and case studies of places with a global and timeless feel that haven't always been renovated in the traditional sense but are true homes. Kayla, a Trinidadian residing in Trinidad, is shipped to care of her aunt in Canada after a failed suicide attempt.

This Is Home by Natalie Walton, Chris Warnes - Dymocks This Is Home by Natalie Walton, Chris Warnes - Dymocks

If home is where the heart is, Home Home is a great reminder that pieces of our heart can be left in different places whether or not it’s our will. Beautiful photography and gorgeously styled homes, but I didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here. I found the text fairly repetitive and, the further I flipped through the pages, I thought the interiors looked stylishly dishonest. The fact that I read this whole book and didn’t realize that I never knew the main character’s name until the end is beyond me. This book echoes how I would like to live, talks of beautiful stories of family and bio vignettes, places around the world and the love of collecting meaningful objects.

At present, it feels like there's not enough space for it to fully explore its potential but, equally, it offers a ton of potential for follow up activities and close reading exercises. She is also every Caribbean child who comes from a culture that is often unforgiving and lacking in understanding. I will say that I loved the fact that the main character got to live the life that she desired in the end and that she’s on the road to becoming a better person for her well-being.

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We deliver to Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Highlands and Islands but deliveries may take a little longer. When we see how others have decorated their home, we can appreciate it but we don't feel an urge to replicate it.Sent from Trinidad to live in Canada with Aunt Jillian and her wife Julie, Kayla struggles with anxiety and depression and a distant relationship with her old-fashioned mother Cynthia.

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