New Domesticity

Simply the introduction caught my eye, “I could keep going (and going and going), but you get the picture: the career girl---gone---Green Acres the memoir is the new chick lit. Our new collective escapist fantasy is more likely to involve a Vermont farmhouse and a cute Anthropologie apron than a SoHo loft and a pair of Manolos.”

“Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity” by Emily Matchar is a must read book for those interested in the embrace of this new domesticity. You could be in any domestic role and/or in any profession, because this book is not about the how to be the new domesticity, but rather about this new social movement that has taken the country. It follows various domestic concepts since Colonial time to current trends. Topics such as: homemaking, blogging, the Etsy phenomenon, DIY food movement, and attachment parenting are its focus. Matchar avoids writing opinions, but rather reports on historical facts and real life accounts.

 

So if you have ever been intrigued by this new domesticity movement, pick up the book, it’s a quick read and I simply loved it!

Let me know what you thought of it when you finish!

Considering this quick book review/suggestion, I thought it’d be fun to read a book a month and write about it (you can join me if you’d like and it’ll be a little mini online book club!) The book I’m reading for the month of September and will review in October is a book mentioned in “Homeward Bound” and also rumored to be a future movie starring Reese Witherspoon. It is “The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels---A Love Story” by Ree Drummond. It’s a true story about a city chick falling madly in love with a swoon-worthy cowboy and her new life on their ranch. She too has a blog at The Pioneer Woman.

Happy Reading!