slow

Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre
$16.95
If you are stressed, frustrated, rushed along, read this book. It is straightforward and clear about how to get off that fast track, how to make your life meaningful and fulfilling. This book is a manual for those who need to slow down and smell the flowers. Her prescriptions are community, simplicity, creativity - no airy-fairy idealism here - just experience and wisdom from living and learning. You will no longer let yourself be swept along with the madness but recreate yourself and your life in order to find deep and lasting satisfaction.

Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town
$50.00
Talk about a book that brings you to the heart of a town and captures your heart, Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town does exactly that!

Each of Gayeton's photographs are actually a clever montage/collage of photographs taken over a period of time ranging from seven minutes to several hours. They are so cleverly connected that it is hard to believe the shot isn't just a single shot. The photographs are primarily done in sepia often with overlays of the authors notes, anecdotes, factual information and more. The book also contains recipes.

You truly feel as though you are transported into the town and into a slower way of life. One where you can grab a basket and collect mushrooms or herbs. A life where you and your family can spend hours at dinner eating, talking and laughing because nowhere is more important than where you are now.

If you have read Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun or Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy and were captured by her prose; Douglas Gayeton's Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town will allow you to experience the same admiration and love for Tuscany, but through his marvelous photographs that are coupled with his observations.

I'm ready to pack my bags and move!

The Power of Slow: Inding Balance and Fulfillment beyond the Cult of Speed
$24.95
Disappointed by this one. I don't see the value for the money in this. You don't really need somebody to teach you how to slow down. You just do it. You come up with your own ways of slowing down. Slowing down is simple, but not easy. So you have to work it out on your own. So, to be fair, some may find this a good audio book. But why pay to listen to somebody tell you how to slow down when you can just do it. Right now, for example, I can choose to type a little slower, and you can choose to read a little slower. Pause. Breathe. Let the slow revolution begin!

Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining
$19.95
I recently downloaded this cookbook to my Kindle, and found it was too cumbersome to be useful. So today I downloaded the Kindle for PC application, and then put this cookbook onto the computer. It works fine now! I have not yet tried any of the recipes, but I plan to do so soon.