Book Review: Why Cleaning Has Meaning

Book: Why Cleaning has Meaning: Bringing Wellbeing Into Your Home by Linda Thomas

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/Netgalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

Few of us enjoy cleaning: it often feels like a thankless, repetitive task which we force ourselves to do. Linda Thomas is an expert, professional cleaner who ran her own ecological cleaning company for over twenty years. In this unique book, she explores her passion for cleaning, and argues that cleaning can have a profound effect not just on the spaces we care for, but on our own wellbeing and personal development.

This lively and readable book is full of anecdotes, practical examples and ecological cleaning tips from Linda's decades of cleaning experience. Ultimately she argues that if we raise our understanding of cleaning, we might even begin to enjoy it!



Rating: 1 star (Did Not Finish)

Review:

Have you ever listened to a speech or lecture where the speaker obviously knew what they were talking about (or loved what they were doing) but the boring way it was presented ruined everything about it. And that's exactly how this book is.

It's so beyond boring that I couldn't read one more word of it. This book looks at cleaning more from a spiritual sort of way. It discusses the meaning of cleaning (although at the end of the book there is a section with cleaning tips).

What I read wasn't a complete bore, I did find the cleaning customs from other countries interesting but not enough to continue reading.

I think this would have been a really good read if it was presented in a more interesting format. Something I did like was the cover, it has a very Zen quality to it.