Eat, Pray, Slow, Love

I'm not a fan of the self-improvement memoir genre, but I thought I would give it a try when the BlogHer Book Club picked it as their next read.  A lot like in Eat, Pray, Love we enter on a woman at the pricepice of a major life change. 

Dominique Browning was editor-in-chief of House & Garden magazine until it folded in 2007.  Life so many she went from gainfully employed, to sleeping in and spending a lot of time in her pajamas.  But not just any pajamas, Lanz and Brooks Brothers Bowning makes a point to let you know she is the height of unemployment chic.  

Like a lot of reviewers of Slow Love by Dominique Browning, I would have tossed this book aside after a few chapters, if not for my promise to make it to the end.  Browning fills the first 200 pages with unnecessary details, messy timeline, and Stroller.  Stroller was probably my least favorite part of the book.  Stroller is her Legally-separated quasi boyfriend who refuses to leave his wife.  Stroller makes it very clear multiple times that he is not interested in a long term relationship and that he has no plans of moving out of his apartment that he shares with his ex.  As much I wanted to find some shred of sympathy for this women I just couldn't. 

For those of you who choose to pick up a copy of Slow Love and battle trough the mess that is this first 200 pages, you will be rewarded.  The last two chapters of Slow Love show that Dominique Browning is a very talented writer. Browning finally finds her footing and voice and produces a poetic ending.  Or maybe I was just so excited for the book to be over, and to never have to read about Stroller again.