Living With Less – Simply Books
August 19, 2012 in Simple Living Book Club
I got the privilege of reviewing Joshua Becker’s new book Living With Less this month. It was released last Wednesday Aug 15.
It was not my intent to turn this blog into a bunch of reviews and now I am doing 2 in one month. Trust me, this is not going to be the new norm 
Just a coincidence that 2 of my favorite bloggers happen to be publishing in the same month.
For full disclosure I received a free digital copy of this book. Joshua had a post up on his site asking for bloggers to review and I applied to be a reviewer in exchange for a book (a pretty cool perk of blogging). I am not being paid in any other way. I agreed to post about the book, but this is my honest review of the book.
I enjoyed this book. It is a shorter book but it covers the topic well. It has everything I love – minimalism, Christianity, and personal story all wrapped up into one.
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– I was very excited to read this book and it exceeded my expectations. This is a huge book motivating, storytelling, and explaining how to create value and freedom in the form of a business. I loved this book because it doesn’t talk about creating a million dollar idea (which isn’t bad… just less likely) or building a huge businesses. It is about creating income to meet your personal needs, dreams, and goals. These were mostly small businesses, started with very little capital (hence the name) and provided good money as well as personal freedom for the owners.
that was released last week by Jeff Goins. I signed up on his site a few weeks ago to do a review in exchange for a copy of his book. So, unlike most of my book reviews, I did technically receive some compensation for this one…I got a free copy of the ebook. However, don’t tell Jeff, I would have bought his book as soon as it was out because I was really excited to read it 
– I loved this book! It was inspiring, and fun to read. Chris Guillebeau just seems like such a great guy. He advocates intentional living, benefiting others, travel, self-employment and enjoying life. I don’t remember the page or the exact quote but he said something to the affect that ‘he would rather work 24 hours for himself than 1 hour for someone else’. I could relate to that. We have loved working for ourselves and hope we can continue.
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. Loved them all. Really, I would recommend his books to everyone. He writes about business, but the kind of business he writes about is what everyone needs to know. Everyone is, or should be, in business of some sort. His books are easy reads with simple to understand, deep concepts. Even though his books are short they are packed. I could write almost the whole book out to you as a quote I loved. I can’t wait to get more of his books. He breaks rules and asks the right questions. Entertaining, though provoking, motivating, mind changing, good stuff.
a lot…I think I can quote it in my sleep now. My favorite quote from my book is:
– this is a fat book, but I am 28 pages in and I am really enjoying it. He founded 
– I love the stuff that comes from 
. I loved the beginning and got about 2/3rds of the way through before I put it down. … usually the beginning is the best part. He is a brilliant man.
. I like Leo’s website and writing, but the book just didn’t grab me.
. I thought the writing was good, and he used words and structure well. I am just a non-fiction person, and the fiction I like to read needs to be all rosy and happy (cause reality is dark enough sometimes)
. It is basically a collection of short ‘posts’ on different attitudes or practices for a good life. Lots of it wasn’t new, but it was a good reminder. It was short, sweet, entertaining, to the point and easy to understand.
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