The Simplicity of Cozy: Hygge, Lagom & the Energy of Everyday Pleasures by Melissa Alvarez
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I was given this ARC by the publisher in return for an honest review.
The biggest difficulty I had with this book was the formatting of the file I was given; the entire text was just one big blob of words, starting with the publisher’s information. I kept flipping back and forth, trying to find the start of the actual book part. It was very confusing.
The book itself begins with a description of the various ideas of “cozy” in different cultures, then it switches abruptly to an exercise for the reader to complete…on being cozy? I had no idea what was going on.
Overall, this wasn’t really what I had expected from the description of the book. I must admit that most of my frustration stemmed from the formatting and sheer confusion it produced by not knowing what was going on and where I was with respect to the location in the book. What I did gather from the idea of being “cozy” is the fact that one simplifies certain aspects, as in organizes things in order to reduce clutter (mentally or physically) to achieve a state of comfort, which I did not get from this book. I cannot recommend it.
