Slow Love

Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness by Dominique Browning

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Slow Love" is about the author's loss of a job editing "House and Garden" when Conde Nast decided to fold the magazine -- she had started it 13 years earlier -- and how she rediscovered herself in a slower, less spectacular manner than the she was used to during her prestigious career. She cleaned a lot. Spent a lot of time in pajamas. Learned new music on the piano. Gardened and tried to learn to cook. She also ended a toxic relationship with a guy who refused to divorce his wife -- he remained legally separated from her for years -- and sold her NYC house to save money and moved permanently into her second smaller home in Rhode Island.



Since I'm not interested in cooking, the "Slow Love" metaphor, which is a play on "slow food" bored me.

She wrote a little about the brutish corporate culture of Conde Nast and I'm disappointed that I didn't learn how she coped. I'm sure she signed a severance agreement.

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