No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

This was surprisingly good! I picked it out for being short and not too serious, but turns out to have some good fun and wisdom hiding in it. (Audible reader was the author, and not great, but definitely still worth a read/listen.)

3.5 stars. Come on, Goodreads! When are you going to enable 1/2 star ratings? Anyway, I love what the writer has discovered in her journey of extreme minimalism. Being a person who had been traumatised by the fact that life is filled with uncertainties, Clara threw herself into the most uncertain situation of all: Travelling Europe with a man she just met on OkCupid with just the clothes on her back! Gosh golly. It could go horribly wrong, or wonderfully right. Fortunately, she didn't end up a serial killer's victim but neither did she get an Eat, Pray, Love pinnacle moment either. In the end, her confidence that life is uncertain and it's okay is strengthened, and that's something to be celebrated.

The only problem I have with the book is that I wished it was better organised so that her message about uncertainty was better communicated. For a while, I wondered what was the point of her ramblings. Luckily I stayed till the end.