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Tales From The Yoga Studio (2010)

by Rain Mitchell(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0452296919 (ISBN13: 9780452296916)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Plume

review 1: Pretty much what I expected: a quick read with just enough plot to keep me engaged. And since I have a daughter who owns a yoga studio some of the events were especially familiar. It was fun to recognize some of the yoga references such as instructors who have almost achieved deity status in the yoga world IE: Bikram and Rodney Yee and of course, the much maligned Lululemon yoga wear.A fun book that would pair nicely with a beach and sunshine.
review 2: A chick-lit novel that centers around a yoga studio. Overall it started off well, but quickly deteriorated into cliches--the married couple with troubles. The former drug addict trying to move forward. A woman who seems to have it all but has to overcome an awful loss. Blah blah blah blah blah.Initially engagi... moreng, after a while I found I couldn't really care about the characters and had trouble keeping them apart. My paperback version had a helpful guide to the four main characters, but even when reading and re-reading it I got bored out of my mind. Something about the author's writing style is off too. I found she was pretty good at the end of sections to have mini-cliffhangers that kept me reading. But the meat of the text got tedious to read, and as I said, none of the characters were particularly memorable. Some of them are a little more memorable than others, but otherwise I wasn't impressed. I suppose part of it was that yoga in itself doesn't really play a big role in the story. There are some aspects of the business-side that didn't surprise me, but overall yoga isn't really a major backdrop. It could have been a coffee shop, a clothing store or something else and it wouldn't have made much of a difference in terms of the stories for the characters.A beach read for a yogi, I suppose. Library or buy it as a bargain. less

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