Goblin Mode

How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck

De: McKayla Coyle

Narrado por: Julia Atwood

Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, proud weirdness, and joyful mess.

Do you ever feel strange, gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don’t quite fit in? Great news: you might be a goblin! That means your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more balanced, comfortable, harmonious life by accepting and honoring them—taking inspiration from the frogs, fungus, moss, rocks, and dirt that goblins love.

Can a mushroom give you fashion tips? Can a snail teach you to be a better person? You bet they can—and in this audiobook you’ll also learn to:

• Build a moss garden for your lair,
• Grow and use medicinal plants,
• Forage for berries (even in the city),
• Mend your cozy sweaters,
• Display your cool rock collection,
• And more!

Anyone can be a goblin, and Goblin Mode includes life advice for celebrating physical and mental diversity, rejecting prejudice, and generally hanging on to a little joy.

Goblin Mode will help you rethink your relationship with your body, your home, your community, and the earth.

©2023 Quirk Productions, Inc (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

This Goblin loves this book ❤️

This book spoke to the core of who I am. I loved so much a bought the hardcover too.

A lot of good things but...

This book almost feels like it's a thinly veiled message about anti-capitalism. Sure, there are probably plenty of anti-capitalist people in this community. However, it doesn't NEED to be part of a persons identity to be or like goblin-core. Yes, goblin-core entails making and recycling a lot of things and finding natural solutions, which is wonderful! But your existence doesn't have to be a continuous, conscious statement against capitalism. Frankly, that sounds stressful and exhausting. I'm not saying people shouldn't care about these things. It's just not what I was looking for or expecting when I decided to give this book a listen. It had elements of what I was looking for, but was too over the top with the political angle.

Also, the message about green spaces is confusing. Apparently lots of people don't have access because of.... reasons? The author says it's because of costs and racism/classism but doesn't actually elaborate on why or how. State park passes are not prohibitively expensive (in my state at least, a yearly pass is only $16) and while I can see transportation being a bigger issue, that wasn't even mentioned. The author even uses a passing mention of the Flint water crisis as an example of this restriction, which was terrible but doesn't have anything to do with access to green spaces and nature. It felt like they were throwing that in there just to make another political statement. However.... in the beginning of the book the author talks about how nature is just outside, literally everywhere. And the author mentions in the foraging section, how easy it can be to forage in the city (which implies nature and greenery IS accessible, just not in the same way as a large park perhaps). So their message really doesn't make much sense here.

So overall, I give this 3 stars for the helpful messages and tutorials and the encouragement for being yourself; along with the wonderful narration. But I docked 2 stars for the heavy handed political message and confusing information about access to nature.

Very comforting

This is a classic comfy guide to adding joy into your life. It was a little too short, and I would have loved more deep dives into the subjects. but overall a nice read.

Goblin mode engaged!

I truly adore this book! I downloaded it for a girls weekend out in the Forrest and we both thought it spoke to our little goblin souls! Thank you for this book!

If you want to play a drinking game

Every time the author mentions anti-capitalism, take a shot. home economics meets counterculture. Has potential to help novices out in accepting themselves and learning how to be more environmentally conscious, yet I think it fell short on how to discuss difficult social topics without inciting a negative emotional response.
Comparing yourself to others and talking negatively about them is a surefire way to make everyone miserable.

Goblin Mode was Amazing!

This is the “self help” book (if you can call it that) that I ever want or need! Embracing who we are and our strengths whilst connecting to nature 🌱🐸💚

I like that it's for embracing oneself except...

Everyone is different and this does well at communicating that it's great to be different. It just felt very repetitive and a bit anti-capitalism from the get go and maintained that theme throughout.

Why would goblins hate capitalism?

Thought this book was going to be interesting but it seems like an attempt for someone to push Anti-capitialism pro-woke agenda through the lense of a fanasty goblin.

Goblins existing in our society would be capitalists because they like collecting oddities. No one is preventing you from exploring nature and collecting what makes you happy.

White guilt

Just when I would start getting into what she was saying, she would get political again. She’d say things that didn’t make any sense like how nature is only accessible to rich white people. I lived in Oakland, Tilden national park was right around the corner, and was accessible to anybody. I feel like it was a stretch, nothings more cringe worthy than listening to a white woman talk about white guilt.

Not for the mother drowning in the muck

I thought I was going to be able to find useful ways to survive the muck and embrace the imperfections of motherhood. Instead I was meet with something’s I understood and agreed with and then there was this phrase gender is fake because worms are hermaphrodites. In my Christian faith this statement confused me as in what they were meaning. There are many animals that are hermaphrodites. That has nothing to do with the gender of humans. I feel it was misleading as it give you no tools on how to live a more carefree lifestyle as it portrays. I couldn’t even continue reading the book because of a few other statements that I didn’t agree with and the way the book was going it did not feel like it was actually gonna help me survive in the muck.