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

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!

This Goblin loves this book ❤️

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

Cute and Relaxing Listen

The bad reviews are just people who fail to see any side other than their limited understanding of the world. Most of the book consists of adorable crafting ideas and supporting individualism and inclusiveness. Being kind to the person in a wheelchair, thrifting, people with different skin color than you, etc. is not radical. Neither is going outside and touching grass or deciding to do things that are better for the planet or embracing little crafting projects to decorate your home and clothes. Stop being such silly, angry people. This is a cute book and most of it is just cozy ideas and there is nothing wrong with that. Corporations and billionaires don’t care about you. Only a very select few will ever be part of that club and that doesn’t include so stop crying and pretending to be a victim and move on. Hating on such innocent, wholesome concepts is just sad and pathetic. It’s a cute book not some radical thing. Sheesh.

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.