Feng shui : arranging your home to change your life by Kirsten Lagatree.
What can I say? It's ok for a very basic overview. I appreciated that she explained the origins of some fung shui concepts, such as why it's auspicious to have your house point south (because winds from the north blew nasty yellow dust). At the same time, though, it just served to prove to me how much of fung shui is superstitious crap. If the north wind isn't a problem here, why should I care what they do in China?
The ultimate "crap-o-meter" advice was this: if you have 3 doorways lined up, put bamboo flutes over the middle one, because flute sounds like "disappear" in Chinese, so the doorway will seem to disappear and no longer block the chi. Yeah. Whatever. That and hanging crystals everywhere just don't do it for me.
Posted by rachel at January 20, 2005 12:51 PM