My main critique is I felt the "tips" section of each chapter definitely felt like the weakest part, it felt like the part the author spent the least amount of time on.

God master designed the human body to benefit from walking, enjoying nature, slowing down( so we can enjoy the earth He created), and developing kindred spirits. I'll definitely be trying quite a few of these out myself, starting with meditation walks and walking backward. I didn't completely finish this because it was due back to the library but I read enough to know that in my case, it was preaching to the choir. Ways to Walk is published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Putnam Penguin Random House in the US under Annabel Streets. Each chapter talks about a different approach to walking and then talks about specific items you might need for your walk.So either this book needed another edit to not allow readers to misconstrue these chapters, or the readers are being lied to. I was most touched by the end of the book when the author states that this was her love letter to walking, and a tribute to her father who refused to drive, and who also passed away while she wrote the book. Walking lowers your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis, improves cholesterol levels, helps you build strong bones and slows any bone loss as you age. Ideas to engage all the senses, different times of day, terrain, moods, duration, health benefits, etc. Even as I was putting this on reserve at my local library, I strongly suspected that this was going to be one of those Buzzfeed-style listicles padded out into a full book, which I'm a real sucker for because I'm always holding out hope that the next one will be that rare exception and actually justify its page count; but alas, this turned out to be exactly what I suspected, a book that promises to provide creative and interesting ways to change up your daily walking habit every single week throughout a year, but then is filled with silly nonsense like, "Week 3: Take a walk while you smile at people!

You definitely have to adjust the day to allow for the increased travel time, but once I made the trip I wondered why I hadn't done so before.The weekly format means chapters are brief and to the point, and clear chapter titles make it an easy book to read either straight through or cherry-picking based on interest.