The Top 7 Most Fun Things To Do Nude: The Title Says It All! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798251280715)

Let's be honest. You read that title and you didn't put this book down. That means we're already off to a great start.

Kristin Williams is a thirty-nine-year-old Pacific Northwest nudist, suburban Seattle homeowner, Volvo driver, dahlia grower, and eight-year veteran of taking her clothes off in places that most people wouldn't consider. She is not a philosopher. She is not a guru. She is a woman who discovered that removing her clothing in various contexts made her life significantly better, funnier, and more interesting, and she has written a book about it that is one part practical guide, one part hilarious memoir, and one part genuine argument for why you should probably try this.

Across seven chapters covering the best nude activities available to the modern human being, Kristin walks you through everything from skinny dipping - the gateway drug to nudism that started it all on a cold Cascade lake at eleven o'clock at night, entirely Tanya's fault - to nude hiking, where the squirrels have opinions and the sunscreen situation is non-negotiable. She covers nude cooking, which is simultaneously the most dangerous and most rewarding domestic upgrade available, and nude yoga, where hot yoga without a grip towel will teach you things about physics you did not want to learn. She takes you through nude travel across Croatia and France and Florida and hot springs in the Cascades, through nude dinner parties and potlucks where the fondue forfeit involves a December deck in Seattle, and finally into the garden, where three years of peaceful nude gardening ended abruptly when a neighbor produced binoculars and a man named Matt arrived with a clipboard and left with significantly fewer illusions about his authority.

Along the way you will meet Tanya, who is the best friend and the reason for approximately sixty percent of the best decisions and the chaos. You will meet Susan, whose contributions to any situation reliably include drama, escalation, and at least one fart at a pivotal moment. You will meet Grace, who is Orthodox Christian and meets Kristin at Starbucks and is somehow the wisest person in every room she enters. You will meet Matt, the HOA president, who should not have brought the clipboard.

This book is funny. It is honest. It is genuinely informative about nudist culture, nude travel destinations, hot spring etiquette, resort culture, the towel rule, the sunscreen situation, and why nude cooking requires an apron but no pants. It is also, underneath all of that, a book about what happens when you spend eight years accumulating evidence that your body is sufficient exactly as it is, in every water and on every trail and in every kitchen and garden you bring it to.

You do not need to be a nudist to read this book. You do not need to become one. You just need to be a person who is curious about what it might feel like to be genuinely, practically, hilariously comfortable in your own skin.

The water is right there. Come on in.