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It's Not Your Turn: What to Do While You're Waiting for Your Breakthrough by Heather Thompson Day
authoramyearls's review
5.0
This book was full of facts and helpful tools to learn how to wait and the importance of having wilderness seasons. I also liked the personal examples from Heather. She's a passionate advocate for women. I highly recommend listening to her podcast, Viral Jesus.
haveyoumetlisa's review
3.0
3.5. I wanted to like this book, because Heather Thompson Day is one of my favorite people on Twitter. She is full of encouragement, Biblical truth, humor, and good stories. But this book seemed to not be able to decide what kind of book it wanted to be. Part Christian life, part business strategy, part conversational blog post - it was all over the place. If she had stuck to one style, I think that would have improved it immensely.
Partly due to the differing styles, I think, each chapter also had contradicting information. For example, she talks about the importance of networking, but not just to get numbers on social media, to build real relationships and care for your neighbors. But then later in the chapter, she says you also need to just build your network with as many people as you can, just to have as big of a network as possible for future opportunities.
Along those lines, this book seems to be mostly focused on career breakthroughs, which is fine! But several times she brings up her unmarried friend who is waiting for love, or people who are waiting for babies. Business strategies will not apply to those situations (I mean, networking might lead to a love connection, but it won't help with infertility). So again, she tries to do too much and does not have a focus.
All that being said, it was full of Biblical truths and good advice, if you fit one of the random intersections of writing style and situation she addresses. For me, I'll stick to reading her Twitter feed.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free digital copy for review, all opinions are my own.
Partly due to the differing styles, I think, each chapter also had contradicting information. For example, she talks about the importance of networking, but not just to get numbers on social media, to build real relationships and care for your neighbors. But then later in the chapter, she says you also need to just build your network with as many people as you can, just to have as big of a network as possible for future opportunities.
Along those lines, this book seems to be mostly focused on career breakthroughs, which is fine! But several times she brings up her unmarried friend who is waiting for love, or people who are waiting for babies. Business strategies will not apply to those situations (I mean, networking might lead to a love connection, but it won't help with infertility). So again, she tries to do too much and does not have a focus.
All that being said, it was full of Biblical truths and good advice, if you fit one of the random intersections of writing style and situation she addresses. For me, I'll stick to reading her Twitter feed.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free digital copy for review, all opinions are my own.
lneff514's review
5.0
Inspiring, honest, funny... a helpful counter-perspective on the productive time of waiting.
josiahdegraaf's review
5.0
This is a fantastic book on such an important problem we need to be prepared to face (and face well) in our lives. Day approaches this topic with a great blend of Scripture, psychological insights, and practical reasoning that helped her give a number of practical insights on the art of cultivating patience and contentment during periods of waiting. While I sometimes came from a different place theologically than Day was, particularly toward the latter third of the book, I appreciated hearing her perspective, and those parts certainly didn't detract from the rest of her thesis. At the end of the day, I'm personally thankful to have read this book and considered Day's wise advice right now.
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Very Good).
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Very Good).
lydiagwaybright's review
5.0
I feel like this book was written for me. It encouraged me so much. It’s conversational, yet researched, plus Scriptural.