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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
Only billionaire I'd vote for. Chapter 9/revolution of the heart section SLAPPED
Very powerful message. Giving 4/5 because non fiction is typically a slower read for me. But still really good and would recommend it!
For a long time, I didn't read this book thinking it was just about their charity work. But I heard Melinda Gates interviewed by David Letterman on Netflix and was intrigued. It was an amazing, inspirational nonfiction about her personal life and how she has worked to bring women's rights to the forefront. It tugs you at your heart and I only wish all women were as equal as men in not only this country but all places around the world.
This bio had a lot of great moments. I genuinely enjoyed reading about Melinda French Gates life and how she, herself, was in computer science and made her way up through Microsoft when it was a startup.
The way she covered all of the humanitarian work was incredible and inspiring. She makes me want to be and do better. She touched so much on women in work, women in leadership, and just how much representation matters for the health and safety of future women.
I wanted to highlight all of chapter 5! It was so moving. On more than one occasion I teared up. Women helping women is just so beautiful. I need more of this book’s energy and wisdom in my everyday life.
The way she covered all of the humanitarian work was incredible and inspiring. She makes me want to be and do better. She touched so much on women in work, women in leadership, and just how much representation matters for the health and safety of future women.
I wanted to highlight all of chapter 5! It was so moving. On more than one occasion I teared up. Women helping women is just so beautiful. I need more of this book’s energy and wisdom in my everyday life.
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Insightful, thought provoking, and a book I will continue to reference for years to come.
Melinda outlines and simply states many ideas and feelings that I relate to, needed to hear, and impacted me greatly.
Highly recommend!
Melinda outlines and simply states many ideas and feelings that I relate to, needed to hear, and impacted me greatly.
Highly recommend!
Interesting and important topic, but way too bad delivery.
I was honestly fighting internally about what rating to give to this book. There are some passages which I found deeply revealing and important, worth 5 stars, but then there would come parts of the book which almost made me quit reading and just give 1 star. In the end I am giving 3 stars just because the book tackles some important problems in today's countries in transition, otherwise the way Melinda Gates writes and tells stories is 2 stars at max.
Where to even start? I could write an essay 2 pages long about what annoyed me in the book, not because I am a "misogynist pig", but because I found some parts of the book so good and important that I felt she was ruining the book and the message it needs to send by drowning it in unnecessary page filling plain nonsense.
The topic of the book is helping women, especially in countries in transition, not about Melinda's inner fights with her religion or her thoughts about the Catholic Church. I was honestly surprised at how badly her self-awareness was while writing the book. She talks about how she doesn't want to appear as a "privileged, rich, white lady" and then proceeds to do the very same thing in 2 chapters.
Don't even get me started on the use of the word "empowerment" in today's time. She even writes in the book that she doesn't want to use that word because it gets way too often misinterpreted and then proceeds to name the book with the word she avoids to use..
Honestly, I am so disappointed in this book, I expected way more, especially when so important topics are concerned. I recommend to people to just read Hans Rosling's book Factfulness, which is 10x a better read while having the same importance.
The only reason I actually respect the book is because it managed to convey the message at how important contraception and birth control are for women in poorer countries.
I cannot help myself to find it deeply ironic at how much unnecessarily she wrote about her faith, religion, church, and the love for Bill Gates and their relationship and marriage. Bill is a person who respects women, equal partner, etc. And then proceeds to divorce him not even two years later... Life is a living meme.
I was honestly fighting internally about what rating to give to this book. There are some passages which I found deeply revealing and important, worth 5 stars, but then there would come parts of the book which almost made me quit reading and just give 1 star. In the end I am giving 3 stars just because the book tackles some important problems in today's countries in transition, otherwise the way Melinda Gates writes and tells stories is 2 stars at max.
Where to even start? I could write an essay 2 pages long about what annoyed me in the book, not because I am a "misogynist pig", but because I found some parts of the book so good and important that I felt she was ruining the book and the message it needs to send by drowning it in unnecessary page filling plain nonsense.
The topic of the book is helping women, especially in countries in transition, not about Melinda's inner fights with her religion or her thoughts about the Catholic Church. I was honestly surprised at how badly her self-awareness was while writing the book. She talks about how she doesn't want to appear as a "privileged, rich, white lady" and then proceeds to do the very same thing in 2 chapters.
Don't even get me started on the use of the word "empowerment" in today's time. She even writes in the book that she doesn't want to use that word because it gets way too often misinterpreted and then proceeds to name the book with the word she avoids to use..
Honestly, I am so disappointed in this book, I expected way more, especially when so important topics are concerned. I recommend to people to just read Hans Rosling's book Factfulness, which is 10x a better read while having the same importance.
The only reason I actually respect the book is because it managed to convey the message at how important contraception and birth control are for women in poorer countries.
I cannot help myself to find it deeply ironic at how much unnecessarily she wrote about her faith, religion, church, and the love for Bill Gates and their relationship and marriage. Bill is a person who respects women, equal partner, etc. And then proceeds to divorce him not even two years later... Life is a living meme.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced