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Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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beebowbabe's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

Glennon Doyle has the unique ability to see inside my (and clearly many others') mind and heart. This book is raw and beautiful and challenges you to be the best version of yourself. 
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neni's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

 
I enjoyed this. I liked the writing when the author was talking about specific life experiences, in particular about her relationships with her kids and her wife. You can really tell she loves them deeply, and she has a lovely way to describe her feelings. In each section, her narrative style is strong, emotional and compelling, which is just what you need in this type of book. 
However, a few things I didn’t quite like as much were: 
- the fact she didn’t fully explore/deepen any of the topics she talked about. There were lots of important topics she touched upon with plenty of useful insights, but somehow she managed to make most reflections quite surface level. I would have liked to see some of the nitty gritty explored in more detail.

-there were quite a few sections in the book where she was touching on more spiritual/religious/philosophical ideas where the writing came off as a bit too cringey and cheesy for me. Not that there weren’t some interesting insights, but I could definitely tell she used to be from a religious backround just from the way she phrased certain things. She wasn’t literally preaching any religion per se, but the style was similar to a lot of religious speech which made me a bit uncomfortable to be honest and took a little of the relatability away for me.
 
Still, overall I found this to be engaging and it definitely tugged at my heart strings
 
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