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mads_jpg's review
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
2.5
I really liked the message of the book and definitely took away some good tactics from it (I've already limited my screen time and social media usage) but the writing itself just didn't land with me. Which is surprising given that it came at the perfect time in my life, as I've been overworked for weeks staying up past midnight ever night. I even fell asleep reading this on the tram at one point.
I found it incredibly repetitive (if I have to see the word "bamboozled" or "portal" one more time) and it frequently referenced other books to the point where I felt like I was reading them instead (Octavia Butler especially). The writing read more like a mantra or wishy-washy meditation, and that might work for some people but I just didn't connect with it. Even though the book has distinct chapters I felt like I was just rereading the last one each time. I think this would've worked better if it was either edited heavily or written as more of a memoir. That being said, I still think people should read it or at least look into the Nap Ministry.
I found it incredibly repetitive (if I have to see the word "bamboozled" or "portal" one more time) and it frequently referenced other books to the point where I felt like I was reading them instead (Octavia Butler especially). The writing read more like a mantra or wishy-washy meditation, and that might work for some people but I just didn't connect with it. Even though the book has distinct chapters I felt like I was just rereading the last one each time. I think this would've worked better if it was either edited heavily or written as more of a memoir. That being said, I still think people should read it or at least look into the Nap Ministry.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Grief, Classism, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic
laurareads87's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A visionary celebration of the transformative potentiality of a politics of refusal of capitalism's demands to be perpetually productive, to justify one's existence with output, and to only rest to be able to work harder later. Hersey defines rest as "anything that slows you down enough to allow your body and mind to connect in the deepest way" [83] and articulates rest as resistance against white supremacy and capitalism, rooting her work in the inspiration of, and in conversation with, ancestral wisdom, Black Liberation and Womanist theologies, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, maroon histories, and Afrofuturism. Hersey asks the reader to make space to imagine, to envision possibilities beyond capitalist grind culture, to claim the divine and inherent right to rest and be at leisure, to interrogate what might be possible when we envision socially just futures from a position of well restedness and deep connection to embodied wisdom and spirit. I am grateful for this book, will be grappling with it ongoingly, & recommend it wholeheartedly.
<i>Content warnings:</i> slavery, racism, sexism, death of a parent, grief
<i>Content warnings:</i> slavery, racism, sexism, death of a parent, grief
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Sexism, Death of parent, and Grief
leweylibrary's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Before even finishing this book, I posted on my Instagram story that "not to be dramatic, but this book is life changing" and it really is. Like the book says, no one has ever given me permission to rest. No one has told me that I deserve to rest, that I am already doing enough or even too much.
Definitely do not go into this book expecting quick, easy tips and tricks, but do go into it ready to have your entire way of thinking and going about life altered for the better. Making the change in a world that's so against rest will be immensely difficult, but the author is living proof that it's worth it. Now, brb while I go buy a nap mat of some sort for my office ✌️
Definitely do not go into this book expecting quick, easy tips and tricks, but do go into it ready to have your entire way of thinking and going about life altered for the better. Making the change in a world that's so against rest will be immensely difficult, but the author is living proof that it's worth it. Now, brb while I go buy a nap mat of some sort for my office ✌️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Classism, Racism, Colonisation, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Addiction
Minor: Police brutality
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