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Somehow concise and deep. Like her style and short snips of stories to frame her topics. Some useful framings for hard conversations.
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I'm a somewhat sporadic, yet longtime listener to the Death, Sex, and Money podcast, and I think Anna Sale is a master of making hard things safe to talk about. So I was excited for the book. And it's...good. She recounts stories of people having difficult conversations and what they learned. But it's not a how-to, and you won't come away being able to do this any better, necessarily. I enjoyed the stories while I was reading them, but now that I've finished the book I don't think I could tell you one that I remember. And that's the rub. Reading Sale's summary of these conversations and quotes from the people involved is not the same as hearing them talk on the podcast. You miss having those voices right in your ear. You miss the emotion, the tone, the nuance in their voices. You miss hearing Sale actually ask the tough questions and wondering how on earth she does this so well. I did enjoy Sale's personal experiences that start off each chapter. That is something we don't get on the podcast.
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Great depth of analysis of the author's own life, finding larger themes for others to use as a blueprint for examining their own lives and relationships more deeply. Moving and lovely.
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Do you listen to podcasts? If so - you may have heard of the podcast Death, Sex and Money with Anna Sale. In the book Let’s Talk About Hard Things, Sale goes further into these topics - things that are hard to talk about but also so important. In addition to sections on these three topics, there are also sections on Family and Identity. In addition to share real people’s stories including often Sale’s own experiences, it also helps offer some phrases that can be useful in having these tough conversations in your own life.
I also really enjoyed some discussions that gave me new things to think about and some that validated things I’ve been thinking - like in the section on Sex, it was briefly touched on that rejection needs to be shown as a natural part of the dating process. Romance books and movies can put forward a harmful narrative by showing that someone can be “won back” with the right Grand Gesture (often public). As you may already know from my romance reviews - I take a lot of issue with this and prefer to see when conflict is resolved in a more meaningful way and a way that still respects if someone has said they aren’t interested.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the free ebook. I also got the audiobook from the library and really enjoyed listening.
I also really enjoyed some discussions that gave me new things to think about and some that validated things I’ve been thinking - like in the section on Sex, it was briefly touched on that rejection needs to be shown as a natural part of the dating process. Romance books and movies can put forward a harmful narrative by showing that someone can be “won back” with the right Grand Gesture (often public). As you may already know from my romance reviews - I take a lot of issue with this and prefer to see when conflict is resolved in a more meaningful way and a way that still respects if someone has said they aren’t interested.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the free ebook. I also got the audiobook from the library and really enjoyed listening.
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