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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough

5 reviews

spookyfaith's review

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dark funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

I hate giving half ratings or quarter ratings but I was truly on the fence with this one. Some parts I was rolling my eyes over and other times I was highlighting the entire page. 
The stories are all captivating and interesting but I wasn’t a fan of her writing style and voice. 
I really wanted to like this more than I did tbh 
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elwh's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

An excellent read about someone who’s lived so many lives. Shocking, funny, beautiful, and sad, often at the same time. It’s a good read, and worth it, but it’s hard. It took me a long while to get through because of that. The essays categorize sections of Hough’s life nicely, if a bit messily, which can make it hard to follow at points. But I liked the deep tangents-within-tangents, and the way things were connected.
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nerdy_yinzer's review

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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pinkpotayto's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This book is so important and special. Lauren is an amazing writer, with such a genuinely honest voice telling her story. it's not sugar coated and it's not dressed up either. and that's the insane part because the stories she tells are so fucked up and real. We all know that this country isn't to be trusted much less the people running it, but hearing something like this first hand is really enlightening. 
Most of us are just trying to find our own unique (possibly fucked up) ways to survive. That's what her essays have shown me. As a queer woman also struggling to survive, Id like to thank Lauren for sharing her story. All we want to be is heard, and understood, and I believe by sharing something so personal with the world, that might be what she wished for as well.

(I added content warnings, but like, it's someone's life and I don't really think it can be categorized into boxes but I added the ones I think could be genuinely triggering. Just keep an open mind)
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quassibly's review

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challenging emotional fast-paced

5.0

Lauren Hough and I share almost nothing in background or experience, but her circular thought process with it's frequent digressions that seem unrelated until she brings it all back around to connect in a way that feels entirely organic.

Separately, her essays each impart in insight into the world at large, seen through the lens of Hough's experiences -- being told that she can only be good if she conforms to a standard, being hurt by people who tell her it's for her own good, and finding herself powerless in a world where poverty is the ultimate shame.  Taken together, they tell the story of a woman who fighting to figure out how to create her own standards with only her anger and her wit to arm her.
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