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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis
3.5 AVERAGE
1.19k reviews for:
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis
3.5 AVERAGE
This book was a recommended reading for an employee-based women empowerment group.
I made it only 16 minutes into the book before it became what I was predicting. A white women talking about something she has no education or expertise in (childhood development). I then paused to look up the author after some stigmatizing and incorrect mental health info and confirmed she has 0 experience to talk about it.
I also found out the multiple issues of alleged plagiarism and lack of accountability of owning up to it and other mistakes. Without a doubt, DNF. The world needs less white women writing books about topics they aren't experts in.
I made it only 16 minutes into the book before it became what I was predicting. A white women talking about something she has no education or expertise in (childhood development). I then paused to look up the author after some stigmatizing and incorrect mental health info and confirmed she has 0 experience to talk about it.
I also found out the multiple issues of alleged plagiarism and lack of accountability of owning up to it and other mistakes. Without a doubt, DNF. The world needs less white women writing books about topics they aren't experts in.
Lots of good suggestions but was a bit preachy sometimes and definitely comes from a place of privilege.
This book was very motivating and I recommend this to anyone who likes self help books that will motivate you to follow your dreams. This is my favorite book of hers that I have read so far.
Things I liked:
- Very motivating and inspiring. This book shows you that hopes and dreams can be attainable.
- She has some good advice in here. Am I going to follow everything that she suggests? No. But I really liked her advice about drinking more water, specifically writing out your goals with roadmaps on how to get there, and not being ashamed about being yourself.
Things I liked:
- Very motivating and inspiring. This book shows you that hopes and dreams can be attainable.
- She has some good advice in here. Am I going to follow everything that she suggests? No. But I really liked her advice about drinking more water, specifically writing out your goals with roadmaps on how to get there, and not being ashamed about being yourself.
I could see this being highly motivational for others. I'm just not apart of the target audience for this one as I've been lucky enough to overcome much of what is discussed here.
I was given an ARC of this book by the publisher in advance (though barely) of the pushed-up-twice publication date. I have not yet finished this book and I probably won't.
I enjoyed Girl, Wash Your Face. I thought Rachel's insights into her own life were helpful to me, quirky, and funny. I got a good amount of perception-shift from it, despite its flaws. It was a good memoir-meets-girl-power-up. I would still recommend it even.
However, Girl, Stop Apologizing is marketed as an active self-help book — with firm action steps, research to back up original claims, and a bit of personal insight thrown in for comedy and lighter reading. So far, it has none of these. It is pretty naval-gazing, and the notes at the back of the book are abysmal. I wish I could include a picture, because Rachel literally cited the *title of a book* by an author, out of context of the actual meaning of that title which is explained in the book, and that was one out of only a dozen references. (For those wondering, it's Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History," which I learned from Ms. Ulrich herself was less a commentary to encourage "bad" behavior, and more a commentary on the crappy job history does of noting the average women's efforts and often-still-historical pushings on society). If you read other actually good self-help books, there are footnotes, citations, and references all throughout.
Really, this article does a good job explaining my issues with GSA: https://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2019/march/girl-stop-apologizing-rachel-hollis-get-some-footnotes.html
Rachel, if you're going to write self-help books, you have to get beyond your own nose, and do some actual research. Use that Google search bar you tout so heavily as your education.
I enjoyed Girl, Wash Your Face. I thought Rachel's insights into her own life were helpful to me, quirky, and funny. I got a good amount of perception-shift from it, despite its flaws. It was a good memoir-meets-girl-power-up. I would still recommend it even.
However, Girl, Stop Apologizing is marketed as an active self-help book — with firm action steps, research to back up original claims, and a bit of personal insight thrown in for comedy and lighter reading. So far, it has none of these. It is pretty naval-gazing, and the notes at the back of the book are abysmal. I wish I could include a picture, because Rachel literally cited the *title of a book* by an author, out of context of the actual meaning of that title which is explained in the book, and that was one out of only a dozen references. (For those wondering, it's Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History," which I learned from Ms. Ulrich herself was less a commentary to encourage "bad" behavior, and more a commentary on the crappy job history does of noting the average women's efforts and often-still-historical pushings on society). If you read other actually good self-help books, there are footnotes, citations, and references all throughout.
Really, this article does a good job explaining my issues with GSA: https://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2019/march/girl-stop-apologizing-rachel-hollis-get-some-footnotes.html
Rachel, if you're going to write self-help books, you have to get beyond your own nose, and do some actual research. Use that Google search bar you tout so heavily as your education.
funny
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
No recuerdo mucho de este libro pero era audiolibro y me gustó mucho escucharlo.
I like the motivation behind this book - to encourage more people to dedicate their time to what they're passionate about and to relieve yourself from external pressure and expectations. However, I found her content to be kind of pretentious, unrelatable, and EXTREMELY white, so I didn't particularly enjoy this read.
I tried a few chapter of this book hoping it would be funny and helpful, and just couldn't get into it. The author came across as faux, boastful, and confusing in revealing what point she was trying to get across.
Eh, this one was just ok for me. I don't know if I had high expectations after Girl, Wash Your Face or that I simply couldn't relate as much to this material but it was one of those books where I found myself zoning out while reading. Ultimately, the only thing I "gained" was acknowledging that I can read an entire page of text without absorbing one bit of it.