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kml6n8's review against another edition
I really like the message behind the book, but it was such a chore to listen to it. The same general statements were said over and over again with just the slightest change in words utilized and sentence structure. I just wanted more. It felt like the subject was just lightly touched on for how much the author wrote, and how much the author repeated herself. Can you actually talk about your points instead of regurgitating the same stuff? Disappointing and frustrating. To the DNF shelf.
annelihghh's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Classism, Death, Colonisation, Racism, Death of parent, and Grief
chasinash's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
534534564587654323456789's review against another edition
This is the most repetitive book I’ve ever read (listened to), so the audiobook helped a lot and I got to hear the author’s work in her own voice. Also the writing style was super religious, not in the sense that the author is religious herself (which is also true), but in the same manner that how language is used in relation to religious purposes, for instance the usage of certain words, a certain sentence structure, and of course the same repetitiveNESS!
It’s great that this book was written with black Americans in mind, I’m all for making the dominant group read/watch/listen to stuff that weren’t created for them just as how marginalised ppl were implicitly forced to comprehend, relate to, and empathise with white and cishet media. Though I don’t know if that’s a little distancing for black Africans?
I found money in the hardcover copy, it was super fun theorising how it ended up here, so that’s pretty rad. (April 2024 edit: now I think putting money in library books is a pretty good way to ‘give back to community’.)
It’s great that this book was written with black Americans in mind, I’m all for making the dominant group read/watch/listen to stuff that weren’t created for them just as how marginalised ppl were implicitly forced to comprehend, relate to, and empathise with white and cishet media. Though I don’t know if that’s a little distancing for black Africans?
I found money in the hardcover copy, it was super fun theorising how it ended up here, so that’s pretty rad. (April 2024 edit: now I think putting money in library books is a pretty good way to ‘give back to community’.)
literallymeggs's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
kjersa's review against another edition
5.0
Rest is the only way that you can dream, dreaming is the only way you can realize your life is worth more than the work it does, realizing is the first step in resistance. We deserve more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the_eucologist's review against another edition
3.0
A clarion call to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, I like it as a manifesto, but would've liked more to chew on. The central idea is important enough to bear repeating and to stress to co-strugglers, but the telling leaves much to be desired. While I appreciated the references to the author's family, her life struggles, and her theoretical (and theological lineage), I was hoping for a stronger presentation of the family and family practices as an archive.
What is presented here is generous, generative, thought-provoking, and revolutionary, the kind of text that performs that kind of magic that (re)orients us to our bodies, our minds, our responsibilities, and the world, doing so in just over two-hundred pages. While I would have LOVED a similar treatment in a form more closely resembling anthology, Rest Is Resistance decisively reclaims the text as a technology of leisure and the manifesto as a mouthpiece of the soul. Hear ye, hear ye.
What is presented here is generous, generative, thought-provoking, and revolutionary, the kind of text that performs that kind of magic that (re)orients us to our bodies, our minds, our responsibilities, and the world, doing so in just over two-hundred pages. While I would have LOVED a similar treatment in a form more closely resembling anthology, Rest Is Resistance decisively reclaims the text as a technology of leisure and the manifesto as a mouthpiece of the soul. Hear ye, hear ye.