cgnycdr 's review for:

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

3.0

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This was okay. Some of the essays were very interesting and I related to their stories. The editors were a bit heavy handed in their editing for some of them though, and suddenly between one paragraph and the next there was no transition yet a wild leap into something unrelated. I did find myself feeling bored with some of the essays and I would check to see how many more pages were left until the next essay to decide if I'll stick it out or skip to the next one. I pushed through to read this as part of a book club discussion I'll participate in, but had it not been for my sense of obligation for that I wouldn't have finished this book. I ended up listening to part of it on audio and the essays are read by their authors which I thought was pretty great.