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I enjoyed this book. I think there are a lot of factors to me liking this book, but the biggest one was that it was given to me by a friend during a somewhat rough time for me. I was worried about what I’m doing, where I’m working and why real life was feeling like this. She told me about something called The Fraud Police, and then ordered me a used copy of this book.
(This is where this review becomes more a blog entry than a book review, just FYI, friends.)
When I was reading it, that friend was on my mind the entire time, but especially when I got to the two small parts that mention The Fraud Police, which are basically imaginary police in your head that are telling you that someday, soon, someone is going to figure out you have no idea what you’re doing and call you out on it. Which really described where I am in my life right now.
I think another reason I enjoyed this book was because it was what I needed to hear right now. I’ve asked plenty of people for help (I’m living with family right now, I’ve used networks to get where I am, etc.), but I think asking people to see my struggle and see my emotion was something I didn’t feel like I was worthy of doing. But this book gave me more to contemplate in that regard.
I had a few issues with the formatting, since it was very much a manifesto and a self help book and a story combined but it wasn’t too terrible. I also had a problem with her using italics instead of just putting things in quotes. That really bugged me. But it wasn’t enough to make me put the book down, apparently.
I would definitely recommend sections of this book to people. The part where she talked about The Fraud Police was the most helpful/important to me, but I can see others taking significance from other sections of the book.
(This is where this review becomes more a blog entry than a book review, just FYI, friends.)
When I was reading it, that friend was on my mind the entire time, but especially when I got to the two small parts that mention The Fraud Police, which are basically imaginary police in your head that are telling you that someday, soon, someone is going to figure out you have no idea what you’re doing and call you out on it. Which really described where I am in my life right now.
I think another reason I enjoyed this book was because it was what I needed to hear right now. I’ve asked plenty of people for help (I’m living with family right now, I’ve used networks to get where I am, etc.), but I think asking people to see my struggle and see my emotion was something I didn’t feel like I was worthy of doing. But this book gave me more to contemplate in that regard.
I had a few issues with the formatting, since it was very much a manifesto and a self help book and a story combined but it wasn’t too terrible. I also had a problem with her using italics instead of just putting things in quotes. That really bugged me. But it wasn’t enough to make me put the book down, apparently.
I would definitely recommend sections of this book to people. The part where she talked about The Fraud Police was the most helpful/important to me, but I can see others taking significance from other sections of the book.