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toxxicduck's Reviews (120)
informative
reflective
Inspiring like a boot to the face.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
I read this because I found it in my apartment lobby and I am a bibliophile :)
Other bad reviews probably explain better than I about why it is bad even from a Christian background. This is indeed someone condensing their blog into a… book…
My main complaint is the author taking scripture and regurgitating it in conveniently useful ways to get her point across, and it ultimately being a stretch or butchering the original message. I am of the more evolved Catholic upbringing, but still it is a little offensive to think the texts can be willynilly re-translated to suit suburban white soccer mom brains. Like, there is allegory, and then there is the allegory you make in your brain when you drink too much white wine… this book is that {;
I think there is a very plausible reason why it was found abandoned in an apartment building: It was… Uninvited… XD XD
Other bad reviews probably explain better than I about why it is bad even from a Christian background. This is indeed someone condensing their blog into a… book…
My main complaint is the author taking scripture and regurgitating it in conveniently useful ways to get her point across, and it ultimately being a stretch or butchering the original message. I am of the more evolved Catholic upbringing, but still it is a little offensive to think the texts can be willynilly re-translated to suit suburban white soccer mom brains. Like, there is allegory, and then there is the allegory you make in your brain when you drink too much white wine… this book is that {;
I think there is a very plausible reason why it was found abandoned in an apartment building: It was… Uninvited… XD XD
dark
funny
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
informative
fast-paced
Goldman’s ’memoir,’ which is nigh half the book, is very interesting, the most interesting take of the entire thing for me (especially the part about Kathy Bates), but the inserts mid-story were annoying and distracting (though I get it). All in all, I just want to read the original now. This abridgment feels very much like a patchwork quilt and I need the missing squares!
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
There are nice pearls of wisdom and warm fuzzies all around… I was indeed inspired by her headstand anecdote… but the privilege screams loud in this one…
Some of it I was a little offended by, because she groups ALL women into her successful white lady writer demographic. I scoffed at a lot of generalizations made and rolled my eyes at attempts at being relatable. She seems to think all working moms are in the same battle together, but she has a loving husband/father to her kids, and totally ignores that as if she has been doing all the work! I imagine the writer’s schedule and royalties help a lot! There was a facelift comment that was trying to be relatable that made me laugh, as if the facelift is just the natural course of aspiration for all of us. I may have said “ok boomer” to the book once. XD
Anyyyyyway, it’s a light-hearted cozy Sunday read that will make you all reminiscent and maybe want to call your mother. :) (in like 3 layers of irony, my mother gave me this book because I am a bibliophile, saying: “I just couldn’t get into it”)
Some of it I was a little offended by, because she groups ALL women into her successful white lady writer demographic. I scoffed at a lot of generalizations made and rolled my eyes at attempts at being relatable. She seems to think all working moms are in the same battle together, but she has a loving husband/father to her kids, and totally ignores that as if she has been doing all the work! I imagine the writer’s schedule and royalties help a lot! There was a facelift comment that was trying to be relatable that made me laugh, as if the facelift is just the natural course of aspiration for all of us. I may have said “ok boomer” to the book once. XD
Anyyyyyway, it’s a light-hearted cozy Sunday read that will make you all reminiscent and maybe want to call your mother. :) (in like 3 layers of irony, my mother gave me this book because I am a bibliophile, saying: “I just couldn’t get into it”)