“Your ability to ignore self-criticism and embrace feeling good about your successes will ripple out into your life…” That sounds good to me 😄

Ugh! “Study what you love and the rest will follow” is far too simplistic for me. I guess this book is thought-provoking but really, that‘s your advice to undergrads? I just don‘t think that‘s good enough to be honest.

“…chores in childhood is an essential contributor to success later in life…Chores matter a great deal” I thought this might be the case but hadn‘t read about it until now. It makes sense.

More than ready for this part. She could be right that some of this overparenting she‘s worried about is more widespread than I had thought. However I‘m not sure I‘m ready to throw everything out when it comes to parenting. Let‘s see what this section proposes…

This is actually not from the author but from Madeline Levine, a psychologist, who suggests we unwittingly cause harm when we “do for our kids what they can already do for themselves,” “do for our kids what they can almost do,” and when our parenting is “motivated by our own ego.”

Hmm I‘m finding this much less persuasive than I had hoped so far. I‘m 75 pages in and found the first section to be just ok. Let‘s see what the rest is like…

Know any good reading challenges for adults? I‘m doing a roundup post and am looking for things like Book Riot‘s Read Harder challenge or the Read Caribbean month http://bookofcinz.com/readcaribbean/. What else is out there besides the PopSugar one? #readingchallenge

Appreciated her acknowledgments to her teachers in Kansas public schools too: “Thank you to the English teachers…who told a child from a family of laborers that she was a writer who deserved to be heard…” She goes on to list them by name. We owe them a debt of gratitude for this book too.

This book was not at all what I expected. It was memoir and social commentary woven in with personal experience in a way I hadn‘t anticipated. But once I got used to her writing, I found it incredibly moving and a deeply worthwhile read. Highly recommended.

Forgot to add a review: overall I liked the practical approach and the way the advice was presented. I found this pretty helpful and look forward to using these techniques as often as I can 🤞🏽

This brought tears to my eyes…

I‘m 90 pages in and don‘t know what to say. I expected this to be a tough read but I still think I underestimated how bleak I would find it. Planning to finish but not sure I will have much to say after I do…

Finished this just now and loved it. Highly recommended!

“Perhaps that is how we should frame this question forever; rather than asking what is your favorite work, let‘s ask, what continues to pull you back?” I love this sentiment even though I am not by nature a re-reader.

One of the characters in Open Water is reading this book and now I‘ve got to read it next!

Overall this was a very eye-opening and infuriating listen. Packed full of examples of how women are not considered the norm and how this negatively impacts us (and everyone really). Very good read. Highly recommend it.

Got off on the wrong stop on the metro because I was so engrossed in this… loving the style.

Enjoying this so far…

This was a very moving read. I couldn‘t do this kind of work - or anything near it - and I have the utmost respect for those who do. Glad I finished this despite a lot of tears!

I keep reading this in public and then wondering why I‘m blubbering. The first half was alright but I must say the second half is really getting to me. Alright, I guess I will have to finish this at home! A good read though.

Enjoyed this a lot. One small issue: pretty sure no one should breathe in incense or other smoky things like that. I‘m not a medical professional or anything, but yuck! Otherwise I thought this was good and useful - and also funny ❤️

Forgot to post a review but I loved this. I returned it to the library and then promptly tried to get someone else to borrow it 😂. It didn‘t work but I‘m sure someone will pick it up. I hope more people read this book!

And now for something totally different from what I just finished…

This was very moving, even though it was very hard to read at points. Trigger warnings for sexual assault & violence, child abuse, and child murder. Her story is phenomenal as is her courage. It took guts to do what she did and even more guts to write about it. I‘ll be watching the rest of the adaptation soon & plan to read her second memoir when I get a little distance from this one.

She goes with her husband for marriage counseling and this is the rabbi‘s reaction after he hears their history together. At least someone finally had a reasonable response to what she went through instead of pretending everything was fine!

“I feel as if I have no physical refuge. What a curse it is to not feel safe in one‘s own body…” I am amazed at the courage it took to write all this, let alone live it. Trigger warnings for something I can‘t quite put into words: maybe the difficulty of seeking medical help for something others only think is in your head? And also TW for sexual assault and trauma in case you need a heads up.

This is so sad…

“The librarians always smile when they see me, silent encouragement in their eyes…I wish that I could [take books home], because I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I‘m convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable, if only I could have books all the time.”

Just started this…

This was a clear guide to the stages of moving into a UX role and I appreciated the overview. I don‘t know much about this area and I‘m glad I started here to get a general sense of what Zenobi views as the process (after she switched away from anthropology and being more academically focused).

Zenobi is actually quoting another author Herminia Ibarra here. This struck me as particularly insightful.

Just listened to this author being interviewed on NPR and she handled this delicate topic so well I thought. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975304605/inside-the-right-to-die-movement

This was engrossing and moving despite the craptastic way I read it (on my phone without any way to enlarge, ugh!). Very much lived up to its reputation.

I‘d much rather be reading this on paper but oh well. In good news, so far it has grabbed me and won‘t let go.

I‘ve somehow never read this so I‘m looking forward to it.

Ok this also gets mixed reviews on here. It sounds good to me though.

This looks interesting but gets low reviews on Litsy - hmm.

My TBR recommendations are here 🥳

This book is very moving. I highly recommend it if you are looking for something accessible for younger readers that explains some of the great tragedy of residential schools (in this case in Canada although similar histories exist in the US too).

Ok this seems do-able - either change your prompt or make the behavior easier to do

So far, this sounds good 🤞🏽

Finally starting this one …

Fascinating and worth the read I think. Didn‘t love the political interludes but was engrossed otherwise. Highly recommended if this seems like your thing.

I loved this book but I can‘t read the preview of his next one because then I‘ll want a copy immediately 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 #bookwormproblems

Oh no I have to know what Linus knows now and it‘s bedtime 🤦🏻‍♀️😅😅😅

Overall I loved this collection even though I felt like it ripped my heart out and stomped on it at certain points. A good read.

This was fun! Except the romance angles which were boring to be honest 🤷🏻‍♀️but the mystery was pretty fun 😄

Hmm… good so far… 😉

I‘m looking forward to reading this 😄