Lana

BONRAD! BONRAD! BONRAD!

Every now and again I revisit The Four Agreements, especially when I feel a bit stagnant or conflicted in certain areas of my life. I am constantly re-reading it, and I think it offers valuable lessons that I'm still trying to implement myself.

If Deadpool wrote a self-help book this would be it, for sure. I think that the beginning started off a bit aggressive for my taste. If I took a shot for every time the word f*ck was used in the first quarter of this book, I'd be plastered by the time I got halfway through. But I did like it, and I think that there a handful of good takeaways from this book! I definitely liked the anecdotes, and towards the end I felt like I understood part of the reason this book was written a bit better. It felt more sentimental then.

I love the vibes of The Summer I Turned Pretty, but I just found the characters more annoying in the books than the show. But a lot of that is probably me forgetting they're all supposed to be in their mid-to-late teenage years. I forget that I was probably like that too.

I'd give this a 3.5 if that was an option.

While this book does mention a lot of good ideas, I don't think that they are particularly new. A good chunk of it is stuff that I feel like I've already thought before, but I do think it's been put to words wonderfully here. I've never really taken the time to read a feminist essay before, but I think this has been a good starting point, and I'm excited to read more!