Brittany Joiner

I absolutely loved this. For a biography it was a real page turner. You just kept reading and wanting to know what was going to happen next! It was also interesting just seeing what was “normal” for women from the 30s-60s in the US. Sad. But made me happy to learn about progress they fought for and seeing women be strong in the midst of that and push for growth.

I honestly just had trouble keeping track of the characters. I did like the story though

this was beautiful. I don’t even generally like to read fiction books and I couldn’t put this one down. Found myself reading for hours at a time, super into the story and wondering what was going to happen next. Also made me think about some things, so that’s always a plus.

this was really good! Very actionable.

Had a few good tips for people who are remote working and mentioned some tools I hadn't heard of before. I might recommend if you're not at all familiar with remote work. A few things I didn't like .... There were a couple things I really disagreed with - like taking uncomfortable conversations to a #pillow-fight channel on slack after unsuccessfully discussing one one one. A lot of things were repeated multiple times. It's incredibly repetitive. I feel like I could basically get the same amount of info by just googling a few articles and studies about remote working.

Although I didn't relate to a lot of it or agree with all the advice, still some good stories and gems in here.

Still kinda wrestling with how I feel about all of this and what I agree with and don't agree with, but it was super thought provoking and very well written.

Basically whole book can be summed up in : work hard. A lot of unnecessary words and repetition which might be helpful for some people but wasn't for me. Also felt like each story was just people bragging about how hard they work and never take a break, which I've come to learn isn't healthy and honestly isn't even really the way to success. This book is just also not super well written. Daymond is a fantastic businessman but his writing style isn't my fav.

Maybe I'm just used to hearing about this kind of stuff, but I feel like this didn't really say anything new or profound. I kept hanging with it to see if it would get better, but was a little disappointed. The gist is exactly the title - have simple rules. Use rules to make decisions, and only have a few of them. The book went through a lot of examples and stories so if you're into that kind of stuff maybe you'd enjoy it more than me. Loved the concept, just felt like it could have been a blog post instead of a whole book

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. A friend recommended it to me, and I'm surprised it took me this long to find it as I'm a huge personal finance nerd and I love to read books about making better financial decisions. This was such an amazing book with a really down to earth way to look at money. There's no telling you specific things to do, but rather specific ways to think about money and decide what you need to do, which is fantastic. There's also a lot of discussion about the importance of talking about money and having more conversations about personal finance, which I agree is really important and I'm glad Chelsea is pointing this out! Totally recommend this book.

Not bad advice, but a lot of it is common sense and stuff you can find on Pinterest. That being said, still some good tips and organized in a good way to tackle all the advice rather being overwhelmed with a lot of ideas for reducing spend.

Loved this book. A lot of words but it has a lot of good examples of the principles it teaches. My main takeaway was that you should always be stretching yourself and always learning, and when things get easy you've got to make them harder.

SO AMAZING. Going to be sharing it with my company and trying to get them all to read it.

THIS WAS SO GOOD. I love Lauren Graham and I was worried I was going to be disappointed because I had high expectations. This was amazing. As a big fan of Parenthood and Gilmore Girls, I especially appreciated all the references and the trip down memory lane as she talked about those shows. There's also a lot of good quotes and life advice in here. Great book, and I definitely heard Lorelei's voice in my head as I read it.

Part of it might have been the play format, but the story didn't grab me like the other books. Took a while to really get into, and the protagonist's inner conflict wasn't really a big enough deal to me to feel connected to the story. Also didn't at all feel like a natural transition from the last Harry Potter stories. After a while the story got more interesting, and it did at least hold my attention but I wouldn't recommend it.

Excellent advice and tips in here. Very practical takeaways and helps you think through a lot of sides and facets of giving and receiving feedback

Good book, but went into a lot of detail about specific things and repeated itself some. I'd rather have read a short blog post about it... which is ironically what the book is about 😂 (our short attention spans)

I think this might be the best book I've read in all of 2017. Lots of practical thoughts on life and how those apply to work. So many good takeaways that I don't even know where to start in implementing. I think this could easily be a book that I go through several times, and focus on pieces of it at a time.

Also fantastic advice for running a business. And it was cool to see how all those things were based on how we should live our lives.

Thought this was going to be more of a scientific discussion about how male and female brains are different. Not really. Also, meant for teenagers.

This will forever be my favorite personal finance book. I read it in college and it was really helpful and has shaped a lot of my personal finance philosophy, and I just read it again and picked up even more than I did the first time and actually grasped a lot of the things Ramit talks about with investing. Thinking I'm going to make it a regular thing to read this book once every few years!

I love this and have read multiple times. Great life lessons and a reminder to live life to its fullest because you never know how long it will be.