Shelsy

It was a good book, well written. But way longer than it needed to be. It felt like the author thought he had to create a manifesto and had something super important to say, but it's just a long story about a lot of normal people and a lot of deaths.

It was pretty basic and very simply written. It was also mostly about his business and work environment which wasn't very relevant for me. I wished he had spent more time talking about the practicalities and challenges of being nice on a day to day basis. But, it was still motivating as an overall idea and I'll be looking for some other books on the topic. 

I really wanted to like this book. I heard him on a podcast and was intrigued. But this book was so boring and so dense it was hard to get through, with no discernable payoff. 

I went through an emotional roller coaster reading this book. First hopeful, then depressed, then hopeful again... He presented arguments in a way that kind of kept you guessing what the take away was supposed to be. It was engaging and fascinating. It changed the way I think about a lot of things that I've always taken for granted. And in the end he gives practical advice. How should an ordinary person take and use all this information? It's a very insightful book, I highly recommend. 

It is a compelling story, but such an unjust one that I found it difficult to read. 

For many people the bible tells a story of a god that is completely incomprehensible. This book finally looks at these issues head on, starting with the God-ordained mass genocide of the Canaanites. 
Every chapter surprised me, offered much needed clarity, and usually left me with more questions than answers. That also happens to be the point, that we should give up looking for answers, and instead be looking for questions. And I was surprised that this approach actually helped me relax and gently nudged me toward reconsidering my failing faith. 

That is another strength of this book: it is for everyone. It is EQUALLY applicable, and even necessary, for christians, atheists, evangelicals, agnostics, whoever. It takes everything we THINK we know and gently (and humorously) invites us to kindly throw it out and start over, while maybe standing on our heads and squinting, to get a new perspective.

I adored this book and intend to read more by this author, and also maybe actually pick up my Bible again as well.

I think this book will help a lot of people. If you are feeling burned out or have no idea of who you are or what you want, READ THIS BOOK.

I have been on a journey for several years trying to peel back the layers of obligations and false personas I've taken on. I've read several of the books cited in this work. As such, I didn't find a lot of the information in this book to be new, but it helped me believe that I'm on the right track. The exercises she provides are powerful. 

I wish she would have addressed more of the challenges that arise when you start to drop the idea of owing others. There were many times I would read something and think, “okay, but what about...?” Some concrete ideas for dealing with difficult situations would be helpful. 

If you have never before considered the possibility that you can live a life that's truly your own, READ THIS BOOK. You will be very glad you did.

This book was brilliant and should be required reading, particularly for white Americans. It is beautifully organized. Each chapter recounts horrors and tragedies, both ancient and modern, that strategically and systematically help the reader come to terms with the American caste system and how it affects every aspect of our lives. 

It was really slow. Very well researched and it contained a ton of important information, but I was expecting something more applicable. It lays out the information and expects the reader to come to their own conclusions. Which is fine, but I found reading it to be tedious and kind of hard to follow. 

I just felt like it was poorly written. Perhaps it was partly due to the formatting on the Kindle edition but the author seemed to jump around randomly. I was excited by the description of this book but I found that I didn't enjoy reading it.

It sounded really simple, just make sure each meal has foods from the following categories: fat, protein, fiber, and greens. But it didn't really go into what foods those categories actually include. After reading the book I'm still not completely sure what counts as a fiber. The whole book boiled down to just eat clean, avoid carbs, and limit fruit. It honestly didn't give me any real useful information. I am going to try the smoothies for breakfast, just to see what will happen, but otherwise I didn't find it useful.

This book is for everybody. It's written to women, but the information is equally applicable to men. My husband found this book and started reading it, then bought me my own copy. It opened our eyes to what is actually “normal,” and gave us a shared vocabulary for talking about our sexuality. It was vastly encouraging and also challenging.
The author does an excellent job of using science and studies and research to form her conclusions, and then giving examples and metaphors to describe and explain the science so that the reader can easily understand and apply it. And as a sex educator, she herself is an expert in the field, and has life experiences of her students to draw from. She's also completely nonjudgmental and erases the fears we all have of being weird or broken.

In short, this is an excellent book and it has implications that far outreach “just” sex. There are principles in this book that I can translate into every area of my life. I'm buying a copy for my sister, and I highly recommend it to anyone, and it's especially great for couples to read together.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I wasn't expecting much when I first started it. The teenage drama was kind of annoying, but it fore better. It was also a little predictable, but I expected that. But it was a good fun story, and even though I had an idea of what was going to happen at the end I wanted to keep reading, and I'm planning to read at least the next book in the series to find out what happens to Sammy and see how the series progresses. It was a fun easy read and I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed this book, even though it was a little bit of a different genre than I would usually choose. The book moved quickly and I liked Corred as a hero. He stood out as a hero but wasn't superhuman. I felt like it ended a bit abruptly, though. I expected the story to continue on for a bit longer, and I was left assuming that there will be a sequel.

Overall I liked it and I would read another book by this author. :-)

I liked this book a lot. It was very different from the Jane Austen I've gotten used to, but I definitely enjoyed it. I agree with someone who said that Jane Eyre might be the greatest literary heroine of all time. I will reread this regularly, for sure.

I got through the first 9 chapters (89 pages). It was boring, there's no discernible plot, just isolated random stories from her time living in Cross Creek. And because it was written in the 40s about a backwater Florida town, I just wasn't comfortable with the explicit racism of the time. 

I got to chapter two. I was hoping for a more radical take on Christianity, but the author is far too evangelical for my tastes. I am still too traumatized by the church to read an entire book full of “christian-ese,” no matter what her views are of women in the church. I also disagree fundamentally with her western interpretation of the gospel, so I decided that this is probably not the right book for me.

This book is exactly what I needed. As a former-but-not-so-sure-anymore deconstructing Christian, this book asks ask the questions I've been answering. And rather than giving unsatisfying answers, which is something the modern church seems to be very good at, this book devotes itself to getting me comfortable with the idea of being uncomfortable. It literally redefines the word “faith” without cheapening it or offering any excuses or explanations for God usually doesn't make any sense. That's actually the point. God doesn't make sense, can't possibly make sense, and it's crazy for us to try to make Him make sense. 

I appreciated the honesty in this book, the willingness to meet me right where I am, and the motivation to keep moving even when I have no idea where I'm headed.