101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Repetitive and nothing new

I enjoyed this at the beginning, but about 25% in I began noticing that each of the “essays” (which were more like listicles) were repeating the same content over and over again, verbatim. The general message of this book is that we're stuck in our own heads more often than we realize, and that we should make more of an effort to be grateful for what we have and live in the present.

That's it.

There's some decently insightful advice in here, it's just buried amongst a lot of clutter. This should have been '50 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think' because the further into the book you get, the more repetitive it gets. It's evident the author came up with the title first and wrote the content to fit the title. It's worth skimming through, but honestly once you get 2/3 through it you've read it all.

Will try this again - I had it on audio and it's probably a better read as a book.

This is a book that I think I will actually PURCHASE and flip through when I have a few moments. There are individual essays that I would like to revisit and digest more slowly than an audiobook allows for.

I really enjoyed this book at the start then it got boring for me around Essay 65 and was hard to finish. I've read alot of self-help books in the past so I could just be over this type of book. 

A huge list of positive but overwhelmingly shallow advice.
It seems like a fountain of lists for social media posts about self-help. It is useful, but sadly, not very insightful.

I can't hold this against Brianna, if someone came to me and said “Hey, I can take your collection of Medium articles and publish a book with them and you'll make good money from it”, I'd hop on board too.

That being said, these should have remained blog posts. These aren't even full essays, most of them are listicles and many are repetitive. This is a bed side table book that's meant to be read in bursts when you're feeling overwhelmed or need a little bit of a pep talk. If you try to read this like a novel, you're going to want to die a little.

Overall, I think the marketing for this book is the main issue.