I had heard of “The Body is Not an Apology” here and there in body -positivity spaces online, but the reason I read this book was Sonya Renee Taylor’s interview on Brené Brown’s podcast. “I am not simply proposing that you make peace with your body because your body shame is making you miserable. I …
I don’t think that I’m the target market for this book. I can see how it might be useful to some people – if you’re really unhappy and dissatisfied in your career, and not sure how to change things to make your career into something that you’re more satisfied with, I can see how this …
I really liked this book. It’s not the type of thing that I’m usually into – young adult novels written in verse? Not really my thing. But “Clap When You Land” was striking and heart-wrenching and it was all wrapped up in loss and finding out that your parent was so much more than the …
“So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo is a strong foundation to understanding the way that racism is manifested in the present-day, in the United States. I think that it makes a good introduction for white people who are aware that racism exists, but have not done extensive reading or development on …
Change can be really challenging at an individual level – it can be hard to get up earlier, or get more sleep, or work out frequently. That doesn’t compare to the mountain of challenge of organizational change, of getting groups of people who are entrenched in their ways, to change. This book was a really …
I disagree with Jordan Peterson about a lot of things. I believe that privilege is a real thing that impacts all of us, I believe that everyone should respect transgender and non-binary people’s gender identity and pronouns, I believe that the majority of differences between men and women are the result of how we are …
I might be the only woman in America who read Untamed during this pandemic and didn’t love it. I read it in July, actually, but didn’t get around to writing about it until now because I just didn’t have much to say about it. I didn’t hate it, exactly. It was okay. Nothing special, really. …
This book was sweet and wonderful and the perfect thing to take my mind off the fact that we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic and online school starts next week and everything feels uncertain. I loved the perspective this was written from – third person omniscent, which is pretty uncommon. The book …
I generally like Malcom Gladwell’s work – I find his books to be a good mix of theories applied to real world events and issues. One takeaway from this book is that people are very bad at telling if someone is lying to them, if that person seems like they’re telling the truth. The opposite …
I’ll be honest – I went into this book with preconceived notions of sliminess. The title is off-putting – it feels like a manual for social interactions, targeted at people who were raised by wolves. I love a podcast called “By The Book” – they read well-known self help books, then live by the self-help …