In 2023, I set a aim to complete one guide per week. I’m aiming to hearken to half-hour of an audiobook per day (whereas cooking, cleansing, and/or driving) and learn 10 minutes of a guide. By doing this, I hope to pretty simply have the ability to end one guide per week.
I form of fell off this plan for the previous two months whereas I launched my very own guide… however I’m excited to get again to much more studying within the coming weeks and months — and we’ll see if I could make up for my studying hiatus and nonetheless finish the yr ending 52 books!
You may comply with alongside on GoodReads to see what I’m studying, what books I end, and the star score I give every of them.
E book #5: Carnegie’s Maid
This was a quiet however partaking story. As in, it didn’t really feel like there have been all these loopy subplots taking place or that the novel took a bunch of twists and turns, however the easy story drew me in.
For some cause, it jogged my memory of The Final Bookshop in London. It was a uncomplicated storyline and but it saved me listening and made me suppose.
It’s a historic fiction guide that tries to reply the query of who may have impressed the philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. I liked studying extra about this time interval in historical past and likewise considering what it will be wish to be a maid. I believed it was fascinating to listen to the conversations the maids and home workers had amongst each other and the way they’d such insider data.
It was my first time to hearken to/learn a guide by this writer and I instantly went and put a few of her different titles on maintain.
Verdict: 4 stars
E book #5: Courageous Sufficient to Be Damaged: Embrace Your Ache and Uncover Hope and Therapeutic
I learn a pre-release copy of this guide in preparation for having the writer on my podcast. I actually liked attending to know Toni somewhat via our podcast interview and immediately fell in love together with her honesty and her hilarious persona.
I’ll say that I feel that she’s a greater speaker than a author proper now (that is additionally her first guide, although, and in the event you’ve been round right here for awhile you know the way a lot I realized from doing issues all fallacious with my first guide!). I felt like this guide may have been tightened up some and I’d have liked extra depth in different areas (that mentioned, I had a pre-release copy and it had some typos in it, so it’s potential the ultimate model was somewhat tighter). I additionally felt a few of her exegesis of Scripture of some areas was somewhat weak or theologically inaccurate.
However total, I appreciated her vulnerability and her willingness to share the struggles and heartbreak she’s gone via and realized from. I additionally liked how she talked about what we don’t heal from, will leak out from us in a dysfunctional method and negatively impression all these round us.
One of many sections within the guide that I felt was particularly helpful was when she talked about learn how to discover a good therapist/counselor. I typically hear from individuals asking for suggestions on learn how to go about finding somebody who’s strong and going to actually assist them course of via issues properly. Toni’s perception and options had been unbelievable and really useful. She additionally has some very sensible sources behind the guide.
Verdict: 3 stars
