Glennon Doyle

A friend gifted me this audiobook a long while ago, and I put it off for a variety of reasons (procrastination, lack of motivation, lazy excuses) until I began working toward a reading goal at the beginning of 2022. Actually, I ordered the hardcover because I remembered it had been recommended to me, forgetting altogether that I owned the audiobook. Sigh.

While a few of Glennon’s ideas and attitudes left me rolling my eyes, overall this was a truly helpful book with lots of lessons universal enough to be applied to anyone’s life and circumstances. If you’re considering reading this, there’s probably a reason for that, so you should. Whether it will prompt you to make major life changes or just to make small, bolder choices amid the mundane, you’re almost guaranteed to find something useful here.… (más)

Trying to decide between 3 and 4. I started excited and then couldn’t wait to finish. Some essays are full of ink. Many I left clean. This is Glennon’s story. It is powerful and she invites others to find the power in her story and our own.

Most of the essays are conversations between her and others-family members, friends, fans. And when she recalls those conversations she always speaks the wisest most eloquent words. She is always the wisdom in the room (except for Elizabeth Gilbert) and I found that very tiring.… (más)