Sarah Schumacher
This is a great place to start if you want to wrap your mind around operations and how to get work done effectively. Everything is well laid out and actionable.
This is a great place to start if you want to wrap your mind around operations and how to get work done effectively. Everything is well laid out and actionable.
Great story, fun characters, and excellent reader/voices for the audiobook. -1 star for the overused plot device and therefore extremely obvious/maddening protagonist bad decisions so common to kid’s books. It feels like cheap drama and it frustrates everyone listening, but this book is still very much worth reading/listening to, and makes a great family-friendly story for a roadtrip with kids.
Great story, fun characters, and excellent reader/voices for the audiobook. -1 star for the overused plot device and therefore extremely obvious/maddening protagonist bad decisions so common to kid’s books. It feels like cheap drama and it frustrates everyone listening, but this book is still very much worth reading/listening to, and makes a great family-friendly story for a roadtrip with kids.
An accounting of the emotional roller coaster that was becoming a Christian as a young adult, marrying a young Christian celebrity who was groomed to take over a problematic church, being forced to give up her dreams and agency as she loses herself in patriarchal ideals… then slowly finds her way out after 16 years.
While this tells some stories and the facts of things that happened, it’s more about what the entire journey felt like for her. I’d recommend this book to women who have trouble hearing their own voice or trusting themselves and their intuition, who need to know they are people too and deserve to have needs, particularly those who had or have religious backgrounds. She gets straight to the heart of some of the toxic expectations and consequences of living inside the American church.
An accounting of the emotional roller coaster that was becoming a Christian as a young adult, marrying a young Christian celebrity who was groomed to take over a problematic church, being forced to give up her dreams and agency as she loses herself in patriarchal ideals… then slowly finds her way out after 16 years.
While this tells some stories and the facts of things that happened, it’s more about what the entire journey felt like for her. I’d recommend this book to women who have trouble hearing their own voice or trusting themselves and their intuition, who need to know they are people too and deserve to have needs, particularly those who had or have religious backgrounds. She gets straight to the heart of some of the toxic expectations and consequences of living inside the American church.
A classic that’s worth the hype. Incredibly in-depth world building (maybe check out the appendix of terms when needed), with extensive religious and sociological elements that clearly draw from a wide-ranging knowledge of actual religious practices. But with some crazy out-there prophetic stuff, drug use, drama, betrayal, knife fights, wild tech, machines, planet/creatures… this book has been around for a while and there’s a reason it’s a classic. Just read it.
A classic that’s worth the hype. Incredibly in-depth world building (maybe check out the appendix of terms when needed), with extensive religious and sociological elements that clearly draw from a wide-ranging knowledge of actual religious practices. But with some crazy out-there prophetic stuff, drug use, drama, betrayal, knife fights, wild tech, machines, planet/creatures… this book has been around for a while and there’s a reason it’s a classic. Just read it.
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A classic that’s worth the hype. Incredibly in-depth world building (maybe check out the appendix of terms when needed), with extensive religious and sociological elements that clearly draw from a wide-ranging knowledge of actual religious practices. But with some crazy out-there prophetic stuff, drug use, drama, betrayal, knife fights, wild tech, machines, planet/creatures… this book has been around for a while and there’s a reason it’s a classic. Just read it.
A classic that’s worth the hype. Incredibly in-depth world building (maybe check out the appendix of terms when needed), with extensive religious and sociological elements that clearly draw from a wide-ranging knowledge of actual religious practices. But with some crazy out-there prophetic stuff, drug use, drama, betrayal, knife fights, wild tech, machines, planet/creatures… this book has been around for a while and there’s a reason it’s a classic. Just read it.
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An accounting of the emotional roller coaster that was becoming a Christian as a young adult, marrying a young Christian celebrity who was groomed to take over a problematic church, being forced to give up her dreams and agency as she loses herself in patriarchal ideals… then slowly finds her way out after 16 years.
While this tells some stories and the facts of things that happened, it’s more about what the entire journey felt like for her. I’d recommend this book to women who have trouble hearing their own voice or trusting themselves and their intuition, who need to know they are people too and deserve to have needs, particularly those who had or have religious backgrounds. She gets straight to the heart of some of the toxic expectations and consequences of living inside the American church.
An accounting of the emotional roller coaster that was becoming a Christian as a young adult, marrying a young Christian celebrity who was groomed to take over a problematic church, being forced to give up her dreams and agency as she loses herself in patriarchal ideals… then slowly finds her way out after 16 years.
While this tells some stories and the facts of things that happened, it’s more about what the entire journey felt like for her. I’d recommend this book to women who have trouble hearing their own voice or trusting themselves and their intuition, who need to know they are people too and deserve to have needs, particularly those who had or have religious backgrounds. She gets straight to the heart of some of the toxic expectations and consequences of living inside the American church.
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Great story, fun characters, and excellent reader/voices for the audiobook. -1 star for the overused plot device and therefore extremely obvious/maddening protagonist bad decisions so common to kid’s books. It feels like cheap drama and it frustrates everyone listening, but this book is still very much worth reading/listening to, and makes a great family-friendly story for a roadtrip with kids.
Great story, fun characters, and excellent reader/voices for the audiobook. -1 star for the overused plot device and therefore extremely obvious/maddening protagonist bad decisions so common to kid’s books. It feels like cheap drama and it frustrates everyone listening, but this book is still very much worth reading/listening to, and makes a great family-friendly story for a roadtrip with kids.
I want to read INTELLIGENT perspectives that differ from my own, and this is not that. I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said “that’s enough nonsense.”
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now create an atom bomb of that ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness. And that’s just the preface.
She appears to extrapolate her own (lackluster) experience with a single therapist into a massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “keeps them calm.” WTF. Where’s the rest of his statement? Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. She wants to cherry pick? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class. So there’s two, lady, your move. This is the level of intelligent discussion you might have with this book. So none.
Assuming she ever got around to making any valid points I wouldn’t have been able to take her seriously because of the rest of it. Even with the small amount I read she still managed to rant about lockdowns, claims of systemic racism, and climate ("But is climate anxiety—dare I ask—rational?")
Don’t waste your time with this rage bait. I should note this is coming from someone who does not agree with our helicopter parenting, intense child optimization culture. There are things I probably do agree with her on (emotions change, don’t make happiness the goal, for example), but even then I would expect actual valid sources for those conclusions. This book was written purely to massage the ego of a certain type of person, nothing more.
I want to read INTELLIGENT perspectives that differ from my own, and this is not that. I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said “that’s enough nonsense.”
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now create an atom bomb of that ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness. And that’s just the preface.
She appears to extrapolate her own (lackluster) experience with a single therapist into a massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “keeps them calm.” WTF. Where’s the rest of his statement? Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. She wants to cherry pick? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class. So there’s two, lady, your move. This is the level of intelligent discussion you might have with this book. So none.
Assuming she ever got around to making any valid points I wouldn’t have been able to take her seriously because of the rest of it. Even with the small amount I read she still managed to rant about lockdowns, claims of systemic racism, and climate ("But is climate anxiety—dare I ask—rational?")
Don’t waste your time with this rage bait. I should note this is coming from someone who does not agree with our helicopter parenting, intense child optimization culture. There are things I probably do agree with her on (emotions change, don’t make happiness the goal, for example), but even then I would expect actual valid sources for those conclusions. This book was written purely to massage the ego of a certain type of person, nothing more.
I have a vested interest in reading perspectives that differ from my own, and I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said that’s enough nonsense.
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now take ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness atom bomb from said Karen, and that’s just the preface.
She then extrapolates her hatred of therapy into one massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “makes them uncomfortable” or some absolute bullshit. Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. We like to cherry pick the one idiot (or take his entire statement out of context most likely) then? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class.
Again, one example, but all 100 or so pages I read were absolute nonsense. If she ever got around to making any valid points I can’t take her seriously because of the rest of it. Don’t waste your time with this rage exercise.
I have a vested interest in reading perspectives that differ from my own, and I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said that’s enough nonsense.
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now take ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness atom bomb from said Karen, and that’s just the preface.
She then extrapolates her hatred of therapy into one massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “makes them uncomfortable” or some absolute bullshit. Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. We like to cherry pick the one idiot (or take his entire statement out of context most likely) then? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class.
Again, one example, but all 100 or so pages I read were absolute nonsense. If she ever got around to making any valid points I can’t take her seriously because of the rest of it. Don’t waste your time with this rage exercise.
