Book Review

I have mixed feelings about this book. There are some good points in it. Some good enough that I am going to pass it along to someone I think it will be good for. Going over the good parts in this case would be more like a book report than a book review, so I won't be doing that. There are good things in this book. If it looks like something that would appeal to you, it is definitely worth a read. 

However despite giving it a pretty good rating I did have a few problems with it:

The book is very clearly written by a woman for women. She tries to avoid this fact by repeatedly saying that anyone can benefit from it, and denying that it is geared toward women. I found this distracting. I think she should have either owned that she was writing to a female audience or just let it be. 

The author has a tendency to have large quotes from other sources. I didn't find the first few to be overly relevant or helpful, and I found myself just skimming over them. I think a good portion of them could have been weeded out. She had plenty of good things of her own to say, she didn't need to waste space repeating other people's words.

Lastly, there are some exercises in the book that are supposed to help you think about a certain thing in a new way. They seem overly involved to me. Most of them seem like they might have a purpose, but in order to do them you would need to have a dedicated time to sit down and do them. But, the way they are presented in the book is more of a quick thing to do. I may try a few out sometime, but overall they don't seem to be as refined as they could be.