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A review by luluwoohoo
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
☀️☀️⛅
A challenging non-fiction which tries to tackle everything and ends up achieving very little for its efforts.
I struggled a lot with this book, as it seems to defy categorisation. It's not a memoir, nor is it self-help, but it's somehow both lumped together in a style that doesn't really suit me. I was initially thrilled by the concept of so many short chapters/essays but after the first part they began to feel incredibly disjointed and unfinished. A lot of important topics were hit on but not in enough depth to appreciate, and rarely did Doyle contribute anything new or interesting to those conversations. The memoir portions were more interesting but often verged on self-righteous and preachy. The 'message' of some chapters contradicted the message of others, so in the end I struggled to understand the overall point of the book itself.
Doyle's writing is nice and easy to follow despite the structure of the book making things more difficult. There are certainly some wonderful insights and quotes I could take away from it, and the mantra of listening to and knowing yourself is valuable, but overall I found it more of a chore to complete.
I'm sure plenty of people would get more from this than I have, but unfortunately this is not a book for me.
☀️☀️⛅
A challenging non-fiction which tries to tackle everything and ends up achieving very little for its efforts.
I struggled a lot with this book, as it seems to defy categorisation. It's not a memoir, nor is it self-help, but it's somehow both lumped together in a style that doesn't really suit me. I was initially thrilled by the concept of so many short chapters/essays but after the first part they began to feel incredibly disjointed and unfinished. A lot of important topics were hit on but not in enough depth to appreciate, and rarely did Doyle contribute anything new or interesting to those conversations. The memoir portions were more interesting but often verged on self-righteous and preachy. The 'message' of some chapters contradicted the message of others, so in the end I struggled to understand the overall point of the book itself.
Doyle's writing is nice and easy to follow despite the structure of the book making things more difficult. There are certainly some wonderful insights and quotes I could take away from it, and the mantra of listening to and knowing yourself is valuable, but overall I found it more of a chore to complete.
I'm sure plenty of people would get more from this than I have, but unfortunately this is not a book for me.
"Let's conjure up, from the depths of our souls:
The truest, most beautiful lives we can imagine.
The truest, most beautiful families we can fathom.
The truest, most beautiful world we can hope for.
Let's put it all on paper.
Let's look at what we've written and decide that these are not pipe dreams; these are our matching orders. They are the blueprints for our lives, our families, and the world.
May the invisible order become visible.
May our dreams become our plans."