Book Reviews & Recommendations
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Lysa TerKeurst’s Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are is a compassionate, faith-centered guide for anyone struggling to love well without sacrificing their peace. Known for her bestselling book It’s Not Supposed […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) Kyle Prue’s How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego is as bold and unapologetic as its title suggests. Marketed as a quick-witted handbook for calling out toxic masculinity, it promises over a […]
In Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, Cal Newport takes aim at one of the defining ailments of our era: the cult of busyness. Known for his bestselling books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, Newport has built a career […]
In The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, journalist Michael Easter makes a bold argument: our modern comfort is killing us slowly. With our climate-controlled homes, instant food delivery, and digital conveniences, we have eliminated nearly every […]
If you have ever wondered why so many people feel unwell in a world overflowing with medical breakthroughs, The Myth of Normal will feel like a cold splash of water. Gabor Maté, writing with his son Daniel Maté, argues that suffering is […]
Catherine Gildiner’s Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery is a deeply moving and unforgettable exploration of resilience, trauma, and the transformative power of therapy. With over 60,000 Goodreads ratings and a stunning 4.45 average, this book […]
Parenting books come and go, each promising a gentler, wiser, more effective way to raise resilient children. Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction by Dr. Becky Kennedy has quickly become one of the most talked-about parenting […]
If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking you learned a lot of facts but almost nothing about the person, David Brooks wants a word. How to Know a Person is his practical field guide to paying deep attention, asking better […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.1/5) Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things asks a deceptively simple question: what if progress is less about the gift you were born with and more about the character you build, the scaffolds you use, and […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.0/5) Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts aims straight at a modern struggle that almost everyone recognizes: the runaway loop of anxious, cynical, and self-defeating thoughts. Writing from an openly Christian perspective, Allen […]