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powersln's review against another edition
4.0
As someone who (like many) falls into the category of feeling like I always need to be doing “something productive”, I very much appreciated Rest is Resistance as a reminder that it is as (if not more) important to rest. Tricia Hersey does a great job weaving in historical context and personal stories to help ground her call to action around taking time to step away from the day to day grind, social media, etc. to reflect, meditate and rest. I deducted a star because the text does become a bit redundant at times.
jeaniegreenie's review against another edition
2.0
I think that there are a lot of great moments to learn in this book, but I feel like it ended up being to idealistic and painfully repetitive. I think the jist of this book could be gathered within the first 30 minutes to an hour of the audiobook. The author is very pleasant to listen to, but I feel like most people would be pleasant to listen to if they delivered a speech in a sermon-like, idealistic way. This is another major issue I had with this book. Everything is very Christian-centric, even though the author claims to want this message of rest to be delivered secularly. She also loses credibility on her message of secularism when she talks about accepting to let the chips fall where they will to regain rest, and have "faith" this will be good essentially. Also a lot of credibility is lost with such a Christian-centric narrative when Christianity in America is such a major proponent of capitalism that has robbed us of our ability to rest. I also was not a fan of the author creating this narrative that taking time to rest is not a privilege, while also talking about taking a 30 day sabbatical in the same book. Sure, she did provide ways to take short amounts of rest in our everyday, which I appreciated, but I feel overall she has a very unrealistic and inaccessible message for the modern world, as sad as that may be. Idk, maybe I'm too jaded by the state of the world, but I found this manifesto to be lacking any grounding in reality. But, again, there are some tidbits of learning and reflection to gain from this, I was just overall disappointed in what I thought would be a top read for me this year. Sadly, it may end up being one of my lower rated reads this year.
bridgetdeveney's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.0
jadepfaefflin's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
naimar's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
The first half of this felt slow and a bit repetitive, but I also recognize that the mantra-like style was probably purposeful. I really liked the second half and it had more of an impact on me