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A review by laurenisallbooked
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays by Megan Stielstra
5.0
I wanted to hug this book at the end because it had been hugging me the whole time. Stielstra can write.
I adored all of the Chicago references, but what I loved most was how personal this felt. She really put her heart in this book and bared a lot of fears for the world to see. That cannot be easy, but I cannot imagine how many people that's saved. This book talks a lot about kindness and life rafts and how to be what Mr. Rodgers calls "helpers," and I think it's fitting to call this a how-to manual for being a helper and encouraging people to kick off their shoes and dance in a parking lot.
Stielstra repeats phrases throughout the book a lot and I LOVED that technique because that's 100% how people talk and think. We use the same phrases regularly when we're talking, and it was so incredibly human to read that in this essay collection.
An absolutely incredible book that I highly recommend.
I adored all of the Chicago references, but what I loved most was how personal this felt. She really put her heart in this book and bared a lot of fears for the world to see. That cannot be easy, but I cannot imagine how many people that's saved. This book talks a lot about kindness and life rafts and how to be what Mr. Rodgers calls "helpers," and I think it's fitting to call this a how-to manual for being a helper and encouraging people to kick off their shoes and dance in a parking lot.
Stielstra repeats phrases throughout the book a lot and I LOVED that technique because that's 100% how people talk and think. We use the same phrases regularly when we're talking, and it was so incredibly human to read that in this essay collection.
An absolutely incredible book that I highly recommend.