Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are” – allegedly, at least.

Girl, Wash your Face by Rachel Hollis

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To reach a happier and more fulfilling life, Rachel Hollis advises you must unlearn the lies you’ve been telling yourself and push yourself beyond whatever limits you assume are there. I am not at all a self-help book reader, though I have plenty of friends who enjoy consume this genre in books and podcasts and social media posts. To each their own, I suppose. But listening to true crime podcasts while walking my dog made me start wondering if we’d ever run across a body […]

Danger Lurks Beneath the Surface

Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis

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I don’t listen to a lot of audio books. It’s not something I particularly enjoy; however, I am more compelled when the book is biographical (or somewhat biographical) and narrated by the author. Because I had listened to Girl, Wash Your Face read by Rachel Hollis, herself, when I saw Girl, Stop Apologizing available on my library app, I felt compelled to give it a whirl if for no other reason than to be able to have my own opinion on the pop culture/self-help phenomenon. Despite all attempts […]

Meh. (yes, that’s literally the best title I can come up with for this one)

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

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After reading Cannonballer Niki’s review of this book earlier this month, it cemented my decision to NOT read it. I had been wavering until that point; it kept being recommended to me as a “life changing read, like, omg”, but something about it never really sat right with me. Then I read Niki’s review, and it articulated & confirmed my hesitations, and I removed it from my Amazon ‘Save for later’ list (where it had been living for months). And then a bunch of women […]

Marginal to bad advice wrapped in a “You can do it/Tough Love” package

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

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I grabbed this audiobook from the library after internet algorithms kept pushing it at me.  I knew nothing about it, and thought with the title and the cover photo that it might be humor-centric self help.  After listening to it, I might have to re-evaluate some life choices to see why amazon thinks this is for me.  It starts off earnestly, as a lot of mommy-blog type advice does, but even in the introduction, she gets self-righteous and talks about the contempt she has for […]

I’m glad Rachel Hollis said she doesn’t read her book reviews anymore…

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I had multiple people recommend Rachel Hollis’s Girl Wash Your Face but it was not for me. It probably isn’t for your either unless you’re a wealthy white woman who is incredibly devout as well as a bit holier than thou. Hollis has artfully mastered the humble brag in Girl Wash Your Face and the whole book is congratulating herself on basically having it all while pretending that she struggles with the same struggles regular folk do and that No, Really she doesn’t have it all. I should note […]



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