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

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

January 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: girl wash your face, rachel hollis, Self-help

kella's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: girl wash your face, rachel hollis, Self-help ·
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I’m glad Rachel Hollis said she doesn’t read her book reviews anymore…

September 27, 2018 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: girl wash your face, rachel hollis

Caitlin_D's CBR10 Review No:100 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: girl wash your face, rachel hollis ·
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