Kristy Johnson

Prescient

Revisado: 04-09-25

Such an important read for every American in 2025. Read. Stay awake! Fight tyrann. Preserve democracy!!!

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Thank you for your service

Revisado: 04-09-25

Sadly, Trump was elected, and the authoritarian and racist agenda you predict is blosssoming. BUT, we are fighting back!!!

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I was healthy until a head injury! Eds and ptsd and TBI…

Revisado: 01-27-24

Loved how you came to a place of functioning again. I have had fits and starts. The grief is real. I hope I find cures too.

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Powerful. Prescient.

Revisado: 01-05-24

I pray that God would give strength and endurance and encouragement, and everything that Yousef needs to keep living a life that is necessarily challenging but also a unique place to speak love and truth.

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Love her writing, not as good as her first book

Revisado: 12-26-23

It wasn’t as clearly laid out and bursting from the pages as the first book, but maybe that’s because it was so challenging to get the words to come for the author. She says she was in a dry spell, and it’s good writing off what it is.

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Best book I’ve read all year

Revisado: 12-16-23

From word choice to the structure of each chapter to the reading itself, this book was delightful, poignant, and desperately-needed. I don’t often read books a second time through, but I might make an exception for this one.

I particularly resonated with the way that her brain works because mine is very similar. She draws connections between things. She is learning about life or the world around her, such as the habits of wolves, or bees, or how to practice polar swimming, as a means of treating inflammation. I am also a teacher, I also lost my voice for a period of time and was treated and found out that it was a symptom of psychology and not physiology directly. I felt like I was losing my voice in the world around me, and my voice in my own throat disappeared.

There is so much about this story, and this way of living that resonates with me and I have learned a lot, and I hope to continue sharing from my own wintering .

God bless!

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Important story

Revisado: 12-15-23

I really enjoyed the story, though, I didn’t think the writing or the presentation were the best. The reading had lots of pauses for intake of breath that I don’t think I noticed in other audiobooks. I read Lecrae’s “I am restored” during and it didn’t have any breathy intakes between words. I’m not sure why this was so noticeable or if it’s normal in other audiobooks, but that’s the only way that I read, and I’ve never noticed it before, and it really irritated me.

Other than that, I felt that the bias of the author, especially against religion, was far more than professional. That’s fine, it’s more of her memoir, but when she’s presenting so many important facts and such good data, it’s hard to accept and follow when, at one point, she will dive into facts, and at the next it will be pure opinion, and a lot of vitriol against the church.

In one chapter, she describes how the church was involved in everything from soup, kitchens and clothing drives and things like that too politics. In the next line, she says that they didn’t really help the peoples basic needs, which soup, kitchens, and clothing drives. Feels like it’s helping the peoples needs.

Her point is that praying about things was often a scapegoat for taking action against larger problems, but I feel like her personal opinions and intense emotions kind of water down the presentation of that point by causing her to slip into less than factual and clear at points.

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Honest. Articulate. Timely.

Revisado: 12-15-23

Lecrae is so articulate, and it’s a pleasure to have the book read by him as well! The issues he addresses are so timely even today.

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Super informative

Revisado: 06-03-23

As a teacher, I’m super grateful for all the history I never knew before. Important book!

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Quaint story but super preachy

Revisado: 12-17-22

The story lack subtly in a lot of areas. It’s super preachy. The theme of everybody being different and not being OK is great and one that I love, but every straight couple had something wrong with them, and only the gay couples were the good ones. Exaggerated.

There’s a whole moment where one character literally preaches at the audience for paragraph after paragraph…it’s a great story but over the top preachy.

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