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This is the first book I've read by this author and her writing style just doesn't gel with me. Plus she seems obsessed with the number 7.
I received this book for Christmas. I’m so glad I read it right away because it gave me the chance to reflect on advent and Christmas this year and contemplate changes j would like to make next year.
As a quick holiday gift or book to curl up with one weekend before December with Hatmaker’s quips and easy style, great choice and worth more stars. If looking for Hatmaker’s best, I don’t think it’s here. Reads like her blog rather than fresh in depth book. Supposed to be take off her book 7, but just go read 7...
inspired by her book 7, this slim volume focuses on ways to simplify the season down to what’s truly important + i love the other-centeredness of the ideas here; taking the attention off ourselves in order to show generosity and bless someone(s) else + thoughtful, encouraging, intentional, challenging, convicting (and its pretty!)🎁“If enough of us decided to share, we would unleash a torrent of justice to sweep away disparity, extreme poverty, and hopelessness.The world is watching. Our kids are...
A quick read with some great thoughts of how to be more generous and more focused on the real reasons for the Christmas season.
3.5 stars 7 Days of Christmas is a book by Jen Hatmaker that focuses on a season of generosity. It shows you 7 areas you can tweak to make your holiday more meaningful. I've not read her original book (7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess) but after reading this, I think I'd like to. It seems really interesting.All 7 things Jen talks about in this book aren't relatable, but I still feel like I got something out of it. Overall, I liked this one!
2.5 - I was excited to pick this book off the new book shelf at the local library mid-December and thought it would make a good read for the seven days between Christmas and New Years, but I think you are supposed to read it between Thanksgiving and Christmas maybe? Early in the book it seems like there is some kind of timing expectation I just couldn’t quite figure out. The substance, as other reviews have said isn’t new. It feels like parts are grabbed out of the original 7 (I did really like
3.5 starsAs other reviewers have said, this book isn’t really offering any new advice. It kind of read like a fancy, extended edition of a buzzfeed list/article. It was a gentle and refreshing reminder of what’s important as we head into the holiday season.
This is a little book that packs a big punch!!! So endearing, smart, funny, slightly sarcastic, basically so Jen Hatmaker! I have come to adore this lovely human. She is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale air period of life. JH points out 7 areas of life that we can all simplify to become more generous; more generous with our time, treasures, and talents! Her advice is always practical and simple yet still makes me think and ponder! I am glad I ended my 2019 reading with this lovely lit...
I have never felt like more of a Grinch than I did listening to this book. It would have been a DNF, except I need the body count for my reading challenge.I think the main issue that kept me from liking this book is not being the target audience. Very narrowly aimed towards affluent, or at least comfortable, Americans with no concept (apparently), of not shopping or living excessively. While I do fall into the comfortable category, I didn't grow up with overabundance or with the mindset of exces...
Oh, I was pretty bummed that I didn’t enjoy this one more. Jen is one of my favorites, but I felt this book was surfacey, disjointed, and thrown together. Nothing like her original 7 book, which I loved!
Oh, Jen Hatmaker. What a disservice you did to your fans. Why didn't you read this book yourself? I'm so disappointed! I enjoyed the other books I heard that you wrote and read, but this one was a complete snooze. I agree with everything that you have to say in this, but I just couldn't get into Rebecca Gallagher reading your words. I only stuck with it because of its brevity. Hoping you take heed and read the next one.
This book had some good ideas and reminders.
I absolutely loved 7 and with my new-found desire to consume less and be a better steward of the earth, I have been extremely anxious about the holiday season coming up. I think there were some great ideas in this book and it's definitely a good reminder of how we should approach this season, but the format felt disjointed and I would have liked more specific examples and reflections of how Jen has implemented these things now many years after the original 7 challenge.
I had never read anything by Jen Hatmaker, and after this book will probably not pick up another one. The subtitle, A Season of Generosity, was not really what this book was about. It was more about rethinking how you have been duped by the messages of the culture. Since I don't tend to thoughtlessly follow culture in the first place, the book didn't supply much that was useful to me. I didn't find information that was anything that wasn't much of what I have read in other media sources except t...
I loved this book more after discussing with my online book club. Perhaps it’s that, in South Africa, most of us are content (happy even) with just having food and clothes that the excesses referred to don’t affect very many of us. And when we do have plenty, we realise that on the nearest corner, there’s a beggar who could use that sweatshirt today rather than it laying unused in a cupboard.The main theme was give your best not stuff you should really throw out. One takeaway for me - I would li...
I love Christmas and like Jen Hatmaker. This book was a huge letdown as it mainly consists of Bible versus and watered down experiences from her previous book 7.
Advent/ Christmas 2019! I feel like the book would have been better had I already read 7. I am also a little bummed that this book had nothing to do with 7 days (like the title implies). It is a really entertaining and beautiful book. It also really got me thinking about how I need to be stretched as a Christian. As a person who loves gifts and gift-giving, I thought I was generous. Really, I am only generous to people it is easy to be generous to. I am stingy with my time and effort. I am sting...
Easy to read, written with a lot of humor. It sounds like this book is a follow up of a previously written book by the same author which addresses the excesses of our society. Although I agree with the idea of minimizing and reducing our footprint, some of the author's suggestions would not really be workable for many people (such as gardening or composting). I am interested in pursuing organizations that help people with resources that the author points out, but wish more mention of them had be...
Disclosure: I received an advanced readers copy of this book through the Amazon Vine program.This is my first time reading a book by Jen Hatmaker. I noticed in a great majority of the reviews that this was a rehash of her original 7 book. Knowing this, & never having read the first book, I decided to get this as it would all be new to me. What I didn't realize was that this is a religious book. Obviously if you are familiar with the author, you'd already know this, but again, I never heard of he...