Book Review : Take Your Time & Hurry Up

Book Name: Take Your Time & Hurry Up
Author: Joey Kidney

Publisher: Penguin eBury Press

Genre: Non-Fiction 

Format: Paperback

Print length: 200 pages 

Rating: 4/5

Take Your Time & Hurry Up by Joey Kidney is an emotional and motivational self-help book that deals with most of human problems be it love, loneliness, success, failure and so on.


Book Blurb On Amazon


Have you ever felt lost or alone in your thoughts, feelings and experiences?

Take Your Time and Hurry Up continues Joey’s experiences as he leaves his early twenties and heads toward adulthood. This book appeals to anyone who is navigating ‘adulting’ without a compass or a map, and who is searching for a sense of belonging.

Joey gently encourages his audience to find comfort, mindfulness, guidance and connection. A clear theme is woven through each passage: a reminder to slow down. After all, what’s the rush.


Review


Take Your Time & Hurry Up is a non-fiction book that targets youngsters and early adulthood. In this book, readers will explore various topics, including Love, overthinking, finding a lover, sadness, missing someone, resolutions, etc.


The title might seem vague to many readers until they dive into the book. It reflects the idea of not comparing your journey with someone else's and taking your sweet time to grab what belongs to you. The author insists, "You are where you are supposed to be in the moment." It will allow readers to introspect their journey and understand how far they have come.


Apart from other self-help books, this book navigates readers through various problems they face in their twenties and early adulthood, like the sense of existential crisis, making readers feel confused and clueless about the next step in their lives. In this book, readers would come across topics that will enlighten their minds and thought processes to steer through life.


While reading the book, the readers will feel as if the author is talking to them, making the experience of reading this book remarkable. Self-help books teach different aspects of positive growth, but in this book, readers would notice that the author mentioned the topics youngsters find challenging to discuss with someone. Here, the author acts like a friend who shares his vulnerabilities with readers, inspiring them to open up and share their feelings. The main idea of this book is to make readers understand the importance of "Being yourself and loving yourself is the first thing."


The book stands out because the author narrated his life experiences in this book as life lessons in the form of narrations and verses. Though some readers may feel like rants, in the end, they would feel it is their experiences that they are reading about in this book. There is a connectivity and relatability that readers would regard with this book.


Many quotes and thoughts would leave a long-lasting impression on readers' minds. Some of them include:


  • The days of nothingness don't always have to end in burnout or start feeling frustrated and helpless. You can change them before you hit rock bottom.

  • You gravitate towards the future you want to have. (It resonated pretty well with me.)

  • Our bodies will always be a work in progress.

  • Your resolutions should not be things that depress you. They should be things that encourage you to wake up every day and live.


Readers will find more such quotes and thoughts in this book. For me, whenI started this book, I felt perplexed because of the title, but as I proceeded, I realized this book came at the right time for me to read. Although there were places where I felt the rants were more profound than narratives, I pushed myself to read this book because it reflected positivity and answers to my thoughts.


So, if you are someone who wishes to read light-hearted and in-depth non-fiction, give this book a try maybe you will find yourself in this book. 


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