Butter Side Up by Jane Enright is a personal account of navigating life's challenges with resilience and positivity. Her storytelling interspersed with messages she sent at the time make an interesting read, However, I found myself wanting more concrete action points instead of a few that were repeated several times.

This book can be extremely inspiring for many, unfortunately I struggled to get into it because it made me upset from the beginning. I think it is worth the read if you are going through a tough time and need additional inspiration.

I thought this was a great book! I loved Jane's optimism in the face of challenges and how she reframed her situations to turn them around. She gives some great advice and insight!

If you liked Eat, Pray, Love you will LOVE Butter Side Up. I was not at all expecting a book that would reaffirm what I needed to hear right now. I was expecting a memoir. I got so much more. I read an ARC ebook and will now be ordering a few copies of the book. I plan on giving this to a few of my close friends, it was that good. Not many books get me to laugh, cry, AND take notes; this one did all 3. I am also planning to continue my focus by following up with some ideas I've read over and over this past few weeks: Meditation, Yoga, Journeling. I thank Jane Enright for motivating me to continue on my personal quest.

Butter Side Up by Jane Enright is about dealing with difficult life events and how to cope with adversity by focusing on the positives and embracing gratitude.

I was excited to get a free digital Version of Butter Side Up via Netgalley, seeing as this book ticked so many of my initial boxes: great cover and title, overcoming personal struggle, memoir by an intelligent woman, with potential some commentary on our current times.

Reviewing memoirs is always tricky for me - who am I to judge someone's personal experience? The pain and heartbreak Enright experiences in a short amount of time touched me and I enjoyed the personal touch she gave her text by peppering in emails, she used to write to her friends. When it came to the advice or "self-help" portions of the book, however, I found the "OMG" approach (looking at a problem from the outside in, mindfulness, gratitude) a bit simplistic and repetitive. In fact, I would have enjoyed more about her story on the whole, instead she focusses mainly on her partner's traumatic accident that requires her to support him in hospital.

I really enjoyed this as I have been dealing with grief of my own this past year. This was a fast read and I felt myself nodding along and agreeing with Enright along the way. She made me feel heard and seen. I really liked that she included letters she was sending to friends and family during the year. As this book covers heavy life topics and change, we are still left with so much hope.

'Butter Side Up' is a beautifully written memoir following Jane as she faces tragedy, health issues and loss. She inspires you to move ahead and not let change and difficult times get in the way of life.

Thank you NetGalley and Friesen Press for providing me an ARC! It came at a time right when I needed it.

A self help book that reads like a short story with a few laughs and a touch of sadness, good tools to implement and lessons you can use everyday. Going into this book, I assumed I was going to read another self help with instructions on how to live your best life with a boringness that I’ve read many times before, however the emails and life quips add to the message of outside in thinking, mindfulness and gratitude.