Book Review for Reading People by Anne Bogel

Hello Readers,

I am so honored to be part of the launch team for Anne Bogels new book Reading People "How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything”. I got to read the advance review copy and today I am sharing my honest review of Annes new book. 

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“Personality is the tool that makes it possible to get where you want to go” - Anne Bogel

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What a joy for me to finish reading Reading People By Anne Bogel. After I finished reading the book I was so pleased to know more about myself and my personality. There were many personality frameworks I had not heard of and I was very interested in learning about those new to me frameworks. Anne lists  so many books titles for further reading that I could spend the next several months reading only on the topic of personality and still feel like I had only scratched the surface. I am a devoted follower of Annes blog Modern Mrs Darcy and I know that I can trust her book recommendations 100%. I highlighted every single title so I can go back and and request some of them at my library. 

The thing that I appreciated most about this book is that Anne does not claim to know everything about the topic of Personality. She  became fascinated with personality frameworks when she was a teenager and since then has spent quite a lot of her time studying the different personality frameworks so she could understand herself and how she can relate to the world around her. Anne wrote Reading People as a resource to introduce readers to 7 different personality frameworks. She basically did all the leg work for you to make this topic much easier to approach. THANK YOU ANNE! She introduces the topic in such a friendly way. She is honest about the journey she went on to understand her personality better. She writes about the time during her life where she had herself thinking she was a different personality type because that was what she thought should be her personality type instead of the personality type that she actually is. She shares many stories about how she handled situations based on her personality both negative and positive. All of which resonated with me because after reading her book I feel like Anne and I are Kindred spirits because all of her hiccups over the years are very similar to my own personality. (hello introvert tendencies!) 

I am very excited that Reading People releases next month, so you can get a copy for yourself and begin your journey to understand your personality type even better. You can go to ReadingPeopleBook.com to take a free quiz to see what 9 reading personality best describes you! If you want to dive deeper, Anne made a class that you can dive deeper into all 9 types and she gives book recommendations for each type. You can get this class FREE with a pre-order of the book. You can also get a FREE download of the audiobook (Anne recorded it!). 

Here are my quiz results for those of you who are dying to know.

Hello, Dear Reader!

If you're the Social Reader, book talk is a key part of your reading experience. Bookish discussions help you clarify your thoughts, sometimes changes your mind, and are always a good time. You're likely to get your book recommendations from your real-life friends, your actual book club, and Oprah. (Or the fun but authoritative figure who looms large over your reading life and feels like your bestie, whether or not you've ever met this person in real life.) 

You're probably, though not necessarily, an extrovert. And you likely read a lot of bestsellers. It's easier to talk about a book when more people have read it!

 The results were spot on except for the part where it says that I am probably an extrovert. I am a true introvert except when it comes to books because I will talk about books to just about anyone.

I hope you get the chance to pick up Annes book and dive deeper into the personality frameworks.

Happy Reading,

Rachael