Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
It's Great to Suck at Something
Karen Rinaldi · 2019
🎙 Narrated by Karen Rinaldi (author-narrated)
76/100
👍 Worth It
Penny loved how Karen Rinaldi turns 17 years of wiping out on a surfboard into a genuinely fresh argument against our hustle-culture obsession with mastery. It's part memoir, part gentle philosophy, and the Washington Post backed it up as smart and funny. Rinaldi narrates her own book and does it well, so this is one where the audio adds real warmth.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated; a reviewer specifically praised Rinaldi's narration as 'really good' and well-suited to the personal material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety82
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing75
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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