Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Resisting Happiness
Matthew Kelly · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Matthew Kelly (author-narrated)
74/100
👍 Worth It
Matthew Kelly writes with real candor here, weaving his own struggles with procrastination and self-sabotage into practical, faith-rooted encouragement toward prayer and service. It leans on personal story more than research, but for a Catholic or Christian reader looking for honest spiritual self-help, this delivers. Kelly narrates it himself, and that confessional, first-person delivery is genuinely worth the listen.
✦ 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: excellent Matthew Kelly narrates his own book with genuine, confessional warmth that matches the first-person material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing75
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit85
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict74
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