Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Subversive Habits
Shannen Dee Williams · 2022
93/100
👍 Worth It
This is the real deal — fourteen years of archival digging and oral histories that finally tell the story of Black Catholic nuns as the freedom fighters they were, not passive figures on the sidelines of history. It won major academic prizes for a reason, and it fills a gap nobody else had filled.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Contains historical discussion of racism, segregation, and sexual violence under slavery/Jim Crow — handled in scholarly, non-graphic manner. We still scored it 93; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness97
Craft & writing92
Originality98
Evidence & accuracy95
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit80
Human-eye read90
Penny’s verdict93
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