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The Light We Carry
- Overcoming in Uncertain Times
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 11,323
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,188
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10,145
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with listeners, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointing—Too Ego-filled
- De Patricia Webb en 11-29-22
- The Light We Carry
- Overcoming in Uncertain Times
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
her first book was so much better
Revisado: 02-05-23
Boy, this was so much less wonderful than her first book…this was way too preachy!!!!
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Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes)
- De: Nancy Spiller
- Narrado por: Nancy Spiller
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
In print, the unnamed freelance food writer of Nancy Spiller’s sardonic debut novel, Entertaining Disasters, lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.’s culinary journalism scene. But in reality, she's been inventing the dinner parties she writes about because social paralysis sets in at the very thought of a real guest in her hillside home. Enter the glossy food magazine editor, new in town, who wants an invitation to one of her bashes, and the panic-stricken journey from fantasy hostess to reality bites is on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvellously entertaining and insightful
- De Mavis Rode en 01-21-21
- Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes)
- De: Nancy Spiller
- Narrado por: Nancy Spiller
Warning: This Novel Will Make You Hungry
Revisado: 08-10-20
Warning. Don't start this delicious audio book until you have the time to listen straight through. You won't have a choice. Entertaining Disasters: A Novel With Recipes by Nancy Spiller is so good you'll want to eat it all at once.
The author also does an excellent job as narrator, which makes the listening experience of this intimate story even more personal and arresting.
The story is set in LA's culinary scene and the clever narrative arc revolves around entertaining and hosting a dinner party. Sounds easy enough, but it turns out that the central character in this debut novel is a food writer who has been inventing the fabulous dinner parties she's been writing about. When she has to morph from fantasy hostess to real hostess, she has a meltdown, and the book takes off.
A subplot revolves around the writer's mentally ill mother who, for the family's health, clearly should have been institutionalized much earlier in the story. I also wondered how the author could pull off an audio book with recipes. And she did an excellent job. Her description tempted to me to make osso bocu tonight.
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Mourning Dove
- De: Claire Fullerton
- Narrado por: Claire Fullerton
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
The heart has a home when it has an ally. If Millie Crossan doesn't know anything else, she knows this one truth simply because her brother Finley grew up beside her. Charismatic Finley, 18 months her senior, becomes Millie's guide when their mother Posey leaves their father and moves her children from Minnesota to Memphis shortly after Millie's 10th birthday. Memphis is a world foreign to Millie and Finley. This is the 1970s Memphis, the genteel world of their mother's upbringing and vastly different from anything they've ever known. Here they are the outsiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mourning Dove
- De MSGirl43 en 12-29-19
- Mourning Dove
- De: Claire Fullerton
- Narrado por: Claire Fullerton
Lively, lovely southern intrigue
Revisado: 11-17-19
Start this book and you won’t be able to put it down. You’ll be entertained and educated from the first page to the very last.
This exquisitely written southern tale focuses on a small, prominent Memphis family. Anyone who has had a close brother-sister relationship, or dealt with issues of family alcoholism, or New Age religion will identify with the themes this novel travels.
It’s also very wonderful that a central character is the stately, gorgeous Family Home, and what Home represents—its draw and pull and nostalgia for a seemingly safe and beautiful place.
I read this book while in Southern California, but I could also see the draw and serendipity of reading this while traveling slowly through the south. I’d recommend reading this while eating a slice of warm pecan pie like my mother used to make.
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