Michelle Daniels

Unsettling inner thoughts

Revisado: 04-08-25

This author has an uncanny knack for exposing his characters’ egos in the most hair-curling, cringey way. There were many times I thought I couldn’t finish - or even listen another minute. I’m glad I did because it left me with something profound: the plausibility that people can be just as gross and despicable as you imagined.

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Stunning

Revisado: 03-31-25

I expected TMI, but this was simply stunning. The title of the last chapter - It Didn’t Have to Be This Way - is a good summary and maybe the take-away lesson. I have no idea what saves or protects us from this kind of power run amok, but the author provides good reason to believe that the best one can do is protect self and family.

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Up until 2 am

Revisado: 12-01-24

I’m surprised by how hooked I got on this story. I wouldn’t have been interested but it was selected by my book club and when I realized this is the same author of Killers of the Flower Moon, I soaked up every detail and felt the import of a true story that shapes our current culture and politics. Bravo to another believable reconstruction of What Really Happened. I was up until 2 am because I had to know.

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Perfect narration

Revisado: 03-18-24

Beautiful story that could’ve easily been lost in the telling. So many characters but their voices and personalities were distinct. This might be my favorite Audible listen.

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Lewis is a masterful storyteller.

Revisado: 02-26-24

I can understand why others would be frustrated. The details of this story are granular and Lewis appears to have swept many of them into the tale. But it’s confusing for anyone not familiar with crypto or financial markets. What matters is that it was also confusing for everyone who took part, but not confusing enough to quash their greed. The bombshell is in the last 30 minutes and it’s so good I can easily forgive the earlier twists and turns that were so boggling it felt like fiction.

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Real history in the fiction

Revisado: 12-26-23

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this story. There was enough historical detail to send me into research mode and down several rabbit hole learning details I never knew about well-known figures and events. I’m impressed that a tale pinned to a specific era could be so timeless.

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Narration makes it a struggle.

Revisado: 11-19-22

I just finished my first encounter with Kat Atkinson and was so mesmerized I couldn’t wait to fall into another deep dive. While the narrator for this is undeniably talented, the different dialects combined with foreign languages and liberal use of arcane words and slang made the story too hard to follow. During an hour-long walk, I only managed to progress 20 minutes in the story because I kept having to rewind to try and understand what was said.

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Strout Never Fails

Revisado: 11-13-22

I thought I’d dread a trip through the anxiety and uncertainty of the pandemic’s first year. But Strout never fails to deliver the harsh and the delightful with an even-handed realism. My life has nothing in common with Lucy or other familiar characters who make an appearance, but it’s somehow comforting to find them nonetheless relatable. A very brief mention of Olive Kittredge made me double over with laughter. I’m so grateful for this author’s wonderful talent. Paired with Kimberly Farr’s narration, it’s perfection.

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Unexpected

Revisado: 10-24-22

This was unexpected, timely, and useful. I’m 53, so much older than the target audience, but this helped me in two ways: 1) It let me know I’m not crazy about what makes it so much harder for black people in any grind; 2) hearing from people who figured out how to push past those limits.
I only wish I could share it with some I know who can’t afford Audible.

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More Than I Expected

Revisado: 12-28-21

I’m older (52) and from a time when lack of resources made discussion of trauma wholly impractical. Worse, telling someone - anyone - what happened to you was guaranteed to create more trauma for you or someone else. It seems younger women have more outlets for what, to me, seemed as mundane and annoying as ants at a picnic. But hearing Minda Harts say and reiterate that these are traumatic incidents, experienced daily, gave me so much pause. Many pauses, actually, but I often stopped to re-examine my own experiences. Not to look at what happened, but to finally see *what happened to me*. How much of my heart and cognitive resources I gave to trying to solve this problem that’s followed me through 30+ years of my working life. I recently came to the conclusion I would let difficult people keep their own problems. This book took me a step further in helping me see how much I still carried with me. Thank you, Minda.

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