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Raising Raffi
- The First Five Years
- De: Keith Gessen
- Narrado por: Keith Gessen
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painful Story of Ambivalent Parenting
- De Lisa Ryan en 02-24-24
- Raising Raffi
- The First Five Years
- De: Keith Gessen
- Narrado por: Keith Gessen
Painful Story of Ambivalent Parenting
Revisado: 02-24-24
I love books narrated by the author and Gessen did not disappoint. He has a great voice and inflections which naturally express exactly what he felt when he wrote his essays. There’s something about hearing a story in the writer’s own voice. I hate performance-reading. It’s grating.
Gessen’s son presented obviously with some kind of a behavioral disorder from a young age. I kept thinking, “ get that child to a Child Study team!” Every caring parent, which Gessen is, can relate to searching for effective parenting strategies that don’t jeopardize the precious connection with their beloved child. Gessen describes many resources he used. As a reader though, it was painful to witness Gessen and his wife’s ambivalence about setting and holding boundaries. I couldn’t help cringing at their apologizing, giving in, and refusal to accept their power as parents. A power to do good. How secure could their scratching, punching, throwing, demanding child feel with all the guilt his parents felt about setting basic boundaries?
I kept thinking, “ your kid won’t enrage you so much if you set clear limits and enforce them.”
Perhaps it’s Gessen and his wife’s generation that is terrified of victimizing any one, afraid to exercise authority, or acknowledge that though their children are precious that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be pointedly taught that everyone deserves basic consideration, most especially the people who do everything for you.
Even if dear Raffi had a diagnosis, he would need decisive, unapologetic parenting.
I didn’t appreciate the politics woven through Gessen’s story telling but he is entitled to his views of course.
I couldnt help but connect though, his ridiculous and needless white guilt with his parenting struggles. I’m still cringing.
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Diagnosis
- Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
- De: Lisa Sanders
- Narrado por: Lisa Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 473
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 468
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times best-selling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama, House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet, she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Repetitive from her previous work
- De anon en 03-08-21
- Diagnosis
- Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
- De: Lisa Sanders
- Narrado por: Lisa Sanders
Riveting, compassionate
Revisado: 12-05-22
Firstly, the stories of each diagnostic mystery
are varied, nuanced and fascinatingly complex or unexpectedly simple.
A variety of patient populations are included.
The dedication and humanity of the physicians involved in each case round out the storylines.
I put myself in the place of the family members advocating for their loved one’s recovery and was moved by their often vital role in the outcomes.
The narration by Dr. Sanders, the author, is equally why I rated this audiobook 5 stars.
I love her narration. She is telling dramatic stories without embellishing them with melodrama. The stories speak for themselves. Yet the human details she chooses to include are perfectly integrated into the narrative.
I would recommend this audiobook to anyone interested in general health, mysteries, the medical profession at any level of service, those who face or support someone with a known or unknown medical condition, or anyone who loves a good story.
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The New One
- Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
- De: Mike Birbiglia, J. Hope Stein
- Narrado por: Mike Birbiglia, J. Hope Stein
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,147
With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times best-selling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. Along with hilarious and poignant stories he has never shared before, this audiobook is sprinkled with poetry Jen wrote as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood.
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1 out of 5 stars
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5 whining hours from formerly-uproarious comedian
- De Thomas Cook en 06-20-20
- The New One
- Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
- De: Mike Birbiglia, J. Hope Stein
- Narrado por: Mike Birbiglia, J. Hope Stein
Sigh…
Revisado: 04-11-22
I wanted to like it.
But it’s just not funny.
A couple’s private depressing misery I wish I hadn’t heard about.
They seem like two nice people though.
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