Amanda Carmichael

Every little life has a story

Revisado: 06-03-23

I loved this book and the layers of struggle striving and joy. Sometimes devastating other times quaint its astory of the ups and downs of life and the life lessons past through generations. Loved it, think a different title would suit it though

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disappointed all around

Revisado: 05-19-23

typically I find Jon’s reporting to be thought provoking and thorough, this “series” was neither. It was as if he found himself deep in the reporting with out an ending but he decided to just end the podcast anyway. There is no “point” or thesis just a lot of reporting that goes…nowhere? I’m really surprised he released this!

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Hard to define why I don’t like this book

Revisado: 11-29-22

I really wanted to like this book! I’m not sure if its the narrator, the pace of the “story” or the flimsy use of “facts” but I keep turning it off, irritated. I think the premise of the book outline in the introduction is interesting but unfortunately that’s the last intriguing thing I’ve found. It might be that I already knew too much about apples, so I skipped the end of that chapter. But I know almost nothing about tulips and still can’t bear to listen. It could be the chirpy tone of the narrator recounting his charming childhood…I don’t know. I’m sure this book has an audience but it seems it is not me.

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fact checking

Revisado: 05-03-22

Malcolm Gladwell does use Twitter…I know it’s a little thing but once there’s a wrong fact in a book you start to question everything the author says. Overall I like the book it is very easy to navigate and has actionable items to make use of the author’s research (even if he didn’t fact check all of that research….)

Performance is OK, it’s a little like listening to an announcer you might hear in a theater “the show is about to begin,” or “we thank you for refraining to use flash photography during this presentation” for five hours, but not annoying or hard to understand
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Interesting! with some bumps in the road

Revisado: 03-22-22

Oddly I felt that listening at 1.4+ speed helped the narration immensely!!
There are some interesting stories here but almost no original reporting. Most info is lifted from the books/biographies of other authors.
The parts about the author herself lack a little reflection, she talks about her creativity as a reason for success but each story about her building her business is based in having a helpful connection goop/banksy/her first sale to a collector in Paris.

I don’t see the connection between creativity and success but rather it makes me feel I need to grow my network (which is also good advice!)

If you’re interested in learning about important artists there is definitely good info here

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slightly unhinged in a good way

Revisado: 11-14-20

a little wild, a little more than unbelievable, but a fun escape and of course you cant beat that performance!!

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Very interesting

Revisado: 03-02-18

You don’t have to agree with all of this to enjoy the book. Great perspective, great reading voice, interesting story (I listened at 1.25 speed and it was perfect!)

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