Julia W.

Inspiring and encouraging

Revisado: 10-06-24

Matthew narrates his own experience of the pain of depression. He gives reasons to hang in there. The main point is when the deep depression eventually subsides, you will enjoy life again.

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Victorian drama, love and manners

Revisado: 08-26-24

Jane Austen’s pastorale romance is exquisitely narrated by Frances Barber. Fanny Price is the beloved heroine of this novel whose character and forbearance is rewarded with the best of all worlds.

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A consummate experience for the seasoned American

Revisado: 06-30-22

The narrator heightened the brilliance of this first novel of Fitzgerald. Written in the early 1920s, the American experience of Fitzgerald upper middle-class realizes in prose his young creative years. It is no wonder his genius overwhelmed his passionate emotional mind. Fitzgerald died at 44 in a small apartment in Hollywood, sober but spent.

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The Beautiful Are Damned

Revisado: 04-21-22

With all their beauty and money, in a way, Anthony and Gloria Patch were damned. Alcohol and pride ruled Anthony and a leased beauty haunted Gloria as she turned twenty-nine.
Fitzgerald’s inherent story reads like his diary and foreshadow of his own and Zelda’s “roaring twenties” marriage. In the end of their story, Scott lived alone in an old apartment in Hollywood and his wife died in a fire in an asylum.

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THE FACTS prove Ron Ward Guilty; but the race card is played.

Revisado: 12-07-21

Q? Would the hosts defend a white 15 year old boy with as much compassion as they did this black teen?
Ronald Ward raped one of the 76 year old women, saying he was "forced at knife point" by another man. The hosts find it hard to believe a boy of 15 could killed three people in the home. Case in point: in Florida two black brothers, 15 and 16, held 4 white siblings hostage, forcing them to have sex with each other (including oral sex) at gunpoint and then slaughtered all four victims. One sister lived and identified the two boys who were prosecuted, tried, and convicted. The teachers for the defense said both black boys were good kids and couldn’t believe they committed such a heinous crime. The prosecutor showed their teachers a picture of the four naked victims lying on the floor in their own blood. Therefore, young teenagers can be monstrous psychopaths and commit unconscionable crimes.
After the conviction publicity made Ronald’s trial a race issue in spite of the facts that proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Ronald’s fingerprints found at the scene the night the crime was committed.

Note it is far-fetched that two 76 year old ladies’ home would be a drug house for drug dealers. Also telling is that Ronald had several versions of “what happened” -including accusing the murders at others. Both juries, white and black/mixed came to same verdict: Guilty as charged.

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Classic American Dream story

Revisado: 09-02-21

Rediscovered after Fitzgerald’s death The Great Gatsby remains heralded as the iconic American love story.
The genius of the author is timeless in telling a romantic youth first love of a shallow, spoiled rich girl. This young Fitzgerald’s depth and passion of ideal love is unrivaled in modern literature .

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Riveting drama of sibling rivalry

Revisado: 08-11-21

This audiobook recording with Alfred Molina is good. IMO, the definitive performance of “True West,” was the 1984 television film adaptation with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. Considered his best play, TRUE WEST is Sam Shepard’s 1980 drama of sibling rivalry.

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True Crime cases by Ann Rule in her WA Satel

Revisado: 07-16-21

Ann Rule goes into graphic details in her Washington state true murders. The narrator makes easygoing listening to these horrific crimes. The last murders in the Oregon Forrest is especially cringing.

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Jen and Jeanne do true crime oddity best!

Revisado: 07-06-21

The case has of New Delhi student doctor, Ramesh Jain is peculiar so it fits well into J & J’s program. These ladies analyze this story from start to finish and again.
Nb: I didn’t get the DIY pedicure Jen tells Jeanne at the end as pertinent nor remarkable.

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These ladies go horrendous crime best!

Revisado: 07-06-21

Jen and Jeanne give the lowdown on heinous crimes. Even more, they’re entertaining as well. The Pepin Sisters in France commit an outrageous mutilation of a mother and daughter who employed them as housekeepers. Again J & J succeed to please with gore and murder.

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