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A beautiful book of wonder and grace

Revisado: 03-19-25

I loved this book! It was full of life, whether that life be restful or funny or distressful or sad. Indeed, it paints a picture of life as in the past, but it also gives you the wherewithal to deal with life today, even in the most trying of circumstances (think Local and Grateful). And the reading of Dermot Crowley is extraordinarily beautiful! Ah, this is happiness.

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Rich thoughts almost too thick for just listening

Revisado: 02-07-25

I both read and listened to this book at the same time, usually reading after listening—it was just too rich (I mean that positively) to listen and let thoughts pass. It needs meditation and reflection with it, but with the two together bears gifts of instruction and meditation. It is classic Jamie Smith with its fascinating references to popular culture along with interpretations of Augustine, and Michael Page is, as always, a fine reader.

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Wonderful Story Wonderfully Read

Revisado: 10-12-24

A wonderful story with excellent writing. And Tom Hanks is such a gift of a performer, even in simply reading a story.

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Bravo! Fabulous!

Revisado: 08-19-24

What a beautiful story and wonderfully read story. I will listen to this again, and read the book as well. The profound human experiences are expressed here, and the response is to experience sadness, laughter, intrigue, anger at injustice and human hatred, and so much more. Exceptional!

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EXHAUSTIBLY Thorough, Highly Informative

Revisado: 08-13-24

This was a wonderful beginning biography. At times it could get (for the non-professional-historian) exhaustibly—or exhaustingly?!—thorough. Yet it was excellent, and the reading matched it. I look forward (in a fearful and sad way) to the sequel and (thankfully) downfall.

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A fabulous biography of an extraordinary man

Revisado: 10-06-23

I thoroughly enjoyed this biography and Meacham’s reading. It recounted Lincoln’s weaknesses and missteps, but also his slurs that guided unequalled political moves that led a nation toward justice. I was sorry to come to the end of this remarkable life. What helps me move on is now turning to another great of the same generation, Frederick Douglass.

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A Meditation on Life

Revisado: 09-05-23

First of all, though not most importantly, the match of reader and story was beautiful. I did at times listen to it at 1.2 speed, but even then the reading was wonderful to my ears.

The story is a meditation on life, with support by Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard, which I so appreciated. Love, despair, stuck-in-a-rut-ness, beauty, God, change and more—all are there and might have one stopping to reflect for a time. I was sorry that the book ended for it blessed my life for many days.

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Reader Michael Page is superb!

Revisado: 05-23-23

M. Page made the book live! In general, I enjoyed the story line a lot. I’ll listen to another of RLS’s works as I’m able.

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A Fundamental Life-Teaching to Be Grown Into

Revisado: 05-10-23

USA Americans, myself included, are all affected by this culture of success, power, self-centeredness, and more. Richard Rohr points to a basic need for us to grow into—realizing both the innate gift/beauty of the self and the fact that it is always a gift from above. This is not something the mind can simply hear and receive; the heart must hear, welcome, and learn to live in throughout life.

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Excellent recounting and telling, but…

Revisado: 04-05-22

A meticulous and fine account of a terrible battle, as best as I can tell. I wish, though, that I had read the book instead, with the benefit of a set of maps and perhaps a list of names and relationships. But still, it was a clear and very good telling of the hopes and horror of war.

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