Patti Harada

Great teaching method 

Revisado: 03-02-24

My Italian is coming along very fast. I wish I had had something likethis when I was learning German.

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My life as a 77 year old woman has been represented in every aspect of this book.

Revisado: 01-12-24

I treasured every word. I’ve always been a hider. I did what was expected (and then some). Secretly I wanted to be appreciated. One day I took on “the task” of appreciating myself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg initiated change in the most significant ways possible. While she was doing that, I hid behind a guise of happy, giving, doing, and engaging with others for self protection.

Were it not for her, I would never have found my own path in my life. I love her deeply. ❤️

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This will lift you above everything happening today

Revisado: 11-01-19

I would have been grateful for only the portion originally intended for this book. I wouldn’t have imagined how my life would be enriched by his experience of pain and terror that created the unanticipated final chapter of this book.

I love Dave Barry and his family so much it brings a flood of joyful tears when they come to my heart, which they do every day.

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Hang on to your heart

Revisado: 12-27-16

From the first time I saw you I've loved you, Trevor Noah! I thought you were a good man then, and now I know why. I'm 70. I'm glad to know that means I won't have to live in a world that hasn't got you in it!

How is your mom? Your brothers? The Hood? ❤

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Gazzaniga is brilliant and inspiring

Revisado: 07-11-15

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Unfortunately, I have no friends interested in brain science. I discovered Michael Gazzaniga's work in 1996, and was so excited my heart pounded and I nearly passed out from hyperventilating.

What did you like best about this story?

I am aways astounded by the construction of scientific research, and Gazzaniga's research is made all the more thrilling by his own excitement about his work. His articles and this book bleed his thrill at this work. One reviewer made the comment that he liked the science, but that was all. For me, seeing the whole picture of his life, his fellow scientists and the wildly painful decisions made as opportunities arose which required moving away from his wonderful homes and their histories of friends and fellow scientists, helped me place his work and life in context. That might be because I fell madly in love him with during my 1996 reading of an article he wrote, but for me, they are inseparable. He is loved, admired, trusted and respected. I join the crowd with joy.

What about Johnny Heller’s performance did you like?

Well, I really have never heard Michael Gazzaniga's voice. But Johnny Heller reads this book like it was his own work and life he was describing. Beautifully narrated. And it's okay of Michael Gazzaniga has a little squeaky voice. I still love him.Heller could read to me from a phone book (do we still have those?) and I'd be thrilled.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

More than one, but all the same. He drew me deeply into his work and the amazing opportunities that he created (and that fell in his lap) and being deeply immersed (vicariously) in his work, the opportunities and painful changes that accompanied the opportunities of switching sides of our continent moved me deeply. It speaks of dedication and shows his family's devotion to him and to his work.

Oh, and he loves tractors.

Any additional comments?

I am so lucky to have stumbled onto Dr. Gazzaniga. I'm glad I got to be on this planet at the same time as he.

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Breathtaking

Revisado: 02-10-15

I've fallen madly in love with life. And, of course, am continuing my deep love and appreciation for Bill Nye.

He is the narrator, by the way, and no one else could possibly have read this with the passion with which he wrote it.

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