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Taking Care of Your Aging Parents
- De: Michelle Seitzer, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michelle Seitzer
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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For most of us, caregiving for aging parents is brand-new territory we don’t get much time to prepare for. But while the experience is scary and exhausting, it can also be a rewarding time filled with moments that bring deep joy and fulfillment, and a stronger relationship with the people who cared for you when you needed it most.
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Difficult Topic yet Necessary
- De Lisa M. en 05-17-24
- Taking Care of Your Aging Parents
- De: Michelle Seitzer, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michelle Seitzer
Lots of holes in content
Revisado: 10-16-24
If you are looking for more reminders to take care of yourself while caregiving or how not to beat yourself up over your perceived failings, this Chicken Soup For The Caregiver Soul-like book is for you.
If you are looking for concrete steps with background explanations, this book won’t help much. I am still confused over the author’s advice to “clean out the bathroom and linens” of a passed loved one before addressing/securing valuables. And no mention of locking down the credit of a terminal family member as soon as possible to avoid identity theft? I would have appreciated much more advice on how to care for a parent without infantilizing them, even when said parent has become like a terrible teenager or worse, a two year old.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
The kind of book you are sad when it ends
Revisado: 08-06-24
Wow. Placing this novel in my top 20 of all time. The writing, the narrator, the story, the ending…. I have no doubt I will listen to this book again. And probably again.
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- De: Georgia Hunter
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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The New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite - We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer.
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Love it but...
- De Roz en 07-19-17
- We Were the Lucky Ones
- De: Georgia Hunter
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
A soul-crushing story you don’t want to hear but you really must.
Revisado: 04-06-24
I found the novel a little hard to follow between the numerous characters but it was well worth the effort to pay close attention. It was emotional to follow the toll of the ever-escalating persecution amongst one extended family.
I very much appreciated the historical events backstory and facts between chapters- a very poignant reminder WWIi wasn’t all about Europe and Germany wasn’t the only hateful and greedy aggressor.
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Go Set a Watchman
- A Novel
- De: Harper Lee
- Narrado por: Reese Witherspoon
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, best-selling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
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To Kill A Mockingbird vs Go Set A Watchman
- De Sara en 07-15-15
- Go Set a Watchman
- A Novel
- De: Harper Lee
- Narrado por: Reese Witherspoon
Well, bloody bleeping hell…
Revisado: 03-06-24
I’ll start with the easy: Reese Witherspoon is simply MASTERFUL in the narration of this book; I now cannot imagine anyone being able to deliver this challenging novel any more beautifully.
And now the hard:
This book is hard. When it was first released, I quickly blocked out its existence and all the rumblings of controversy surrounding this “sequel” novel; I couldn’t stand any negativity regarding the author and characters of one of my most beloved novels. At one point of my life I was fully prepared to name all my children and future pets after all the characters of To Kill A Mockingbird, I was that smitten.
Obviously, I finally relented to curiosity.
This book confirms my belief that Harper Lee possesses an otherworldly ability to write,and compose extremely complex exchanges with a simple and stunningly beautiful voice. Her talent is singular.
Still, while I loved the writing, this book is so difficult for me to absorb. I know my brain will continue to find the knowledge Go Set A Watchman was written BEFORE To Kill A Mockingbird utterly incomprehensible to me until the day I die.
While a big portion of me wants to pretend this novel doesn’t exist, I recommend it, and will shout from the rooftops its valuable reminder lesson (which is truly timely in the 2024 political climate) of how and why to accept and successfully coexist with people adhering to polar opposite views from yours.
If you are a TKAM diehard, don your emotional armor first and then enjoy the listen.
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Always the Last to Know
- De: Kristan Higgins
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters - Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold....
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Life is messy
- De Deed en 06-13-20
- Always the Last to Know
- De: Kristan Higgins
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, Graham Winton
Much to my surprise, Barb was my fav parts
Revisado: 02-20-24
The chapter of Barb and Caro in the coffee shop is worth the price/rime alone. I listened to that chapter 3 times and laughed my ______ off. The book is kind of predictable and a little bit of a let down thereafter. I don’t believe I would still feel this way if self-absorbed Sadie was a minor character instead of the main.
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Life and Other Inconveniences
- De: Kristan Higgins
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso, Dion Graham, Suzy Jackson, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows. Genevieve rose from the ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting her other son. When Emma's own mother died, her father abandoned her on his mother's doorstep. Genevieve took Emma in and reluctantly raised her - until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school.
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Another KH Winner
- De S. Plemmons en 08-23-19
- Life and Other Inconveniences
- De: Kristan Higgins
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso, Dion Graham, Suzy Jackson, Xe Sands
Absorbing story
Revisado: 02-08-24
The narrators were fantastic- I especially looked forward to Genevieve’s parts, which I felt a little guilty over because Xe Sands is a fav of mine.
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The Boys' Club
- A Novel
- De: Erica Katz
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book - star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won’t change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm’s money and energy....
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It's not for me
- De James en 09-19-20
- The Boys' Club
- A Novel
- De: Erica Katz
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
Surprised me..
Revisado: 02-01-24
I didn’t have high expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Worth your time and definitely your attention.
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The House at Riverton
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
- Duración: 20 h y 47 m
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Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace’s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge – something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
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Pleasantly surprised!
- De amber en 05-30-23
- The House at Riverton
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
Not Kate Morton’s best..
Revisado: 01-25-24
A slow burn novel… and in many places bogged down by an abundance of superfluous detail. And when I finished, I realized several story lines were not addressed enough and I was left wondering why ink was sacrificed for the lack of point.
While I am glad I reached the ending, I had a few moments I almost abandoned this novel due to difficulty finding a connection with any of the characters to want to see them through the conclusion.
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race. Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- De Lynn en 08-04-14
- The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
Even better the second time
Revisado: 12-30-23
Upon the release of the movie, I decided to revisit one of my favorite books of all time. The writing and research is so well-done, it’s beyond description.
However, if you are like me, a Seattle native, or have a deep connection to the PNW, listening to this book will give you a kind of outburst syndrome, as you will uncontrollably correct aloud the pronunciation of the many places the narrator butchers. Don’t get me wrong, Edward Herrman is a fantastic reader and his tenor is perfect for this book; I just dearly wish someone gave him Native American linguistic pointers beforehand.
Alki is Al-kai, not Al-key.
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Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- De: Luke Barr
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In early August 1889, César Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come at the request of Richard D'Oyly Carte, the financier of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had modernized theater and was now looking to create the world's best hotel. D'Oyly Carte soon seduced Ritz to move to London with his team, which included Auguste Escoffier, the chef de cuisine known for his elevated, original dishes.
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Like Cesar Ritz, a real dandy
- De BenYL en 04-24-18
- Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- De: Luke Barr
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Fascinating subject
Revisado: 12-20-23
Eye-opening historical account of how luxury hotels evolved at the turn of the 20th century, as well as the you-could-never-guess expansive influence they had- and still have to this day.
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