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This Body I Wore
- A Memoir
- De: Diana Goetsch
- Narrado por: Diana Goetsch
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this beautiful audiobook
- De Jessie Small en 02-18-25
- This Body I Wore
- A Memoir
- De: Diana Goetsch
- Narrado por: Diana Goetsch
A giant leap in human history coming to learn more about itself
Revisado: 07-15-22
This book is a vital submission to the historical record of trans experience. The gifted author walks the reader alongside her journey, cataloging, and drawing intimate meaning from her life's relationships, stories, truiumphs, and bewilderments. With poetic artistry, you find that as she grows, you grow alongside her. Goetsch's writing style is sharp, clever, and entertaining while also being intimate and tender. Somehow, each page is like the slow expert turning of a key to her experience and wisdom, each passage being revealed as the reader became ready to receive it. By the time the novel is complete, I felt that I knew not only knew Goetsch, but my society and my own life and authenticity better.
This book is for readers interested in trans experience, love, sex, and US society. In particular, it shares the story of a person born and labeled male in the 60s but who can't figure out what isn't clicking for this label. Why can't they have successful relationships, love, and confidence in their sexuality and identity? Why do they feel immense pleasure and resonances wearing, and even just thinking about women's clothes? With limited community, culture, and understanding, matched with no uncertain antipathy from the broader society, she explores the margins of cross-dressing in a largely unsympathetic and insensitive LGB and straight world. But community does arise, clarity is found, and authenticity realized. But then what?... This isn't just a memoir, but a meditation on authenticity and the courage required to be a sexual being in the world.
I gave it five stars because it is smartly written and crafted, entertaining, and full of important wisdom and knowledge presented in a fresh and unexpected way.
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The Invited
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer McMahon
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,304
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,296
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on 44 acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK story so far - but I cannot take the narrator
- De Ole Andreasen en 05-05-19
- The Invited
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer McMahon
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin, Justine Eyre
entertaining, somewhat formulaic
Revisado: 04-19-20
3.5 stars. felt a little formulaic, but if you like the horror/ghost story formula, then you'll likely find this one enjoyable anyway.
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