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Barbra Streisand Recalls Her Career, Life and Times With Honesty and Grace

Revisado: 11-22-23

Listening to Barbra Streisand narrate her memoir while also following the e-book version (which has the bonus of photos) made for a long deeply satisfying experience that I recommend.

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Miranda & Olivo Bring Oscar Wao Back To Life

Revisado: 11-01-17

Read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao when it first came out.

Decided to revisit it when I saw there was a new audiobook read by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Stone at a much faster pace. So happy I did. Their style and timing breaths new life into this multi: tongued, layered and storied novel.

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Tallent Has Talent

Revisado: 09-05-17

Would like to give My Absolute Darling 41/2 Stars, will go with 5. Gabriel Tallent writes beautifully about the wonderful and awful things his many named character, Julia/Turtle/Kibble, lives through as a teenager on her veteran alcoholic grandfather's rundown yet substantial coastal property on the Medicino Coast bordered by National Parks with her isolated, enraged, firearms-devotee, carpenter, eco-fatalist widowed father, Martin. Tallent takes us digging in the dirt, fishing for ells under coastal rocks, foraging/hunting/cooking dinner and stealthily following two teenage boys who lost their way in the Medicino woods. And thru his strong, nature & tool savvy literal-minded heroine we experience Martin's love and hatred through their daily life.

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A Joyous Outer-Borough Biography

Revisado: 03-16-17

Tara Clancy tells us her and her family's story as though we were on the next barstool in her favorite Queens tavern. We get to know Tara's: raucous foul mouthed Italian grandmother, lost tennis balls retrieving grandfather, sensitive hard drinking policeman father, independent cleaning lady - college graduate mother, mother's summers in the Hamptons boyfriend, kid and grown-up friends and the wisecracking, fiercely loved and loving girl to woman, herself.

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A Galloping Good Read

Revisado: 01-31-17

Sometimes one has a need for a traditional 'good read', Brat Farrar is one of those books. The story is well constructed, peopled with interesting characters and placed on a traditional English horse breeding farm. It is is an all-together deeply satisfying story.

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Good Start, Refresher or Hole Filler of a "Classic" College Education

Revisado: 09-11-15

The 36 books varied widely. The lecturers did too. For the most part lecturers well structured and interesting. Felt I did learn new things and was reminded of things I used to know.

If you have not had a classic college education this is a very good place to start. If you have these lectures are a good refresher. Or if your education was something in-between these lectures will begin to help you fill in the holes.

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Author Keeping Message Short If Not Sweet

Revisado: 05-13-15

Author longtime expert on helping people - including himself -- deal procrastination in a concise clear way. Key to it all just start and keep going.

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Just Enough & Homey Beauty Organizing Keys

Revisado: 05-12-15

Sandra Felton a once messy, talks about what her years of dealing with her own and then others' struggled, set-backs and ultimate successes has taught her strive for a nice looking home achieved thru just enough house work.

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Strange Music -- Good Story

Revisado: 04-07-15

Production decision to augment voice with schmaltzy movie music showed a lack of faith in the strength of the story and the storyteller. A sad decision.

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A Comedy Writer-Performer's Take on Life

Revisado: 04-05-15

Amy Poehler's autobiography, Yes Please, although seemingly tangential is laser-focused on growing up and becoming a comedic writer and performer who strives to both get laughs and be a decent person. No small feat. I feel she succeeded.

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