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Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- De: Johann Hari
- Narrado por: Johann Hari
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
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Needs a little sharpening
- De LEE en 02-01-22
- Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- De: Johann Hari
- Narrado por: Johann Hari
Thought provoking
Revisado: 03-19-25
Did I agree with all of Hari’s premises or conclusions? No, not all. But he presented multiple sides to various issues, which I appreciate, and much of what he presents is very difficult to argue against. He’s also a compelling and engaging writer. I think reading this alongside Abigail Shrier’s ‘Bad Therapy’ provides both a good balance and also strengthens both cases as regards childhood and how our society stifles kids’ growth. I also read this close on the heels of Postman’s classic ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ and wow, talk about overlap. Fascinating. Wherever you may be on the political spectrum, I recommend this. It’s very broad and hits on many topics related to our collective loss of focus in a self-evaluating way. At times, it felt like a rallying cry that I heartily agreed with; at other times I found myself arguing with the book. A worthwhile and even important read, IMO; glad I read it.
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Jane and Prudence
- De: Barbara Pym
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of 30, lives in London, has an office job, and is self-sufficient and fiercely independent - until Jane decides her friend should be married. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver.
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Ruined by narrator
- De TX lilbit en 07-27-20
- Jane and Prudence
- De: Barbara Pym
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
Annoying narration; okay story
Revisado: 01-12-25
After adoring ‘Excellent Women,’ I had high hopes for this, my second Barbara Pym novel. Alas. I found it less funny, less engaging, with less likable characters. Perhaps it was the annoyingly contrived British accent of the narrator (surely an American!) that turned me off at the beginning and kept tweaking my nerves with every pronunciation of “back” as “bock” and “Donne” as “Don” (yes, the poet!). I made it through, but will avoid another read by this narrator if she’s doing a British accent. Otherwise, her reading was good—I’d just love for her to avoid enunciating every “a” as “ah.” And the “curate” who assists a vicar is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable, NOT the second (that would be something one does to items in a museum, say). And for goodness’ sake, British women don’t constantly, excessively draw out their words so church is “chuh…ch” and silence is “silennn…tce.” I’m being too harsh, undoubtedly. Most of the narration was fine, it was just punctuated with so many of these annoying little errors that I couldn’t relax into it. The novel itself was okay; not my fav.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- De The Story Adict en 09-13-17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
Compelling story
Revisado: 10-26-24
The story drew me in, with interesting characters; I prefer closed door stories but the sex scenes mainly didn’t feel gratuitous and were quickly skippable. Good tension, character development, and story arc.
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The Toxic War on Masculinity
- How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
- De: Nancy R. Pearcey
- Narrado por: Susan Hanfield
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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How did the idea arise that masculinity is dangerous and destructive? Bestselling author Nancy Pearcey leads you on a fascinating excursion through American history to discover why the script for masculinity turned toxic—and how to fix it. Pearcey then turns to surprising findings from sociology. Religion is often cast as a cause of domestic abuse. But research shows that authentically committed Christian men test out as the most loving and engaged husbands and fathers. They have the lowest rates of divorce and domestic violence of any group in America.
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A lot of good stuff, with one issue.
- De Jared Hageman en 07-26-23
- The Toxic War on Masculinity
- How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
- De: Nancy R. Pearcey
- Narrado por: Susan Hanfield
Thoughtful and nuanced
Revisado: 02-04-24
I thought this was an excellent discussion that highlighted the sharp contrast between our society’s definition of a “real man” (basically toxic masculinity) and the Bible’s definition of what it means to be a true man—a servant of others. I particularly loved the history Pearcey explained. I was relieved that she avoided gender stereotypes and also addressed abuse. A solid, thought-provoking, helpful book.
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