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Like making a lot of new friends - wisdom, too.

Revisado: 04-29-25

I’m not familiar with this series, so found the beginning a little challenging as so many characters were introduced and it was hard to keep them straight. But once I got the hang of them all, I found a lot to like. The story is a combo of awe and acceptance of life and there are practical life lessons here. The performance is very good with a tone that’s well suited to the story.

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Worked for me - a miracle!

Revisado: 08-18-24

I recently had sciatica so badly, I could barely breathe. For weeks, it was ruining my life. I tried PT, acupuncture, pills, exercises and more - mostly to no avail. I remembered hearing about this book years ago and immediately listened to it. While this sounds hard to believe, I took Dr. Sarno’s advice and by the next day, it was much diminished. In a week, it was totally gone. It’s a shift in thought and it worked perfectly. Hard to explain but surely worth a try for anything back related.

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Funny, touching and inspirational

Revisado: 08-04-24

I totally enjoyed this book and loved Whoopi’s reading which is lively and personal, as if you’re sitting right there with her. Her mother was a fascinating woman who did so much with so little. Whoopi is a true and honest individual and this short book about her life and her family was a joy to listen to.

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Great motivation for writers!

Revisado: 02-29-24

As a slightly lapsed writer, I devoured the honest and extremely helpful insights in this book. The author has so many interesting things to say about the joys and the challenges of the writing life, as do the many well known writers who also add their varied and inspiring thoughts. Loved every word.
I will often think back to what I learned here.

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I will miss Safiya now that I’ve finished the book.

Revisado: 12-09-23

I am a writer and I love the island of Jamaica so this story appealed to me on many levels. A heartfelt memoir about a girl growing up in a fascinating Rastafarian family, both brilliant and brutal. Her struggles and successes were beautifully described in poetic language, as she is a poet. Sinclair’s performance is lovely to listen to and I feel like she’s almost a friend, along with her amazing siblings and her mother. Loved every minute.

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Fascinating history of life during Ming Dynasty

Revisado: 10-05-23

So much amazing detail about women’s lives during this time - the beauty and the horror. Loved learning about these very interesting women and the reader’s performance is excellent.

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Miss them all now that I’ve finished.

Revisado: 09-15-23

The narration by Maura Tierney is excellent and lovely to listen to. (Love the trend of using actors for audio books.) And this sweeping story, while sagged slightly in the middle, turned out to be quite wonderful for most of the story. Not many books make me cry, but the ending of this family story brought me to tears. Sorry to let all these characters go.

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Vivid story of a Florida long gone

Revisado: 07-28-23

I totally enjoyed this audio book and the author’s narration is excellent. I also had a free-range childhood and although very different from hers, I loved hearing her stories. She was such an observant and resilient child through many family ups and downs, often able to adapt and find the good in the family’s changing fortunes. The Florida atmosphere of the 1960s is beautifully described throughout. I finished it today and was sorry to have it end. It’s heartfelt, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always interesting.

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Some interesting, some too “out there.”

Revisado: 01-28-23

I am as open as many New Yorkers but given that there are just three guests, I found this line up hard to relate to. One heterosexual and older, one trans and one non-binary polyamorous unicorn. Liked some of it but just seems to be trying way too hard to be woke. The host is very good.

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Depressing and grim.

Revisado: 11-01-22

While it’s clear Cusk is a skilled writer, this book is a very depressing collection of encounters the main character has during the course of a week as she teaches a writing class in Athens. As the characters were brought to life, each one was worse than the next. Self-involved, almost heartless people who complain constantly about what it takes to raise children, along with some awful accounts of animal cruelty that honestly made me cringe because of the callousness. I basically hated every one of these navel-gazers and wished they would all go away. It’s all very pompous and the reader is very pompous and annoying, as well, making it even worse. I was close to finishing it because she is a good writer, but after many hours listening to them all complain about their lives, I couldn’t even finish the book.

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