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Practical Sound Help

Revisado: 11-30-21

I meet a lot a white people who are mystified by events of 2020. I myself have been on a journey of discovery. This book is so incredibly down to earth basic and practical, a great place for people to understand who truly want to learn more about other people and how they think. This book is a launching place for so many discussions.

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The Bride Test

Revisado: 02-10-21

What is real love? How long does it last? Is marriage worth it? This short fiction examines these questions in the short hours before the wedding of Will and Darla is to take place. I thoroughly enjoyed this great listen.

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Hard Sentences

Revisado: 12-26-20

This is a once in a lifetime encounter with... us. Face to face examining stories of people sentenced by our justice system gave me a chance to examine how I think, how I vote and what I put my energies into. I loved the true life stories and the pain-filled honest narrative that resoundly rings with determination and kindness.

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Seeing The Person

Revisado: 02-07-20

The authors quiet voice initially reflects the educated tones of the brilliant teacher that the character is. This same quiet tone then begins to reflect the objective scientific mind standing apart from self evaluating events she begins to respond differently to. Then that same quiet voice reflects intense tension, anxiety, determination to remain as much a part of her Cambridge/Harvard wife-mother-grandmother role as possible. All in the face of a battle with and against Alzheimers. This brilliant book enabled me to redefine ‘quality of life’ arguments, to see what living inside ones own deteriorating brain might feel like, helped me better grasp how to be WITH someone with Alzheimers. I am certain every journey in this is different but the book voiced sone things caregivers and family and the medical profession might face. But although Alzheimers is tragic, this book wrote honestly the hope that lives in the same place. I rarely give 5 star ratings... a book has to change my mind on something. This one did.

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Learning North

Revisado: 01-13-20

Not another crime story, although thats here. This book is the slow reveal of Alaskan natives and troopers and locals, in a way that lets the never bored listeners see the unspoken and smell the strength of a people group and region in all its complexity. The personal true stories of two men, both who worked on same film set, one turning criminal and one turning sleuth to understand, ended up causing me to pull into a quiet and astonished listening place long after the final chapter in the book had been read.

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Whodunnit?

Revisado: 07-05-19

Story keeps you in its grip until the last sentences, causing you to suspect first one person then another.

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Worthy. Powerful. Listen. Read this book.

Revisado: 06-28-19

This is a shorter excerpt, apparently, of a larger work? Well, I think I will need to add to my reading list, but meanwhile, this 1 hour listen was pure fascination. I learned, never bored for a second, a bit more of our history, things I hope we can, as a nation, grasp and use to 'shift our positions'... some of us, anyway.

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Hearing God

Revisado: 01-24-19

So many questions people have on this topic of hearing God... I love the practical, simple, deep, non-guilting path this author leads the reader on.

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Helping Me Get It

Revisado: 01-01-19

This book objectively helped me redefine racism, helped me remove it from the ‘you are a bad person’ box and see it in myself more clearly than I had. I hope it’s thoughtful presentation of my culture enables me to take on a more humble learners position rather than defensively and arrogantly thinking I am not racist. Sobering, yet powerfully wonderful... like when someone gently tells us the truth: a gift. Just wow.

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Essential

Revisado: 12-13-18

Out of the 80 books I’ve read this year, this one merits 5 stars. It has given me headaches and stomach aches and illuminated what I did not know. It should be required reading for us all.

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