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Remarkable

Revisado: 04-04-24

insightful and deeply thought provoking,; a must read exploration of what it means to be disabled in today's economic and cultural reality.

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Such Strength

Revisado: 04-29-22

Michael J. Fox is not someone whose life and career I have tracked in any way, yet listening to this narration of his most recent memoir, I feel as though I've somehow always known him. His physical strength is impressive as is his zest for life. God should send us more people like Mike, the world would be a happier, funnier and more adventurous place if that were so.

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Loss and Its Many Gifts

Revisado: 04-16-22

Frank Bruni takes us on a gentle and meaningful journey into his personal loss of eyesight before turning his gaze upon us, we readers, focusing on the many and differing losses that all of us come to experience andl share as mutual travelers on our paths through life.

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Pioneer of Collective Reflection

Revisado: 03-25-22

In this moving memoir Ai Weiwei takes us deep into the heart of his lived experience as an artist, activist and citizen of China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The loving and brutally honest way he describes the life of his father, a poet and artist in a land that looks on such individuals with deep suspicion and animosity, is beautifully, hauntingly written and translated by Allan H. Barr. . The narration, by David Shih is genius.

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Is That Chiffon You Are Wearing?

Revisado: 02-14-22

The only way to experience Andre Leon Talley's memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, is to listen to this passionate and tragic figure read it to you himself. No one else could do it justice, and I'm sure he would agree with me. Mr. Talley passed away on January 18, 2022 at the age of 73. His long time friend, Maureen Dowd, wrote a piece about him and their relationship for the New York Times titled Farewell, Andre the Glorious not long after his passing. I highly recommend reading this loving yet honest ode to their years long, up and down friendship. It helps illuminate what Mr. Talley himself will tell you in his own inimitable way over the course of this brief missive on his life and career as a fashion journalist. From the parental abandonment and sexual abuse he suffered as a child to the endless love of his grandmother and his nearly life long friendships with so many of the great designers and taste makers of the last century, Andre slowly reveals himself to the listener. Let Andre take your hand escort you through the perilously harrowing and rarified world of haute couture. You will never read Vogue magazine or stream the Met Gala on YouTube the same way again.

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Boring?

Revisado: 01-25-22

I so enjoyed The Martian by this author. It had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. So, I wonder, what happened with this book? Although I did listen all the way through, I never felt fully engaged with the story line or the characters. The narration was difficult for me, particularly the women's voices. I wonder if I would have enjoyed this book if I had read it instead of listening to it on Audible? In the future I will give that a try and see if the old magic that only Andy Weir can cast come back for me.

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Brilliant

Revisado: 12-29-21

Ross Douthat brilliantly describes the experience of chronic illness exposing his soul to us in vivid and moving description of his suffering. He gives us a clear eyed view of how chronic illness changes a person and how, if you are lucky, the illness itself changes as the struggle to get better, if not well, is waged from day to day.

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Women Lead the Way

Revisado: 06-09-21

Walter Isaacson does a brilliant job grasping and explaining the complex science of CRISPR as well as humanizing the men and women of science that made it possible for us to benefit from messenger RNA research in fighting the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Without Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier much of this work would still be in the developmental stages in laboratories around the world. Women are indeed leading the way in this area of science.

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Big Other or BFF

Revisado: 04-15-21

Shoshana Zuboff, a social psychologist trained at Harvard, is a brilliant author and deep thinker (her undergraduate work in philosophy was done at the prestigious philosophy department at the University of Chicago) who asks three important questions for the digital age - who knows; who decides; and, who decides who decides. These inquiries, which are omnipresent throughout this book, pertain to the ubiquitous presence of digital data gathering, analysis and monetization that affect all of us by influencing what we buy, what news we see, who we vote for and so much more. This is long recording, but very much worth the time it takes to listen carefully and understand just how we got to where we are and where we might end up if we are not mindful of our humanity in the face of constant surveillance.

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Understand Ulysses For the First Time

Revisado: 02-27-21

If you too have yearned to read James Joyce's Ulysses and derive some meaning, if not actual understanding, from the words your eyes are passing over, you are going to love this Great Courses offering by Professor James A. W. Hefferman as much as I did. Professor Hefferman doesn't lecture, he performs and animates Ulysses such that you long to go back and reread each chapter over and over as the veil of opacity is slowly lifted and suddenly Joyce's humor, depth, humanity and understanding of the writings of the ancients that inspired this work become fully visible. I could not have anticipated how much I would enjoy and derive from this course. It is truly one of the best I have ever taken.

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