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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
- How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
- De: Margareta Magnusson
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382
In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner rather than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs listeners to embrace minimalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Title, Bad Book
- De Jane en 01-03-18
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
- How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
- De: Margareta Magnusson
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
A compassionate explanation of the purpose of death cleaning
Revisado: 08-08-24
This is a lovely overview of the principles of and reasons for doing your own death cleaning - decluttering your own possessions to make life simpler for those you leave behind.
I especially appreciated the concept of getting rid of things that aren’t important or valuable so that your family can easily identify what IS important or valuable.
The performance is calm and calming.
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Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- De: Brian Klaas
- Narrado por: Brian Klaas
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This book should be listed as fiction
- De Ned D. May en 05-29-24
- Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- De: Brian Klaas
- Narrado por: Brian Klaas
Contingent vs convergent
Revisado: 02-03-24
Why I am me and you are you, and why it matters that we are.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,198
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,024
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Badly Abridged
- De Carol L. en 09-19-06
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Excellent
Revisado: 03-04-23
A well-reasoned theory on why certain cultures developed more complex societies than others . Commenters call it racist missed the point. It is anything but.
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An Embarrassment of Itches
- Ginny Reese Mysteries, Book 1
- De: M. K. Dean
- Narrado por: Jillian Yetter
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
As a house-call vet, Ginny Reese has seen her share of the weird and wacky. But nothing in her previous experience could have prepared her to find one of her clients floating in her own swimming pool. Local artist Amanda Kelly was extremely wealthy with her share of secrets. By naming Ginny as her heir, not only did she make Ginny the number one suspect, but she painted a big bull's eye on her friend's back as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Amanda_thebookwitch en 01-22-23
- An Embarrassment of Itches
- Ginny Reese Mysteries, Book 1
- De: M. K. Dean
- Narrado por: Jillian Yetter
Excellent little mystery
Revisado: 02-19-23
I enjoyed this book a great deal more than I expected to. Well-written, funny, not too gory or scary. A delightful little cozy mystery populated with interesting characters and lots of puppies and kittens. ;-)
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Holding the Line
- Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department
- De: Geoffrey Berman
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Berman
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 905
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 900
Ascending to the leadership role of US Attorney for the Southern District, which includes Manhattan and several counties to the north, is a capstone to any legal career: it entails guiding a team of the best lawyers in America in selecting and winning cases that often have global import. Geoffrey Berman was honored to be tapped for the job by Donald Trump in 2018. The manner in which Trump had dispatched his predecessor Preet Bharara was troubling, but the institution was fabled for its independence. Surely he could manage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Story of SDNY JD during Trump Years
- De WLC en 09-14-22
- Holding the Line
- Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department
- De: Geoffrey Berman
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Berman
Interesting Insight
Revisado: 10-02-22
This book about the author’s stint as US Attorney for the SDNY gives some insider information regarding a corrupt administration and the inexcusable conduct of Bill Barr during his second tenure as USAG.
The author is a bit self-serving, but he’s a lawyer and I don’t think they can help being so.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- De: Gail Honeyman
- Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66,600
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60,154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59,900
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
- De N. Thompson en 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- De: Gail Honeyman
- Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron
Smart, funny, compassionate, disturbing
Revisado: 05-15-17
Great read (or listen). This story made me snort, chuckle, chortle, and LOL (something the heroine would hate!).
Well-written and the first of its kind for me, at least. I highly recommend.
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The Secrets of Wishtide
- De: Kate Saunders
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,552
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,129
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- De Episteme en 12-31-16
- The Secrets of Wishtide
- De: Kate Saunders
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
Lovely
Revisado: 04-18-17
A proper novel, where the good end happily and bad end unhappily... mostly.
I hate to try new authors without a really good reference from someone I trust, and I don't trust very many people at all when it comes to new authors. So I was pleasantly surprised to find this book well-written, neither overly libertine nor overtly moralistic. The main character is a proper lady of her time, but one harder in herself than others, which I always admire.
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