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Totally Great and Authentic

Revisado: 08-06-24

I loved this book, and fell in love with Jones even more while listening to her extremely real voice telling her extremeky real stories. I could listen to her funny, human vignettes all day long.

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wow, you must listen

Revisado: 11-01-19

Every day I would get excited to go to work so I could listen to this sequel to The Handmaids Tale book and TV show. It has so much terrorfying yet satisfying continuations of those beloved, and not so beloved, characters' stories. And the ending...wow.

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read this book

Revisado: 10-09-19

I really liked so many of the details in this, though I would have liked her to be clearer about reading quotes from others. I kind of expected this to read like a blog, but it was researched and full of feminist analysis. Every girl and woman (and man) might benefit greatly by reading a book telling us why uppity women need to be given room to breathe. It's inspirational without being too hokey.

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Great FBI Stories, but Feels Unfinished

Revisado: 03-29-19

I really felt deep fascination with the author's stories of learning how to be an agent while working on Russian Mob extortion cases which obviously makes him a great choice to run the FBI probe into how Russia meddled in our election. I also liked hearing more behind the scenes details about him being in charge of the Boston Marathon bombings. The details about the Trump Russian connection in 2016, was much thinner. That's an unfinished story, for sure.

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it helps

Revisado: 04-11-18

this book helped me feel a little less despair about trump even now in 2018

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I enjoyed this

Revisado: 03-12-18

Issa Rae is so funny and so genuine, I didn't want her story to end. I'm glad it was in her voice since that's so important to her shows as well.

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I hate loving this

Revisado: 02-10-18

Entertaining and probably more true than Wolff is capable of supporting, this book is guilty pleasure embodied.

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Good, though it kind of skims over some details.

Revisado: 12-13-16

Good, but I was hoping for an opus of details and difficulties. Over far too soon (damn those journalistic writers with tight copy).

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Good, and different from the Netflix show

Revisado: 09-17-14

Even though the writing is simply rendered, I really couldn't wait to keep listening to this, and so made up reasons to go places in my car for a month. Piper's vignettes about her year+ in federal prison, and the connections she made with so many different kinds of women, is a book that focuses on the women who help each other rather than hate each other, and so my students would call it "uplifting." The craziness of our prison system, of our need to punish rather than to rehabilitate people who might actually want to find a way forward, is one important theme in this book, but the micro stories about each inmate are more compelling than Piper's philosophizing. One of the previous reviewers said the book was like the Netflix show, but that is not the case. The book doesn't have the larger, and more dramatic narrative arcs and sustained dramas we see in the show. Enemies on the show are more often than not women Piper ends up needing and respecting in the book which is refreshing if not dramatic. The narrator of this book is exceptional with her ability to play the cowering Piper and the assertive and wise Russian cook along with everyone else.

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Love the performers

Revisado: 09-17-14

This is a dramatization of some of the court transcripts from the California Prop 8 case that ultimately saw the demise of Prop 8's hate and illogic in favor of legalized gay marriage in California. The win doesn't mean that we've won everywhere, however, but the actors in this are having a great time performing all the different pro and con players in the case, and the audience loves it. This has great energy, humor, and moments of deep sorrow for those who have had to wait so long to finally be allowed to marry. But it also gives the rest of us hope who don't have marriage yet.

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