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Back Roads and Better Angels
- A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
- By: Francis S. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs
- Unabridged
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A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation's first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco. Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land, they hope to see more clearly what holds the country together-and how we can keep it together, even amidst political divisions that have grown increasingly rancorous, bitter, and exhausting.
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So many roads!
- By Hank Greenberg on 09-30-24
- Back Roads and Better Angels
- A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
- By: Francis S. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Lincoln in 2020
Reviewed: 03-20-25
I really enjoyed Barry's journey along the Lincoln Highway from September 11, 2020 through Election Day. While we all know the turmoil didn't stop after November 7, 2020, I wished the book had ended there. Barry's voice was strong through the Lincoln and date parallels as he and his wife traveled during the still thick of the COVID pandemic. They found living and concrete memorials to Lincoln on their journey and shared the history of the Lincoln Highway. While there were elements of his southern sojourn that were interesting in the context of Lincoln and the pandemic, I felt it went on too long. I wonder if I might have felt differently about reliving January 6 at a different time
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Rice, Noodle, Fish
- Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)
- By: Matt Goulding
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice. In this 5,000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura temples, and teahouses of Japan, Matt Goulding, cocreator of the enormously popular Eat This, Not That! book series, navigates the intersection between food, history, and culture, creating one of the most ambitious and complete books ever written about Japanese culinary culture from the Western perspective.
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Starts strong tapers off
- By Craig Bryan on 01-02-21
- Rice, Noodle, Fish
- Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)
- By: Matt Goulding
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Eat this book!
Reviewed: 02-03-25
A fun, quick listen where Goulding provided an in depth look at several regions of Japan, their cuisines and how those cuisines have shaped the region/Japan and the world beyond Japan. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on okonomiyaki (team Osaka) and the ways in which gaijin can have an impact through their own cuisines. Especially enjoyed his time with the families in each region and the quest for the perfect kaiseki in Kyoto. Good read, but you will be hungry after.
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Rediscovering Travel
- A Guide for the Globally Curious
- By: Seth Kugel
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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By captivating millions during his six-year, 50-country tenure as The New York Times' "Frugal Traveler", Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly infinite booby traps of on-the-grid tourism. In a book with widespread cultural reverberations, Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task, determined to reignite humanity's age-old sense of adventure.
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Intriguing look at the travel industry
- By TravellingCari on 01-21-25
- Rediscovering Travel
- A Guide for the Globally Curious
- By: Seth Kugel
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Intriguing look at the travel industry
Reviewed: 01-21-25
Authenticity in reviews. Ethics in travel. Among the topics Kugel covered along with a pseudo memoir of his time as the Frugal Traveler
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And Then You're Dead
- What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara
- By: Cody Cassidy, Paul Doherty
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine. What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China? Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco's famed Exploratorium Museum, and writer Cody Cassidy explore the real science behind these and other fantastical scenarios.
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perfect for a precocious 9 year old boy
- By Kerith Strano Taylor on 05-15-17
- And Then You're Dead
- What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara
- By: Cody Cassidy, Paul Doherty
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Gleefully gruesome
Reviewed: 10-30-24
Gleefully gruesome is accurate. Fun, light read about some "real life" scenarios and their after live, such as becoming perfume after being eaten by a sperm whale. Appreciated the real life wisdom, such as how unlikely you are to be bitten by shark vs. injured en route to beach.
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Call You When I Land
- A Memoir
- By: Nikki Vargas
- Narrated by: Nikki Vargas
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She’d settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaws of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn’t shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn’t look like her. And so, she bought a plane ticket: first to Cartagena. Then to Panama. Then to Iguazú.
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Not very deep, not very interesting.
- By Sheila on 06-23-24
- Call You When I Land
- A Memoir
- By: Nikki Vargas
- Narrated by: Nikki Vargas
I see myself in Nikki
Reviewed: 10-08-24
What a wonderful story of growth, and travel in the physical and personal sense. Audio is good quality and pacing is excellent
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Lies Across America
- What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
- By: Dr. James Loewen
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
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Lies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation's public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way American listeners see their country.
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some necessary repetition
- By TravellingCari on 09-20-24
- Lies Across America
- What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
- By: Dr. James Loewen
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
some necessary repetition
Reviewed: 09-20-24
This is the 2019 audio version of Loewen's mammoth 1999 book. As the chapters are meant to be standalones, there's a lot of repetition where events such as Charlottesville are relevant. That said, I really enjoyed this book. There were some stories and markers I'm familiar with, but many more I'm not and appreciated his choice to not start from a Pilgrim POV.
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Thanks, Obama
- My Hopey, Changey White House Years
- By: David Litt
- Narrated by: David Litt
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people - 20-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter) yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those 20-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011 he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history.
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A Refreshingly Irreverent Political Memoir
- By RLL on 10-09-17
- Thanks, Obama
- My Hopey, Changey White House Years
- By: David Litt
- Narrated by: David Litt
Thanks, Obama
Reviewed: 08-26-24
I've heard a handful of these stories in the other books I've read by former Obama staff and I think I liked the stories better in that context. A full book of Litt is a LOT of Litt and not a lot of Obama. That said, this was an interesting look at the career arc of someone who fell in love with Obama early in the campaign who eventually spent minutes in "The Oval" with Obama. I'm not sure if it's because working in politics has never appealed, but the moments where I think I was supposed to be jealous of Litt for his access just didn't land well. He talked about humility from his boss' edits, but it didn't really come through in the book. I miss the Obama years, and I did appreciate how Litt connected the dots of how we got here - the epilogue was ~ 12 months after he left his job and a week into the Trump presidency - and throughlines such as Stacey/Zoe Lihn and the real world importance of the ACA.
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Nights at Rizzoli
- By: Felice Picano
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis. Gregory Peck, Mick Jagger, S. J. Perelman, I. M. Pei. Philip Johnson, Josephine Baker, John Lennon: They, and so many more who made New York City the center of the universe in the 1970s, all had one thing in common besides their adopted hometown - they shopped at a legendary palace of books, music, and art: Rizzoli Books at 712 Fifth Avenue. There, Kennedys and Rockefellers mingled with tourists and "regular" customers under the watchful gaze of sophisticated employees.
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The final 2 words of this book are its review
- By R. Klein on 07-27-21
- Nights at Rizzoli
- By: Felice Picano
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
Fun look at a world that was
Reviewed: 06-18-24
Helping Rose Kennedy with photos for her memoir because he'd been such a help to "Mrs. Onassis", helping Elton John furnish a flat, stealing a cab from Angela Lansbury. All part of Picano's rise through management at the original Rizzoli bookstore at the time that it was pivoting from Italian to English books and beginning to feature art. Simultaneously, the story of the post Stonewall, pre AIDS gay NYC that brought the author into contact with Marsha P. Johnson and the changing West Village. Enjoyed the info on Hamilton's ghost, as well as how Jane, Christoper etc. Streets got their names. A solid read, although I found the narrator grating at times.
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Does This Bible Belt Make Me Look Gay?
- My Tales of Coming Out, Christianity and Southern Culture
- By: Krista Doyle
- Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Krista Doyle grew up in a small town in Louisiana where everyone was a gossip and a devout church goer. She attended church every Sunday where she listened to her grandfather preach from the stage, where she sang hymns from the audience as her mother led the choir, and where she was strictly taught that everything was black and white, right and wrong. So - how was Krista to cope with being a lesbian?
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Loved It
- By Lifeisshort on 08-09-15
- Does This Bible Belt Make Me Look Gay?
- My Tales of Coming Out, Christianity and Southern Culture
- By: Krista Doyle
- Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge
Fun Quick Look at Doyle’s life
Reviewed: 06-11-24
While Doyle is younger than I am, we have a lot of the same cultural touch points and appreciated her journey through the highs and lows. Found reader to be a little over the top. Would have liked it in Doyle’s own voice
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Why We March
- Celebrating 50 Years of Pride
- By: The Audible Editors
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 28 mins
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Exactly one year after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, the very first pride parade kicked off on Christopher Street with a march up New York's Sixth Avenue and into the Sheep Meadow in Central Park. They marched to demonstrate against decades of systemic discrimination, inequality, and harassment. Fifty years later, New York City was preparing for the biggest pride celebration yet when COVID-19 struck. Undeterred, the global LGBTQIA+ community transformed this special anniversary into a global virtual celebration.
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Way way too short
- By Derpus McDerp on 06-28-20
- Why We March
- Celebrating 50 Years of Pride
- By: The Audible Editors
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Pride soundbite
Reviewed: 06-10-24
A virtual celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Pride March due to COVID. I appreciated some of the stories, especially why Pride and not Power (everyone had Pride, not all in the LGTBQ universe had the power) but on the whole felt them too short and found myself wanting more. Free with Audible+ so no loss of value
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