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A Year of Marvellous Ways
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A Year of Marvellous Ways is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller When God Was a Rabbit. Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone on a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something--she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.
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Great story-telling
- By Carol on 07-27-15
- A Year of Marvellous Ways
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
The poetry
Reviewed: 06-04-24
A beautifully integrated text and performance .I listened from beginning to end through the night and tend to listen again today.A genuine work of art.Very keen to hear more of this writter and love the sensitivity of the reading.
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem. Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn't necessarily know how to do so.
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Sublime
- By Anne Hill on 11-23-22
- Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Sublime
Reviewed: 11-23-22
I have spent years wondering if there would ever be a book that I could say felt like it was written straight to me. I have always felt that I was out of my depth and excluded from the right to say that this is the creative world I belong in, a place that was like a first language, an indigenous home. I am so grateful to have been able to hear this, sit with it, and listen as if alongside a friend. As a teenager I wanted more than anything to write poetry, but part of me was limited by a lack of informed understanding. More correctly, the only thing I had was intuition. This is a beautiful and precious book.It has opened and lit my world.
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Awareness Games
- Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy
- By: Brian Tom O'Connor
- Narrated by: Brian Tom O'Connor
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Awareness Games teaches ways to play with your mind to point it toward the infinite well of happiness and joy that is within. Play with pure awareness, and discover the background of all experience, where happiness is hiding in plain sight. Create more joy. Uncover the secret of happiness. Play Awareness Games.
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Very good book on
- By Gambit on 01-12-19
- Awareness Games
- Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy
- By: Brian Tom O'Connor
- Narrated by: Brian Tom O'Connor
It works.
Reviewed: 04-08-22
This is the most acessible resource I have found after years of trying everything within reach to rest my mind. The excersises are simply explained.There is an absence of ego and lots of low key positive processes.Highly recommend trying these out.I woke up rested and feeling upskilled to get through another day.It is cheap It is clear and it is delivered with kindness.Outstanding. And I have spent the last 35 years seeking something so pure and simple.Much gratitude.
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The Four-Gospel Journey as a Guide for the Spiritual Life
- By: Alexander J. Shaia
- Narrated by: Alexander J. Shaia
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Through this special 18-lecture course, explore a powerful four-fold ancient pattern found throughout life, Christian worship, and many revered spiritual exercises. This pattern appears to underlie the choice of four Gospels and their sequencing into the three-year Sunday reading cycles. The four Gospels, when read through this lens, move beyond separate accounts of Jesus to become a seamless spiritual guide for daily life.
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Worth a credit
- By Anne Hill on 12-07-17
Worth a credit
Reviewed: 12-07-17
What did you love best about The Four-Gospel Journey as a Guide for the Spiritual Life?
This is a highly informed and sensitive perception of the Gospel presented in a very intimate way. Although a 'different' take, it is firmly grounded in a spiritual practice that is relevant to 'how' we read as well as 'what' we read.It is very much a contemporary take on timeless reality.
What other book might you compare The Four-Gospel Journey as a Guide for the Spiritual Life to and why?
'Surprised by Joy' by C.S Lewis, has a similar sense of the personal revelations experienced by an individual being shared.
What about Dr. Alexander J. Shaia PhD’s performance did you like?
Alexander, is a natural teacher. He encourages the listener to think freshly rather than accept instruction. There is a poetic flavor to his expression of ideas that is both hooked into past thought, insight into history and universal grace .
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I consider this an excellent introduction to thinking and feeling the Gospel .
Any additional comments?
It blows away simplistic readings and helps reveal a deeply cultural context without becoming only 'history.' I think the writers own family history has allowed him to be able to act like a translator. There is an emotional edge that touches the heart. There is a tenderness and vulnerability that embraces the "I am with you."
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Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
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An Epic Medical Novel
- By Audiophile on 07-11-09
- Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Worth the time
Reviewed: 03-23-15
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This book is the result of a genuine knowledge of place,experience and 'bigger ' ideas as well as creativity and skill. The writers humanity and perception is expressed with an unusual level of poetic insight and compassion.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Cutting for Stone?
The book works as a collection of vivd incidents happening over a long time-but each section reads as fresh and in the moment.
What about Sunil Malhotra’s performance did you like?
Superb-believable and compassionate.Vivd medical descriptions were read with a tinge of compassion and insight.
Who was the most memorable character of Cutting for Stone and why?
I wouldn't like to choose one character.The medical centre was like a character.
Any additional comments?
It has taken me months to listen to this book.It is worth absorbing slowly and attentively.
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