Aleta Belser
- 3
- reviews
- 2
- helpful votes
- 58
- ratings
-
Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,589
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,009
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,982
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined", Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Dark, thought provoking, sometimes frustrating
- By River Holmes-miller on 06-21-17
- Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Thank you Roxanne Gay!
Reviewed: 06-16-17
While my life experience wasn't exactly the same, Roxanne's voice has voiced so many thoughts I've carried in my head for most of my 60 yrs. Her clear and comforting voice made these words easier to hear spoken aloud. While some may think there are things in this book that are difficult to hear, I believe it only speaks to their lack of life trauma and their denial that bad things happen to children and young women. The global society needs to make bare these crimes in the light of day and perhaps then victims of these traumatic events will have the courage to seek immediate help.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,935
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,594
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,556
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dazzling, Romantic, and Witty
- By Anna-Bo-Banana on 04-28-14
- Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Enjoyable narrator
Reviewed: 07-21-15
While I enjoyed the narration of this book the story itself seemed a bit shallow.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,818
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,386
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,348
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dazzling, Romantic, and Witty
- By Anna-Bo-Banana on 04-28-14
- Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Enjoyable narrator
Reviewed: 07-21-15
While I enjoyed the narration of this book the story itself seemed a bit shallow.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!