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Beautiful Scars
- Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home
- By: Tom Wilson
- Narrated by: Tom Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
"Bunny told me there were secrets about me that she would take to the grave, secrets that no one would ever hear, including me...." Tom Wilson always felt something wasn't quite right. His parents, Bunny and George, were much older than other kids' parents. There were no baby photos of him in the house. At school, classmates called him Indian, despite his parents' Irish-Quebecois background. And as he got older, friends, lovers and even family members remarked on his uncanny resemblance to Bunny's closest relative, her niece Janie Lazare....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Good Memoir
- By Paul on 12-10-20
- Beautiful Scars
- Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home
- By: Tom Wilson
- Narrated by: Tom Wilson
Powerful real life story
Reviewed: 05-04-19
Too often we think of the lives of performing artists in terms of the glamour, and the glitz and the beauty of it all. Tom story “Beautiful Scars” takes us beyond that glamour, beyond that glory, into the reality of the Canadian performing artist trying to make his way in the musical world and share it with us so many of the pitfalls, challenges, and heartbreak that is the cost of that world. More than that, it is the story of Canada. Our folk music industry, the reality of pursuing your passions, your creative gifts, and the unknowing. All of the experience as we try and meld those gifts into the Creator’s vision for us. I love listening to Tom read his own works through the entirety. I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Tom at the launch of our recent Artist Against Racism (aarcharity.org) campaign in March in Toronto. He captured my interest intrigue then, and I love how he shared his story through the book in such an easy to hear, easy to understand language, peppered with the humor and the reality that all Canadians can appreciate. Loved it. “I have told my truth the way I remember it and everything else is bullshit “ words all of us can benefit from embracing. Loved it all!
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- By: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27,558
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27,294
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I both love and hate this life changing book
- By Rebecca on 02-22-15
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- By: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
A different way of looking at tidying up and organizing your life
Reviewed: 07-02-15
Have just finished listening, so haven't had the chance to put Marie's philosophy into action, but what she suggests really makes good sense. I'm so in need of organizing and simplifying my life, and I think some of the many tools and suggestions she offers will help me to do that. Will get back when I know better :)
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