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Complex

Reviewed: 08-28-24

This is a complex story that, perhaps, is better suited to print rather than audio format. I found much of the dialogue stilted and unnatural, but the story gives the listener/reader something to think about in the current political climate.

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Too Long

Reviewed: 08-15-24

As an educator, one who teaches writing, I had great hope for this title. Unfortunately, I found the characters unbelievable, the dialogue, unrealistic. In a fictional world where the goal is the suspension of disbelief, that goal was never met. The bottom line is that The Teacher is about eighty-three chapters too long. I could hardly wait for "The End." Sorry.

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Beautiful

Reviewed: 11-08-23

A beautiful and heart wrenching story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old crossing the desert alone to the United States, la usa. It had me weeping by the end.

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Tedious

Reviewed: 09-30-23

An easy book to put down. While Jay is a list-maker, there is too much repetition of Jay's "gay agenda." It was nice to see a book about gay youth portrayed in such a positive way, but I felt I wasn't respected as a reader/listener with any ability to recall the items on Jay's agenda, especially at the beginning where the list seemed to be enumerated point-by-point ad nauseam. Incidentally, Jif is a peanut butter. A gif, pronounced with a hard G as in good-bye, is a file format.

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Disappointing

Reviewed: 08-06-23

The idea itself, about a black site on American soil, is not bad, but the method and structure of the telling is where the story falls short. Rather than entertaining the reader, it becomes an exercise in tedium.

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Excellent

Reviewed: 06-19-23

A journey across generations and a powerful story of an.unfulfilled love of another time and place. The narrator does an excellent job of adding adding depth and personality to each of the characters.

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Too Coincidental

Reviewed: 06-03-23

Less is a delightful love story, flawed only by the too frequent coincidences that most editors would say canceled the suspension of disbelief. And yet I enjoyed Less’s journey toward love, or perhaps it was just that it resonated with my own loss of a husband and my stumbling efforts to move forward toward an unknown.

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Pleasantly Surprising

Reviewed: 12-28-22

I have to admit that until a few years ago when my own publicist mentioned that if there were justice in the world she would be Mrs. Bono, I had no idea who Bono was or that he was the frontman for a band called U2. My musical tastes have always run along the lines of the great black female singers of the 60s and 70s. People like Gladys Knight, Marilyn McCoo, and Shirley Bassey. People who could sing, enunciate, and hit the high and low notes on cue, and all without looking as if they’re performing fellatio on the microphone. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a U2 song performed, except for those clips included in this memoir. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Bono’s speaking/reading voice was enjoyable to listen to. The song clips convinced me that I may have to broaden my musical inquiry to include a few bits from U2. If I have a bone to pick with the memoir, it would be that it was more political (i.e., preachy) than I would have liked and that it went on and on and on by about 15 chapters longer than necessary. Even so, it was an enjoyable listen and introduced me to someone whose music I might like to explore in more depth.

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Excellent

Reviewed: 05-09-21

An excellent introduction to someone I didn't know about, a fighter for gender equity as well as transgender rights. I'll be investigating more about Pauli Murray.

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Turned It Off

Reviewed: 03-08-19

Simply not an engaging story, often confusing since it appears to begin with a senior Bond and morphs into 007.

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