Jessica Zhang
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Break the Mold
- 5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health
- By: Dr. Jill Crista
- Narrated by: Dr. Jill Crista
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49
Is mold making you sick? Do you have mysterious health problems with no explanations? Mold can lurk without a trace or scent. If this is happening where you spend time, you could be sick from mold and not even know it. Find out how to spot mold sickness. Use the questionnaire inside to see if you’re an unsuspecting target of mold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great tools to have on hand!
- By Courtney Krempa on 02-04-23
- Break the Mold
- 5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health
- By: Dr. Jill Crista
- Narrated by: Dr. Jill Crista
This Book is Life Saving
Reviewed: 07-10-23
This describes me to a T. The handouts are really helpful as well. I’m very thankful.
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Monsters
- A Fan's Dilemma
- By: Claire Dederer
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Story4 out of 5 stars 219
Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adresses my many questions
- By Syd Young on 11-01-23
- Monsters
- A Fan's Dilemma
- By: Claire Dederer
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Have Some Problematic Assumptions
Reviewed: 05-19-23
An earnest attempt but makes grand statements such as we are secretly attracted to “bad people” and that said people are “monsters” as the title implies. It also carefully assumes the voice and position of the “virtuous white woman” which is unnecessary if not detrimental to the overall argument.
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Wish You Were Here
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,066
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,744
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,690
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos - days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Jodi + excellent narration = 5+++
- By Susie Q on 12-03-21
- Wish You Were Here
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
White Lady Savior Fantasy
Reviewed: 12-26-21
This book comes across as a archetypical parody of a white lady savior fantasy. It’s an example of all things you shouldn’t do as a white female writer starting from small things like generalizing black people’s experiences during the covid, portraying herself as an enlightened white savior to the native girl and her family, calling Latinos and Latinas “Hispanic”, etc.
On top of that her complete lack of self awareness of her woes and concerns in a time of covid is mind blowing. Also does not come across as a compelling New Yorker character.
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Can't Even
- How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
- By: Anne Helen Petersen
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 433
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 431
Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, in Can’t Even, BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Yes. We Millenials are Entitled
- By chris boutte on 10-10-20
- Can't Even
- How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
- By: Anne Helen Petersen
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
Read Her Article Instead
Reviewed: 09-18-21
TL;DR Read her article instead of this book. The article opens up the conversation to this very important topic succinctly while this book does not.
I appreciate the analysis of historical context of how Boomers screws millennials over.
I don’t appreciate the whiny and wispy academic tone. Like a lot of academic written books, it falls into the Suffer Porn category that borders on being in love with the tragedy. (The audio performance reflects this tone as well and became increasingly insufferable.)
It also falls into the common pitfall for books written by liberal arts academics—an overwhelming amount of theorizing and generalizing without sufficient data to back it up. Data is presented but fails to support the grand theorization she’s making.
Lastly, while it’s a popular trend in the liberal arts to bring in the personal and make space for one’s own narrative, I find the blending of her own experience, her theory and the data unconvincing and distracting.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,621
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,227
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,229
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen!
- By cathy hunt on 09-09-21
- Beautiful World, Where Are You
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Overrated Prose and Navel Gazing Material
Reviewed: 09-16-21
This book (and the other two from this writer) is a Lost Leonardo situation. Or perhaps the vacation town that everyone goes to in Corporate.
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 553
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Story4 out of 5 stars 490
As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
- Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
This Book Needs Trigger Warnings for Child Abuse
Reviewed: 12-20-20
This book needs to include trigger warnings for child abuse. The author approaches the topic adeptly, so adeptly that the child abuse suddenly dawns upon you and is quite shocking.
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