Jacqueline Freeman
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66,733
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60,277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60,023
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
- By N. Thompson on 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Almost asked for a refund
Reviewed: 11-27-24
The start of the book was slow, but necessary. By the end of the book, I cared a lot for the characters. Excellent development.
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Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48,308
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41,585
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,245
"I’m James Taylor and I’m a professional autobiographer", says the celebrated folk singer at the start of this tender audio memoir. Through decades of music by one of the best-selling musicians of all time, who created classics like "Fire and Rain" and "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor has doled out his history in the poetry of his work. Taylor says his early life is, "the source of many of my songs", and Break Shot is a tour of his first 21 years in rich, new detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love His Music, Love His Story
- By M. Batt on 01-31-20
- Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
A sensitive telling
Reviewed: 04-25-20
I grew up in the same era when the world got upended.. James gives a sensitive and illuminating telling of a difficult, creative and wondrous time. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Casting into the Light
- Tales of a Fishing Life
- By: Janet Messineo
- Narrated by: Janet Messineo
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Janet Messineo knew from the get-go that she wanted to become a great fisherman. She knew she was as capable as any man of catching and landing a huge fish. It took years - and many terrifying nights along on the beach in complete darkness, in search of a huge creature to pull out of the sea - for her to prove to herself and to the male-dominated fishing community that she could make her dream real. Casting into the Light is a book about following one’s dreams and about the quiet reckoning with self in the long hours of darkness at the water’s edge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A woman who created her own adventure
- By Jacqueline Freeman on 12-16-19
- Casting into the Light
- Tales of a Fishing Life
- By: Janet Messineo
- Narrated by: Janet Messineo
A woman who created her own adventure
Reviewed: 12-16-19
I have done no fishing and other than crabbing in Sengekontacket in the 1970s. I have never been drawn to the idea of being cold and wet on a windy night catching razor-toothed big fish. But this book!
Janet's story is fascinating, awe-inspiring and a real joy. I bought the audiobook and rationed myself to make it last longer. I had it in the car so every time my husband rode with me, I backed it up so he could hear it -- and I got to hear it twice. After six weeks, I finished the book. It was really wonderful, every minute. Back in the 70s I knew Janet. I remember her staying out all night fishing and until now I hadn't understood why. The book explains everything. I especially enjoyed hearing how she came to understand the value of sustainable practices that may help these fish schools live on into the future. Thank you for helping me understand and appreciate your world.
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Barbarian Days
- A Surfing Life
- By: William Finnegan
- Narrated by: William Finnegan
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,088
Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016. Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a Jerk.
- By ML Sadler on 03-06-17
- Barbarian Days
- A Surfing Life
- By: William Finnegan
- Narrated by: William Finnegan
Got it on a whim and liked it
Reviewed: 01-04-19
I am not the target market for this book yet I still enjoyed it immensely. I got it on a whim and it turned out to be a great adventure.
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