Jody Goodwin
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The Midnight Library
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Matt Haig
- Narrateur(s): Carey Mulligan
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently.
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It will change your life perspective !
- Écrit par Allie le 2020-11-13
- The Midnight Library
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Matt Haig
- Narrateur(s): Carey Mulligan
Heartwarming mental health story
Évalué le: 2024-12-29
I’m so glad I listened to this book! What a performance by Carey Mulligan!
At times this book is heartbreaking, as well as uplifting and inspirational. Such a beautiful book for anyone struggling with mental health. Feels similar to a Wonderful Life, but with a female lead. So many relatable points throughout with memorable commentary about starting over and learning to live for oneself over fulfilling the dreams of others.
I highly recommend this read if the subject matter appeals. I would give this listen a 10/5 review. The performance was outstanding. I listened all the way through in one go and I know I’ll listen to it again.
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Ten Steps to Nanette
- A Memoir Situation
- Auteur(s): Hannah Gadsby
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Gadsby
- Durée: 13 h et 47 min
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Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, they found themselves adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. When Gadsby was twenty-seven, a friend encouraged them to enter a stand-up competition. They won, and so began their career in comedy.
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A thoughtful and affecting memoir
- Écrit par Notmyrealname le 2022-04-06
- Ten Steps to Nanette
- A Memoir Situation
- Auteur(s): Hannah Gadsby
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Gadsby
Soared to the top of my favourite Audible books!
Évalué le: 2023-06-18
I loved this memoir so much that I was actually bereft when it ended. Listening to Hannah tell their story was a joy in itself. There's not much comedy, but they toss in a little gem every so often. Their story is heartbreaking and, also inspiring. What Hannah endured is both deeply unjust and sad, but how they grew along the way is incredibly inspiring. I especially loved what was shared about their ADHD and Autism diagnosis and how they learned to set themselves up for success afterwards.
I absolutely loved the comedy show Nanette. I've watched it many times as I also feel the anger portrayed during that show, and I am grateful they followed up with a book to expand more on what led up to it. If you loved the comedy special, you won't be disappointed. Hannah is an amazing storyteller, and what they are sharing is invaluable in today's growing hostility towards the lgbtqia2s+ community. This was a valuable listen during pride month and will be folded into my memoir recommendations going forward. Thank you for sharing your story, Hannah!
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Beautiful Boy
- A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
- Auteur(s): David Sheff
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Heald
- Durée: 11 h et 28 min
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.
Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.
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Absolutely heart wrenching and beautiful, I couldn’t turn it off.
- Écrit par Tracy le 2018-11-09
- Beautiful Boy
- A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
- Auteur(s): David Sheff
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Heald
One of my favourite memoirs!
Évalué le: 2023-04-27
Listening for the second time, and I loved it just as much. A heartbreaking, but beautiful human story of how addiction affects the families of an addict. It's also an intimate portrayal of what battling addiction looks like and the limited resources available for getting long term help. Filled with compassion, love and perseverance on all fronts. A valuable contribution to anyone on the sidelines of a loved one battling addiction.
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The Practice of Groundedness
- A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds - Not Crushes - Your Soul
- Auteur(s): Brad Stulberg
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
- Durée: 7 h et 3 min
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Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
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good but doesn’t stand out
- Écrit par Sarah le 2024-01-16
- The Practice of Groundedness
- A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds - Not Crushes - Your Soul
- Auteur(s): Brad Stulberg
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
Such great information!
Évalué le: 2023-04-06
This book offers an encouraging perspective on how to live your life with more purpose and a greater sense of care. I will definitely listen again; I highly recommend it!
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What My Bones Know
- A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- Auteur(s): Stephanie Foo
- Narrateur(s): Stephanie Foo
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
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This book should come with a trigger warning
- Écrit par Martie le 2023-02-01
- What My Bones Know
- A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- Auteur(s): Stephanie Foo
- Narrateur(s): Stephanie Foo
A helpful resource for healing C-PTSD.
Évalué le: 2023-04-04
Gentle Disclaimer: This is not an easy listen if you've experienced childhood abuse/trauma. That said, the material shared here is incredibly valuable, well researched and relatable. This is a brave share on a topic that doesn't have nearly enough resources. Well done, Stephanie!
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Matthew Perry
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Perry
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes listeners onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.
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so disappointed
- Écrit par Cristy le 2022-11-13
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Matthew Perry
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Perry
Privilege and addiction
Évalué le: 2022-12-06
As soon as I saw that Matthew Perry had written a memoir, I was excited to listen to it. I loved his portrayal of Chandler so much on Friends, but his struggle with drug use always seemed intriguing, given his fame and good fortune.
I had hoped this memoir would come with all kinds of epiphanies (my bad for having this anticipation). I grew increasingly annoyed the longer I listened to it. Maybe this memoir was written too early in his recovery story. Hard to say, but the writing comes across as a bit of "pity me." This gets harder to listen to when he repetitively talks about how much wealth he's accumulated. It's tough to empathize with him when you imagine someone without wealth trying to navigate addiction recovery.
There's little growth throughout the book as he seems to exist perpetually within the blame game, the self-aggrandizing and self-depreciation stage that drones on repetitively. Don't even get me started on how he speaks of the women he's engaged with (Spoiler: it's a carnival of red flags). He's a very privileged, wealthy addict that doesn't seem ready to be fully accountable for the choices he's made in his life. I hope he gets there, truly.
Not the best addiction memoir I've engaged with, but interesting to view addiction and privilege fueling each other.
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Overdose
- Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Perrin
- Narrateur(s): John Cleland
- Durée: 7 h et 16 min
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North America is in the middle of a health emergency. Life expectancies are declining. Someone is dying every two hours in Canada from illicit drug overdose. Fentanyl has become a looming presence—an opioid more powerful, pervasive, and deadly than any previous street drug.
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Great book.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-09-28
- Overdose
- Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Perrin
- Narrateur(s): John Cleland
Great points for moving forward
Évalué le: 2022-12-05
Finally, a book that gives a greater scope of how to move forward with the opioid crisis. If only our "leaders" in politics could pay attention to the recommendations and do the right thing. I appreciate the attention towards compassion for people fighting this disease. It's time to understand that this is a medical and mental health crisis and not a choice on the part of the afflicted. Cheers to the organizations in Canada fighting to create an environment for people to safely use and test drugs during this very challenging time with a poisoned drug supply. I hope more resources appear along these lines. Excellent research!
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Finding Me
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Viola Davis
- Narrateur(s): Viola Davis
- Durée: 9 h et 15 min
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In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.
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We think we are alone…truth is, we are not.
- Écrit par RITU G le 2022-05-28
- Finding Me
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Viola Davis
- Narrateur(s): Viola Davis
Viola is a beautiful story teller
Évalué le: 2022-10-17
This book was wonderful to listen to and learn from. Loaded full of inspiration, insight and courage to overcome. I will definitely listen to her soothing voice again. Highly recommended.
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Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- Auteur(s): Johann Hari
- Narrateur(s): Johann Hari
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
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In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
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Sleep Data, Sleep.
- Écrit par David Lakhan le 2022-02-14
- Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- Auteur(s): Johann Hari
- Narrateur(s): Johann Hari
Loved this book! Will definitely listen again.
Évalué le: 2022-03-10
A necessary book for the times we are currently living in. Relevant, well-informed/researched and earnestly portrayed reasons we need to manage our attention. I recommend this book if you have been struggling to focus.
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