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Title: Princess, Secrets to Share

Author: Jean Sasson

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

As the world's attention traces the reluctant social advances in the Middle East, Princess Sultana and her female friends and family have stepped forward to rescue young women in the region who are cruelly mistreated by their husbands, their fathers, and the brutish ISIS soldiers who kidnap them. But inside the Princess' lavish Saudi Arabian palace, sparks of anger and bolts of fear crackle because of the secrets kept to forward her efforts to help women and children.

Kareem is furious when Sultana guards Maha's secret to volunteer to help traumatized children at a refugee camp in Turkey. When a beautiful Yemeni woman visits the royal palaces of Saudi Arabia, Sultana is saddened yet mesmerized to be told the story of the woman's seven marriages. Meanwhile, Kareems father takes a new wife - and Princess Sultana is blamed.

Members Reviews:

okay but not as good as the others in series

I really wanted more details of Saltaras life but it just went over old stuff

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Title: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World, by Bob Goff

Subtitle: Summary & Analysis

Author: Instaread

Narrator: Michael Gilboe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-15

Publisher: Instaread

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Preview:

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World by Bob Goff is a memoir of the lawyer's journey through faith as a Christian.

As a young child, Goff injured his eye when he was playing with his father's rifle and the gun went off. Goff's dad rushed him to the hospital, which is how Goff imagines God responding to human failures.

Goff befriended a corner store owner. Goff often bought candy at the store and the owner would sometimes allow him to take the candy even when he did not have enough money. This helped Goff realize that sometimes people can make their own rules.

When Goff was in elementary school, he joined a little league baseball team. The team made it to the playoffs but lost. Goff, however, hit a home run. His coach sent him a card that told him he was a real baseball player....

Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book, and not the original book.

Inside this Instaread summary and analysis of Love Does:

About the author:

With Instaread, you can get the summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, summarize, and analyze it for your convenience.

Members Reviews:

~~ Do yourself a favor and read the original ~~

Do yourself a favor and read the original book, not this VERY POORLY written review by Instaread. For folks that follow my reviews, you know that I am a big Instaread fan and usually love their reviews but not this one. The overview is completely disjointed, separate paragraphs that read more like a random list. NO continuity. When discussing 'Character Relationships' we are told that Goff's friend Doug introduced him "to a particular form of Christianity". What is that supposed to mean?

I do not recommend this Instaread summary at all. It certainly sounds like Bob Good has led an amazing, adventure filled life and so the one good thing about this summary is that it has encouraged me to purchase the original and read that. It's only 241 pages so I am looking forward to it.

This Instaread book was provided in exchange for an honest review. Thanks, Liz

How ordinary people can do extraordinary things

Love Does by Bob Goff is an excellent memoir that shows how an ordinary person, through faith, can do extraordinary things. While the author stresses the Christian basis of his beliefs, one doesnât have to be Christian to see the value in the lessons Goff learned in life; that self-reliance, love, and the willingness to take risks and live life to the fullest, are the keys to happiness and success. The author uses his own life to show how a person perceived in childhood to have low potential, but who had big ideas, can go on to greatness.

Love Does by Bod Goff/Summary & Analysis by Instaread is an extraordinary review of the book and makes me want to read it.

One man's journey towards faith

"Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World" by Bob Goff is a memoir about his life and faith. His journey toward becoming a lawyer, and the grapples he had with his faith in between, are inspiring and motivational. This Instaread review summarizes and analyzes Goff's memoir, revealing the motifs and themes in a precise and beautiful way.

This review made it much easier to meditate on the effects of faith and love without detracting from my busy life.

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Title: What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim

Subtitle: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Author: Jane Christmas

Narrator: Jane Christmas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-15

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of midlife, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters, and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even the fair-haired man. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim is one trip neither the author nor the listener will forget.

Members Reviews:

LISTEN TO THIS BOOK if you like irreverent humor!

If you're looking for a travel guide, or a new-agey uber positive account of the Camino de Santiago, this is probably not the book for you. If, on the other hand, you can appreciate a sharp, irreverent sense of humor and don't mind the occasional swear word, then you will enjoy this brutally honest description of the trials and tribulations Jane Christmas encountered when she took a very long walk on a whim.

To celebrate her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas announced (on CBC radio) that she was going to walk the Camino de Santiago. Admittedly, she didn't have a firm idea of what this might entail at the time. Nor did she foresee the reaction her announcement would engender. Soon, a group of women had contacted her wanting to join in the fun.

Things sort of snowballed from there, and Jane found herself leading a group of middle-aged women along this pilgrimage. Given that Jane is intolerant of stupidity and shallowness, she soon found the dynamics of the group difficult to bear and eventually she broke off from the group to go it alone. That solved some problems, but also confronted Jane with new issues to overcome, including loneliness and the sheer discomfort of such a long walk.

Her observations are sharp and sometimes less than kind, but Jane is also aware of her own shortcomings, too. The author narrated it herself. Her other memoirs ("The Pelee Project," "Incontinent on the Continent" and "And Then There Were Nuns") were narrated by actors. Some might prefer the professional narration, but I liked both - it is fun to hear her voice her own work.

Don't listen to this book

Sadly I found this very disturbing, so much that I may change my plans to walk the Camino. The author is self absorbed, vicious and angry the entire journey. I kept thinking she would find redemption. I was wrong.

Too much negativity

I had to stop listening about 2/3 of the way through because the author is way too negative. Up to that point she had complained about everything and everyone along the Camino and I was tired of listening to her call everyone names and complain about wanting to quit every day.

Hyper-Critical, Name-Calling Narcissist

What disappointed you about What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim?

I can't believe I wasted 11+ hours of my life (and the significant portion of a beautiful road trip) waiting for this book to get better and to redeem itself. It did not. First of all, I NEVER want to hear the word "pilgrim" ever again. How many times do you need to use it?!

The author is a judgemental goon who spends more time ragging on the people around her than recognizing and admitting flaws within herself.

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Title: A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet

Subtitle: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

Author: Rita Gabis

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-15

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: Prior to immigration, he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler's army swept in.

Five years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: From 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been Chief of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in the fall of 1941. In 1942, the local Polish population was also hunted down. Gabis felt compelled to find out the complicated truth of who her grandfather was and what he had done.

Built around dramatic interviews in four countries, filled with original scholarship, and mesmerizing in its lyricism, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet is a history and family memoir like no other, documenting "the holocaust by bullets" in a remarkable quest as Gabis returns again and again to the country of her grandfather's birth to learn all she can about the man she thought she knew.

Members Reviews:

Problems with pronunciation

I guess it is hard to pronounce Lithuanian place names and German last names. One would expect that a reader who is narrating a story about Lithuania during WW2 would have a minimal knowledge of pronunciation.

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Title: Home Is Burning

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Dan Marshall

Narrator: Dan Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-15

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 155 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol. Meet Dan Marshall - 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And he ignores it, as you usually do when Mom calls. Then she calls again. And again. Dan thought things were going great at home. But it turns out his mom's cancer, which she had battled throughout his childhood with tenacity and a mouth foul enough to make a sailor blush, is back. And to add insult to injury, his loving father has been diagnosed with ALS.

Sayonara LA. Dan is headed home to Salt Lake City, Utah. Never has there been a more reluctant family reunion: His older sister is resentful, having stayed closer to home to bear the brunt of their mother's illness. His younger brother comes to lend a hand, giving up a journalism career and evenings cruising Chicago gay bars. His next younger sister, a sullen teenager, is a rebel with a cause. And his baby sister - through it all - can think only about her beloved dance troop. Dan returns to shouting matches at the dinner table, old flames knocking at the door, and a speech device programmed to help his father communicate that is as crude as the rest of them.

But they put their petty differences aside and form Team Terminal, battling their parents' illnesses as best they can when not otherwise distracted by the chaos that follows them wherever they go. Not even the family cats escape unscathed. As Dan steps into his role as caregiver, wheelchair wrangler, and sibling referee, he watches pieces of his previous life slip away and comes to realize that the further you stretch the ties that bind, the tighter they hold you together.

Members Reviews:

Slam Dunk, Baby

I loved this book so damn much. I didn't realize something could be so sad and hilarious at the same time. Really a wonderful, beautiful story. Lots of fart jokes, lots of heart.

He does a great job performing as well.

I'd highly recommend this puppy.

Loved it!

Loved his honest writing about an awful disease. Loved having the author narrate for a real taste of what his life was like. Loved having great belly laughs along with tears of sadness. We all cope in our own ways and this was real to me.

Self-indulgent ... and not very likeable

Maybe immature would be the best description for this story of an entirely immature and not very likable family, with a vocabulary pretty much limited to expletives, trying to share something important with us about caring for a dying father. With plenty of money and access to medical care, travel and alcohol, the family copes in its own dysfunctional ways. I'm sure it was awful to lose a parent in that way, but I found this memoir to be neither funny nor enlightening.

I'm with Bob

Brutally honest and often funny book about a family losing their father to ALS. Maybe a dark sense of humor is required to appreciate the book.

Horrible and Excellent.

Great story and a great memoir, not for people that get offended by the fuck.

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Title: Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains

Subtitle: Misadventures on a Buddhist Pilgrimage

Author: Paul Barach

Narrator: Paul Barach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-15

Publisher: Paul Barach

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Age 28 and fed up with the office job he settled for, Paul Barach decided to travel to Japan to follow a vision he had in college: to walk the ancient 750-mile Shikoku pilgrimage trail.

Here are some things he did not decide to do: learn Japanese, do any research, road test his hiking shoes, or check if it's the hottest summer in history.

And he went anyway, hoping to change his life.

Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains is the absurd and dramatic journey of one impulsive American's search for answers on a holy path in an exotic land. Along the pathway connecting 88 Buddhist temples, he'll face arduous mountain climbs, hide from guards in a toilet stall, challenge a priest to a mountaintop karate battle, and other misadventures.

He'll also delve into the fascinating legends of this ancient land, including a dragon-fighting holy man, a berserker warrior-priest, haunted temples, and a vendetta-driven ghost that overthrew a dynasty.

Told with humor and humility, Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains is a funny, engaging memoir about the consequences of impulsive decisions, and the things you can discover while you're looking for something else.

Also, that boars are terrifying in person.

Members Reviews:

And I thought I was whiny..

Expected some sort of great turn around, revelation, or at least interesting observations. If I wanted a story about hurt footsies, being disappointed in ones self, awkwardly unexciting encounters with wildlife, a poor recording with a lawn mower running in the background, and the rambling of a spoiled millennial Jew I could have done my own autobiographical account of a trek through scenic New Jersey... I had to refill my prescription because I was so stressed at how bad this book is. If I hadn't spent so much money on it I couldn't have forced myself to finish it.

A great bar story for friends

Would you listen to another book narrated by Paul Barach?

The author seems a little tired of reading his book by the time he recorded this book. He also seems to lose his place frequently and repeats a sentence several times.

Any additional comments?

This book probably started out as a story he told friends over beers after he returned from his trip. Unfortunately, like most bar stories it seems like a really good idea at the time to write a book about it, but loses something in the longer form. He tries to intersperse a bit of humor, but even that seems forced. While the trek must have been amazing, the retelling is less impressive.

upsetting

Paul, you had a pile of good Intel on the history of this place. You were on a trail that sounds legit, your relatively funny. You cried about your blisters for fifteen chapters now and I'm tired of listening it. I want to hold out for your epiphany but as an American of your generation I'm truly upset at the way your representing us. It's like going on a car ride with a five year old screams the whole time, "I want McDonald's".

Awful echo's in the first few chapters

Good story but awful echo/reverb on the first few chapters made this very hard to listen too

Ok listen

I appreciate the story, but this did not seem like a journey worth writing a book about. Perhaps a blog post with pictures would have sufficed.

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Title: One Year Off

Subtitle: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

Author: David Cohen

Narrator: Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the best-selling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over the course of six months, he and his wife sold their house, cars, and most of their possessions. He closed his business and pulled their three young children out of school. With only a suitcase, a backpack, and a passport per person, the Cohen family set off on a rollicking round-the-world journey filled with laugh-out-loud mishaps, heart-pounding adventures, and unforeseen epiphanies. In Botswana, the Cohens's tiny motorboat is charged by a hippo. In Zimbabwe, lions ambush a buffalo outside the family's tent. In Australia, their young daughter is caught in a riptide and nearly pulled out to sea.

In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos. Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children's eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself.

Members Reviews:

Escape or get prepared

Like the author's TS Elliott quote about winding up back where you started but seeing with fresh eyes, this is both the book's journey and hopefully yours, as the reader. Journey the world without the inconveniences; Laugh, feel inspired, and wonder what is around the next bend.

If you are an avid traveler and have lived abroad, you might find yourself remembering your own journeys or be inspired to go on a new one.

In the wrap up, where the author astutely says, that it takes time to percolate the lessons of the year, he reminds us that there is this ever present journey....right here..life. Do it well with purpose and integrity.

Thank you David and family... I don't know you but really enjoyed the book read from on a recent trip from the outskirts of Sienna and SW France to the shores of Santa Barbara.

Best book in it's category

I've read most of the books in this genre (dozens) and found One Year Off one of the best if not the best one. The other books are dry and more of a how-to writing. While that could be helpful, the writing gets stale as technology and the world changes. Also, it's just not that much fun.

One Year Off is more of a human interest story about what happens when a family takes off and travels the globe temporarily putting their "regular life" on hold to explore the world.

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Title: The World Between Two Covers

Subtitle: Reading the Globe

Author: Ann Morgan

Narrator: Ann Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's yearlong journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than 20 years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me.... I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years.... The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites, and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: We meet an irreverent junk food-obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

Members Reviews:

A terrific read that could change the world

This book was terrific. I am going to take this goal as my own and try to inspire others to follow it as well.

The lack of books in translation also explains why so few Americans

have a global view of the world and merely a national view. I believe if there were

more Americans reading more translations, Americans would think twice before constantly engaging in war.

Those would be more 'real people' to us that we're bombing.

I also believe this lack of knowlege about the world will make America

uncompetitive in the future, hence, we need to get reading global literature!

I applaud Ann's efforts, I like that she examined the state of the global publishing industry in the book,

and sends us to her blog for the list itself.

wonderful book for all bookworms

Ann Morgan decides to read a book from all over the world,each country a different book.Wonderful book for all bookworms.Ann introduces us to new books &interesting contacts with authors.the book is written in a chatty style as though you were listening to one of your close friends.

5/5 for concept. 2/5 for execution.

The idea of reading books from around the world is absolutely terrific, and is what prompted me to pre-order this book. I can't recommend the prose style as highly. The style is extremely, chronically long-winded. Sentences which run on for more than a page are common place. It was extremely tedious and, in the end, I just could not go on.The name-dropping, extended academic quotes and jargon are at home in a term-paper, perhaps.

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Title: The Philosopher and the Wolf

Subtitle: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happines

Author: Mark Rowlands

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person and, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to reevaluate his attitude toward love, happiness, nature, and death. By turns funny (what do you do when your wolf eats your air-conditioning unit?) and poignant, this life-affirming book will make you reappraise what it means to be human.

Critic Reviews:

"This year's most original and instructive work of popular philosophy...a remarkable portrait of the bond that can exist between a human being and a beast.... Rowlands is] a rare contemporary philosopher who is able to learn from everything he experiences in life, not just books and academic journals. That is what makes The Philosopher and the Wolf so refreshing." (Financial Times)

"An extraordinary memoir." (Daily Mail)

"A powerfully subversive critique of the unexamined assumption that shape the way most philosophers - along with most people - think about animals and themselves." (Literary Review)

"Rowland's memoir is life-affirming, engrossing, thoughtful and moving...The Philosopher and the Wolf could become a philosophical cult classic." (TLS)

"Nothing short of human existence, survival and our relationship to all other creatures is examined here and it's all written in a beautifully elegiac way. The heart-strings will be pulled and the mind stimulated."(City AM)

Members Reviews:

Great book, a look at life

Thank you Mark, fascinating book, great narration and what an impact Brennan had on your life, amazing.

Brilliant

This book amazed me. I found it touching and humorous, which I expected. I didn't expect to find it so deeply moving and powerful, illuminating aspects of myself and my experience through his exploration of himself, his wolf, and what it means to be either. ..Or both. The narrator does an exceptional job, and I am left feeling like I just had a precious conversation with the author in which he taught me about life and my self.

Best book I've downloaded

I love this book. As a former philosophy student I've missed thinking about the big questions in life. This book presents an interesting, funny and accessible story. I can't wait to get hold of Mark Rowlands next book.

The Wolf knows best.

Not quite what I thought it would be. But still a gentle way to introduce philosophy and remember a very close companion of many years. I, personally would have liked to hear more about Brennan but what I have learnt about life and how to live it.

A philosophy so well framed !

The author may be a fool, but it brought us a magnificent expose of animal and human motivations in life.

Excellent read for every dog owner and anybody to enjoy some philosophical challenge.

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Title: B is for Bauhaus

Subtitle: An A-Z of the Modern World

Author: Deyan Sudjic

Narrator: Dan Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from authenticity to zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture.

It's an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the city as seen from the rearview mirror of Grand Theft Auto V, digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about the modern world of fashion, technology, design and art.

Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan and was the director of the Venice architecture biennale and a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen.

The author of The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex, Deyan Sudjic is now director of the Design Museum, London.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Fun read.