Gillian

April 23, 2023

Nonfiction, Social Science, Food

Caffeine

Gillian

April 23, 2023

Nonfiction, Social Science, Food

How Caffeine Created the Modern World

Written and Narrated By: Michael Pollan

Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins

Full of the enthusiasm and inspired ideas that fuel a single cup o’ joe’s rush

Gillian

February 5, 2023

Nonfiction, Social Science, Religion & Spirituality, Essays & Poetry

Finding Freedom

Gillian

February 5, 2023

Nonfiction, Social Science, Religion & Spirituality, Essays & Poetry

How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart

By: Jarvis Jay Masters / Narrated By: Dion Graham

Length: 4 hrs

In a Bad Place? There’s ALWAYS Jarvis Jay Masters

Gillian

January 29, 2023

Fiction, Kids, Contemporary, Mental Health

Small as an Elephant

Gillian

January 29, 2023

Fiction, Kids, Contemporary, Mental Health

By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson / Narrated By: William Dufris

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Uhm… well… sometimes I just canNOT help the way m’ brain works… good for youngsters in tough tough tough situations, tho’

Gillian

January 8, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Religion & Spirituality, Social Science, Motivation & Inspiration, Mental Health

Trust First

Gillian

January 8, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Religion & Spirituality, Social Science, Motivation & Inspiration, Mental Health

A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances

By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!

Gillian

November 13, 2022

Nonfiction, History, American, Politics, Military

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Gillian

November 13, 2022

Nonfiction, History, American, Politics, Military

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

The Forgotten War That Changed American History

By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger / Narrated By: Brian Kilmeade

Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Uh-oh… one eye firmly on History, the other? Oh ouch… total Squid’s Eye, and I can’t help it…

Gillian

August 14, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Mental Health

Reasons to Stay Alive

Gillian

August 14, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Mental Health

Written and Narrated By: Matt Haig

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Very good, but Jiminy H. Cricket…!

Gillian

August 7, 2022

Fiction, Social Science, Humor

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Gillian

August 7, 2022

Fiction, Social Science, Humor

By: Kurt Vonnegut / Narrated By: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins

“We Are Here On Earth To Fart Around”—Kurt Vonnegut (YouTube 2004)!!!

Gillian

July 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Social Science, Thanatology

From Here to Eternity

Gillian

July 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Social Science, Thanatology

Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Written and Narrated By: Caitlin Doughty

Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Secular, yes. Irreverent, yes. Honoring our dead loved ones and bringing grief into the light? Oh my, yesss!

Gillian

June 26, 2022

Fiction, Classic, World, Social Science

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Gillian

June 26, 2022

Fiction, Classic, World, Social Science

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins

Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.

Gillian

April 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Politics, Social Science

Snowden's Box

Gillian

April 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Politics, Social Science

Trust in the Age of Surveillance

By: Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge / Narrated By: Chloe Cannon, Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Good enough that I might tackle other Snowden accounts…?

Gillian

February 27, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Animals, Ecology, Social Science

Bird Brother

Gillian

February 27, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Animals, Ecology, Social Science

A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

By: Rodney Stotts, Kate Pipkin - contributor / Narrated By: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Listen to the Universe; Lean into the Dream…!

Gillian

January 15, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Self Development, Empowerment

The Pursuit of Happyness

Gillian

January 15, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Self Development, Empowerment

(Abridged)

By: Chris Gardner / Narrated By: Andre Blake

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Soooo torn about this one! Would you respect me less were I to be as indecisive as to neither Yay nor Boo it?!

Gillian

January 1, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Mental Health

Normal Sucks

Gillian

January 1, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Mental Health

How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

Written and Narrated By: Jonathan Mooney

Length: 5 hrs and 1 min

A wonderful reminder to be Yourself, and NYAH! to the System!

Gillian

October 9, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics

Dear America

Gillian

October 9, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics

Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Written and Narrated By: Jose Antonio Vargas

Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins

Good enough but by no MEANS is this the experience of most Undocumented individuals…

Gillian

September 18, 2021

Nonfiction, Essays & Poetry, Philosophy

Thoreau and Emerson

Gillian

September 18, 2021

Nonfiction, Essays & Poetry, Philosophy

Nature and Spirit

By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson / Narrated By: Russ Barnett

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

All seem so timely; I’m kinda distressed but am also a weeee bit hopeful…?

Gillian

September 4, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science

Channel of Peace

Gillian

September 4, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science

Written and Narrated By: Kevin Tuerff

Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins

Actionable steps to be taken if you’re feeling grateful around 9-11 anniversaries

Gillian

June 26, 2021

Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Politics

Enter the Aardvark

Gillian

June 26, 2021

Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Politics

By: Jessica Anthony / Narrated By: Matt Amendt

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

First Listen? Haaaaated it! Listened again to see exACTly why, and I? Loved it…?

Gillian

May 8, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Cognition, Performance, Essays & Poetry

The Long Hello

Gillian

May 8, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Cognition, Performance, Essays & Poetry

Memory, My Mother, and Me

By: Cathie Borrie / Narrated By: Jill Tucker, Cathie Borrie

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Sometimes lovely, sometimes heartbreaking—Bits and pieces strung together; it’s Life in all its desperate and gorgeous glory…

Gillian

February 6, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science

My Vanishing Country

Gillian

February 6, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science

A Memoir

Written and Narrated By: Bakari Sellers

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

A look at Black working class rural America? I think not. A look at Bakari being an ambitious bit of a buffoon? Oh totally…

Gillian

January 23, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics, Well Known Figure, Performance

Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime

Gillian

January 23, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics, Well Known Figure, Performance

Written and Narrated By: Dan Rather

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Charming and folksy, even when touching on the traumatic and the tragic…