Bios & Memoirs: On Being Jewish
The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
By: Eddie Jaku / Narrated By: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
Less contemplative than Frankl, but oh, that smiling!
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
By: Margalit Fox / Narrated By: Peter Forbes
Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
WOW…! That was ONLY 7-hrs and 41-mins…?!
By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…
An Attempted Memoir
Written and Narrated By: H. Jon Benjamin
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
A Review of Warning for the Faint-Hearted… :)
By: Helen Fremont / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
So “unsparing” that Fremont should feel some sense of shame…
Series: Night Trilogy, Book 1
By: Elie Wiesel / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
As haunting now as it was the first time I read it—so very long ago
Written and Narrated By: David Sedaris
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Sedaris takes on language, France, America, and drugs. Oh and art! Oh and the Ugly American! Oh and fat! Oh and…!
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
By: Sue Klebold / Narrated By: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
For Mother’s Day, I’ll try not to be toooo vitriolic about this one…
A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz
By: Olga Lengyel / Narrated By: Jennifer Wydra
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
ANOTHER book that starts off exasperating but ends with a bang!
The Further Adventures of Norton, the Cat Who Went to Paris, and His Human
By: Peter Gethers / Narrated By: David Laundra
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Oh man! How I wish my own cats were as inquisitive and mellow as Norton!
By: Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent / Narrated By: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
Ultimately uplifting, tho’ it really should have a European narrator