Gillian

April 14, 2024

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Animals, Action & Adventure

The Book of Joe

Gillian

April 14, 2024

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Animals, Action & Adventure

About a Dog and His Man

Written and Narrated By: Victoria Price

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

More like The Book of Vincent… and… thank GOSH Times Change…!!!

Gillian

March 31, 2024

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Empowerment

Capote’s Women

Gillian

March 31, 2024

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Empowerment

A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer / Narrated By: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

A mishmash of EVERYthing that adds up to…? Uhm… not much…

Gillian

March 26, 2023

Fiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

Fallopian Rhapsody

Gillian

March 26, 2023

Fiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

The Story of the Lunachicks

Written and Narrated By: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Memories! Ahhh, memories! Come for this reminder of simpler times, tutu and combat boots times!

Gillian

February 26, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Humor, Well Known Figure

Man Up!

Gillian

February 26, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Humor, Well Known Figure

Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence

By: Ross Mathews / Foreword: Gwyneth Paltrow / Afterword: Chelsea Handler / Narrated By: Ross Mathews

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Mathews is aDORable, and I love his All-Out Life Is Grand outlook! …but…

Gillian

February 12, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

Texas Flood

Gillian

February 12, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Written and Narrated By: Alan Paul, Andy Aledort / Epilogue: Jimmie Vaughan

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Memories of a WonderMan… and some pretty goshdanged Ugly Sobs as well

Gillian

December 11, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

Hit So Hard

Gillian

December 11, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

A Memoir

Written and Narrated By: Patty Schemel

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

An awesome trip down Memory Lane, an honest depiction of Addiction… and about 6-hours way toooo long…

Gillian

July 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

Conan Doyle for the Defense

Gillian

July 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

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…?!

Gillian

June 26, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Biology & Medicine, Social Science, Well Known Figure

All the Young Men

Gillian

June 26, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Biology & Medicine, Social Science, Well Known Figure

A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

By: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary / Narrated By: Ruth Coker Burks

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Moving, heartfelt, emotionally evocative, and I could go on. Let’s leave it at simply stunning.

Gillian

June 19, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

My Seven Black Fathers

Gillian

June 19, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole

Written and Narrated By: Will Jawando

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

A moving testament to how our kids need aaaaallll of us

Gillian

June 19, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Thanatology

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies

Gillian

June 19, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Thanatology

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

Written and Narrated By: Michael Ausiello

Length: 10 hrs

Oh gosh… reeeally wanted to LOVE this… can I settle for just LIKING it…?

Gillian

April 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Thanatology, Well Known Figure

A Matter of Death and Life

Gillian

April 10, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Thanatology, Well Known Figure

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…

Gillian

March 27, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics, Crime, Well Known Figure, Social Science

A Very Expensive Poison

Gillian

March 27, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Politics, Crime, Well Known Figure, Social Science

The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

By: Luke Harding / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Enlightened the first Listen morphs into, well, stunned for the second… Do give this a Listen

Gillian

March 13, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Thanatology, Empowerment, Well Known Figure

I Am, I Am, I Am

Gillian

March 13, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Thanatology, Empowerment, Well Known Figure

Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell / Narrated By: Daisy Donovan

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Beautifully written, hauntingly touching; just absolutely stunning…

Gillian

February 20, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, History, Well Known Figure

You Never Forget Your First

Gillian

February 20, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, History, Well Known Figure

A Biography of George Washington

By: Alexis Coe / Narrated By: Brittany Pressley, Alexis Coe

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Okay—Just cuz something sorely ticks ya off, does NOT mean it’s automatically Leftist-Cancel-Culture; not when most of it’s true

Gillian

January 15, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, History, American, 20th Century

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gillian

January 15, 2022

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, History, American, 20th Century

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

(Abridged)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!

Gillian

November 24, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Food, Well Known Figure

The Making of a Chef

Gillian

November 24, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Food, Well Known Figure

Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

By: Michael Ruhlman / Narrated By: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Loved it Loved it Loved it—but Jeff Riggenbach should be shot… Wait! Is that too harsh? Nope, don’t think so…

Gillian

November 24, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Food, Well Known Figure

32 Yolks

Gillian

November 24, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Food, Well Known Figure

From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

By: Eric Ripert, Veronica Chambers / Narrated By: Peter Ganim

Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins

What’s this? A chef of note who’s NOT an amoral drunk?!

Gillian

October 2, 2021

Nonfiction, Ecology, Social Science, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

A Walk in the Woods

Gillian

October 2, 2021

Nonfiction, Ecology, Social Science, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

By: Bill Bryson / Narrated By: Rob McQuay

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! …oops… wait… is it okay to laugh…?

Gillian

July 3, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, History, American, Essays & Poetry, Well Known Figure

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Gillian

July 3, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, History, American, Essays & Poetry, Well Known Figure

By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!

Gillian

June 26, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Food

Cooking as Fast as I Can

Gillian

June 26, 2021

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Well Known Figure, Food

A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness

By: Cat Cora / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Oy vey: Clueless! clueless! exASPeratingly clueless!