Gillian

August 20, 2023

Nonfiction, History, European, Social Science, Politics

Travelers in the Third Reich

Gillian

August 20, 2023

Nonfiction, History, European, Social Science, Politics

The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945

By: Julia Boyd / Narrated By: Christa Lewis

Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins

Three words? Stunning. Terrifying. Timely…

Gillian

June 18, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Thanatology

Furnishing Eternity

Gillian

June 18, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Thanatology

A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

By: David Giffels / Narrated By: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

No I didn’t weep; but gosh! did I feel, or what?!

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

April 16, 2023

Fiction, Animals, Kids, Social Science

Always, Clementine

Gillian

April 16, 2023

Fiction, Animals, Kids, Social Science

By: Carlie Sorosiak / Narrated By: Taylor Meskimen

Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins

Wonderful for kids… and, like, meeee! but oh DO keep hankies nearby…

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

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Animals, Action & Adventure, Social Science

The Dog Went Over the Mountain

Gillian

January 29, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Animals, Action & Adventure, Social Science

Travels with Albie: An American Journey

By: Peter Zheutlin / Narrated By: Gregg Rizzo

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Looking to escape Political Commentary…? >Ooooops< -Still- it has a DOG in it!!!

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

January 8, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Mental Health

Waiting for an Echo

Gillian

January 8, 2023

Nonfiction, Bio & Memoir, Social Science, Mental Health

The Madness of American Incarceration

Written and Narrated By: Christine Montross

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

A most DEFinite slug to the gut—with the tiiiiiniest of glimmers of Hope at the end. And I DO mean TINY

Gillian

October 23, 2022

Nonfiction, History, Social Science

Nueva Canción

Gillian

October 23, 2022

Nonfiction, History, Social Science

The Lost Recordings

By: Luis Alberto González Arenas, Diego Morales De Murga / Narrated By: Robb Moreira, Thom Rivera, Ozzie Rodriguez, Gabriel Romero, Pietro Gonzalez, Julia Vera Andrews, Frankie Maria Corzo, Rene Veron

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Intricate, Inspiring, Very Well-Done

Gillian

September 11, 2022

Fiction, Magical Realism, Humor, Thanatology, Social Science

Death with Interruptions

Gillian

September 11, 2022

Fiction, Magical Realism, Humor, Thanatology, Social Science

By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Paul Baymer

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Social Commentary? Check. A Bit O’ Sweetness…? Uhm, well, yeah… Go Death, Go!

Gillian

August 21, 2022

Nonfiction, History, Social Science

A Demon-Haunted Land

Gillian

August 21, 2022

Nonfiction, History, Social Science

Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

By: Monica Black / Narrated By: Erin Dion

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

I don’t know; but I don’t think Monica Black quite knows either… hmmm…

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

July 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Social Science, Philosophy

For Small Creatures Such as We

Gillian

July 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Social Science, Philosophy

Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

Written and Narrated By: Sasha Sagan

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

I was going for treatises on Embracing Life for those who are secular… got a lot of autobiography instead…

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 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 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Politics, Social Science, History, European

On Tyranny

Gillian

April 24, 2022

Nonfiction, Politics, Social Science, History, European

Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine

Written and Narrated By: Timothy Snyder

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Timothy Snyder is a MUST Listen!!!

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

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 20, 2022

Nonfiction, History, European, Politics, Social Science

Bloodlands

Gillian

March 20, 2022

Nonfiction, History, European, Politics, Social Science

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham

Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins

Overwhelming… Familiar…