Marta Magellan

Sad Life

Revisado: 08-15-24

Although the author was an actor, this was a case where the book would have been better served bty another. She simply did not have the distance from her pathetic life. At times, she seemed to be racing through a line as if she wanted to get it over with. I could understand that. It was a mostly sorry youth. What struck me was the very real possibility that she is not the only one out there with such a backstory. For that reason, the book was an eye opener.

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The Truly Most Interesting Beatle

Revisado: 08-14-24

I had read on Audible the biographies of John and George first, inaccurately thinking those would be more interesting than Paul’s. I was wrong. This biography of Paul, performed impeccably by the reader kept me enthralled throughout its hefty length. I now realize like many people, I had not given Paul his due. He couldn’t be a deeper, more complex subject. All along I thought John was the one with the creative streak. Philip Norman, the author, who was also once so dismissive of Paul, has given readers a profound glimpse into the real talent and the admirable man who was known at first as the cute Beatle. Without him, there would be no Beatles. The four together, of course, made the perfect combination, but Paul was and still is the real artist and musician I had dismissed.

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Hiking and Romance

Revisado: 07-11-24

I liked the banter and the adventure. I did not like the female narrator. She merged her words too much, for example, “I trite walk” instead of “tried to walk.” The male never gave me any trouble understanding. Because they switched back and forth, I adjusting the speed didn’t work. I would have liked to have read this book in print.

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New details about his life.

Revisado: 05-07-24

The author seemed fair in his opinions but not in his dismissal of I ME MINE because to me it was definitely one of his memorable songs.

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An Insightful Memoir

Revisado: 04-04-24

His story is the story of many neglected and abandoned kids in this country. But what makes this more than a memoir is his realization that the classic values of honoring the two-parent family, now being pushed aside by those in those families, are that which will most offer children stability.

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Shocking New Information

Revisado: 03-14-24

I simply did not know that the gender transition going on was affecting mostly adolescent girls. The stories from the girls who later regretted transitioning were poignant. Adults who were happy with their transition were also interviewed. Highly recommended.

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Two timelines

Revisado: 02-11-24

Well written and the readers had pleasant voices. The different voices added to the interest.

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Unlikeable

Revisado: 06-13-22

I tried, I kept reading, but I couldn’t get past the unlikeable characters. The plot in this one wasn’t enough to hold me.

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Unsavory characters

Revisado: 05-28-22

I have read and enjoyed books with unsavory characters before (LOLITA for one). But none of the characters in this book made me feel like I could stand spending anymore time with them. I did not finish the book.

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Review if The Mothers

Revisado: 01-03-22

The emotional thread in the book was certainly there, but I was never able to sympathize with Nadia, the main character. The story begins and ends with the church ladies gossiping about Nadia, who has had an abortion and whose mother has killed herself. Nadia is both motherless and childless, but the abortion has freed her to go to college and law school, leaving the baby’s father Luke, the pastor’s son, to marry Nadia’s best friend, Aubrey. Although the aborted baby never leaves Nadia’s imagination, living in her mind as a boy she calls Baby, Nadia never forgives Luke for leaving her alone at the abortion clinic. Yet, when her father is ill, she comes back and starts an affair with Luke, damaging his marriage. That is the beginning of a long string of incidents that tears everyone in the congregation apart and eventually brings it down completely. Nadia is sorry at the end, but that hardly makes up for the destruction her affair triggered. I was actually bored at the end.

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