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If you enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada you will like Grace. Her road to the fashion industry and Anna Wintour is interesting and personal. She is funny, insightful and tells her story with both humor and honesty.

Even though this book is not read by Hitch you can still here his voice in every word. His stories are/were always entertaining, very funny, educational and filled with his amazement of his life. As he said in his interview with Charlie Rose "I am leaving the party earlier than I though I would, much earlier. I also highly recommend Hitch 22. It is read by Hitch and you will listen over and over.

This small book is magical. Anyone who has lost a family member will say "oh the same thing happened to me." Having lost too many people in my family I found this book at times funny, because I did the same thing, sad, not maudlin and educational. I have always liked Joan Didion's books but this one is my favorite. She recalls the small details one would experience after a death. She could not give his shoes away because he might come back and need them. That is a perfect example of magical thinking whether you are thinking like a sociologist or a psychologist or have lost a loved one.

Joan Didion's book Blue Nights is about the death of her daughter. I think of them as companion books but not alike. Read A Year of Magical Thinking. Sometimes it will make you smile.

I enjoyed the book The Hollywood. There are a lot of great stories mentioning familiar and famous movie stars, Cary Grant among them. Michael Caine is as entertaining in the audio book as he is on film. I listened to this book during a run of insomnia and I could not only hear him smiling but visualize him there talking to me. You will not learn anything new or scandalous here. You will be entertained by a great actor telling great stories.

Do not bother with this book. A few facts and then the narrator does the Ingrid Bergman voice. That ruined it for me. From what I have read about Ingrid Bergman this book is bad fiction.

What can I say, who does not like Dick Cavett. He goes through his early years, his show biz years and his walks and talks with William Styron, Art Buchwald about their depress. Very entertaining.

I first read Sherwin Nuland's book after my mother died. I flipped through it again when my father died. Now I have listened to How We Die without emotions influencing my read. It is very good in telling you how systems fail and what that leads to.. Mr. Nuland is not out to frighten anyone but just to explain why things go wrong in the body and what those things lead to. Highly recommend it.

This is our history and yet it seems like a science fiction novel. The first hand stories are heart breaking. If you have seen the photos of Dorothea Lange or the movie The Grapes of Wrath you will have a slight idea of the amount of suffering that occured.

I truly enjoyed the audio version of this book. First the narrater had the perfect voice to speak about Jackie the private person. This gave the listener an insight into the few years before her death. She was a private person. She ate in restaurants, hailed cabs and became a very good editor of books. Several of which I have

The voice. Bernadette Dunne has the perfect voice for this book. It is soft and similar to how I remember Jackie Kennedy's voice sounded

I started this book on a night I felt stressed and after a certain time I was relaxed and thoroughly in to the book. The clock said 4:00am and I was still listening. I continued listening after my husband got up and continued until the end. I was sorry to come to the end of this audio book

I highly recommend this book because it gives one a look at Jackie the woman. Not the first lady, not wife of one of the world's richest men but just Jackie. A woman who got up and went to work and lived at last a quiet life

I was taken immediately by Livingston's writing and honesty. No platitudes, no telling in anyone he has the answers to life's questions. His writing is like having a conversation with some one who has been there. One opening sentence tells us if the map doesn't agree with the map, the map is wrong. I highly recommend this book, for it's pin point view of life.

If you have read Mr. Livingston's book Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, you will find the latest A Year of Magical Thing another insightful book by the wonderful Joan Didion. She is as precise as always and you can feel her pain and then her growing out of her pain.