It Ain't Over...Till It's Over

Reinventing Your Life - and Realizing Your Dreams - Anytime, at Any Age

By: Marlo Thomas

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, January Lavoy, Michele Pawk, Lois Smith, Marlo Thomas

Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Right Words at the Right Time comes a one-of-a-kind collection of inspiring stories about ordinary women who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways.

"You can be anything you want to be." "Reach for the moon." "It's never too late to make a change." We've heard it all. But anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows that it can be a bit more complicated - and scary - than that. How do you get up the nerve (and confidence) to actually take the leap? No one knows better than the women profiled in this powerful audiobook by actress, activist, and best-selling author Marlo Thomas.

Using the same kinds of personal stories that made Thomas's landmark collection The Right Words at the Right Time a blockbuster success, It Ain't Over…Till It's Over introduces us to more than 50 amazing women who are proving that it's never too late to live out a dream - to get a PhD, travel the world, launch a business, indulge a creative impulse, make a family recipe famous, or fill a void in life with a challenging new experience. Meet a homemaker who fulfilled a childhood ambition by going to med school at age 43; a widow with three young kids who turned a jewelry-making hobby into a successful business on Etsy; a woman who lived out a childhood dream by taking a cross-country trip (on horseback, no less!); and a sister and mother who channeled their immense grief from losing a brother and son in 9/11 into creating a global foundation to care for the emotionally wounded.

Brimming with anecdotes that will inspire smiles, tears, and - most of all - hope, It Ain't Over speaks to women of all ages with an empowering message: The best is yet to come.

©2014 Marlo Thomas (P)2014 Simon & Schuster

inspiring

It is good to fill your environment with inspiring people like these. Occasionally the language quality was surprisingly good.

Marlo Thomas's Heart Champions Women

Would you consider the audio edition of It Ain't Over...Till It's Over to be better than the print version?

I haven't read the book.

What was one of the most memorable moments of It Ain't Over...Till It's Over?

The amazing stories of enterprising women with interesting lives.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

The authenticity and speed of performance.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Documentary of how older women dare to succeed.

Any additional comments?

An inspiring book if you think about doing something daring in your older years.

Narrations the ruined book for me

What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?

Great stories but I wish that I had read and not listened to this book. There were different narrators, most of whom just seemed a bit overly dramatic which was tiring.