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While I Was Gone
- By: Sue Miller
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 5 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 104
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 104
In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped - for one beautiful, idyllic year - into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel.
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1 out of 5 stars
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ABRIDGED VERISION
- By Kimberly Hansen on 09-24-19
- While I Was Gone
- By: Sue Miller
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
Simply, amazing
Reviewed: 03-23-25
Once in a great while the alchemy of a wonderful book meets its equivalent in a masterful narrator. This is such the case in Blair Brown’s delivery of Sue Miller’s amazing story of austerities that procure forgiveness.
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Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48,308
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41,585
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,245
"I’m James Taylor and I’m a professional autobiographer", says the celebrated folk singer at the start of this tender audio memoir. Through decades of music by one of the best-selling musicians of all time, who created classics like "Fire and Rain" and "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor has doled out his history in the poetry of his work. Taylor says his early life is, "the source of many of my songs", and Break Shot is a tour of his first 21 years in rich, new detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love His Music, Love His Story
- By M. Batt on 01-31-20
- Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
Wonderful stuff!
Reviewed: 02-01-20
I always enjoy hearing anecdotal stories like the ones James told during the “ One Man Band” tour. Thoughtful and articulate with some humor sprinkled in, there are more such stories in “Break Shot” James also deftly conveys the serious events and experiences of his early years and the affect they had on him and on his songs. I loved hearing the little anecdotes like how Carol King’s “ You’ve Got a Friend” was an answer to the lyric in “Fire and Rain” about not being able to find a friend.
A lifelong James Taylor fan, I hope there is another chapter and can’t wait to hear it! Thank you, James!!
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