Unabridged Audiobook
Remarkable adventure
This was an amazing, thought-provoking true story that I'm so excited to discuss in my book club! Loved this beautiful and exciting journey! The narrator did an amazing job too!
This story is a paean to wild and natural places. I finished with the urge to dust off the tent and pack and set out on my next great adventure in the outdoors. Most memorable are her descriptions of wildlife encounters. I share with the author a love of birds, so I found her observations of and interactions with avian life delightful. I vividly picture some of the more tense moments in her journey involving sea lions, bears, and caribou. However, I was left wondering how the couple actually navigated through a vast and often unchartered territory. These logistical challenges are mentioned only a time or two. Instead we hear more about the author's indecision concerning career and family. I didn't find the narrator's pace to be too fast as did another reviewer. Her words were intelligible; in fact, the tone was too serene in certain instances. For example, there was not much of a change in voice between waxing lyrical about nature's beauty and recalling facing down a predatory bear. For a narrator who successfully toggles back and forth between retrospective meditation and fear in the moment , listen to Things I Learned from Falling.
It is an enormous pity that the narrator speaks sooo fast that it sounds like gibberish. I absolutely cannot understand what she is saying. I would have loved to listen to this book. A waste of money to download. this book should be removed and be re-read by someone who is not in a great rush to finish reading it.
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