These Truths is read by the author. It's often a mistake to have the author
read his or her own book. I have no idea why these audio book producers haven't
figured that out and why they don't have the author audition to see if the
narration will be listenable. I'm the one who mentioned that book to you and I
did start it. Then I became distracted by other books and I haven't gotten back
to it. Some of those other nonfiction books, I've finished reading. Some, I've
completely given up on. Some, I've abandoned, in hopes of returning some day. I
struggled through, A Bottle of Lies, which was horrifying. It's about generic
drugs, about how poorly they're manufactured, usually in India, and how the
FDA, even before Trump, hasn't been doing its job properly. One medication
specifically mentioned at the end of the book is one that I take. There's this
huge new book about Frederick Douglas which, I swear, I'll get through some
time in the future. I've read references to him for years, but never truly knew
his whole story. But I've paused several times already. At the moment, I'm
reading the autobiography of the nun who is so involved in the fight against
capital punishment. She was on Democracy Now, recently. She's one or two years
younger than I, and reading about what she actually believes and how she's
gotten there, truly interests me.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2019 2:14 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: book
Thanks Miriam,
I'll try it next. I've finally worked my way through a book entitled, "These
Truths". It would have been very interesting if it had been read buy a
competent person. Actually, the woman reading it must have been recruited to
turn readers away. But I have prevailed! I'm now up to the Clinton years, and
I've lost interest in the rest of the far too familiar story.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/1/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On BARD today, I just found, We've Got People by Ryan Grin. He's the
Washington bureau chief for the Intercept and has been sending emails
about this new book of his for several weeks. It's a book about the
Democratic party. I never expected to see it on BARD. It went up yesterday.
Miriam