false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190400223m/1376068.jpg 1376068 4 StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them for future generations. In New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the country-from small towns to big cities, at Native American reservations and an Army post-StoryCorps is collecting the memories of Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. The project represents a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity, capturing for posterity the stories that define us and bind us together. In <i>Listening Is an Act of Love</i>, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives-to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or caricature. Above all, this book honors the gift each StoryCorps participant has made, from the raw material of his or her life, to the Americans who will come after. We are our history, individually and collectively, and <i>Listening Is an Act of Love</i> touchingly reminds us of this powerful truth. 2276835 8 11 2007 Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project total:819|5:416|4:290|3:94|2:18|1:1| 819 3559 1434 323 5 2 false false Sat Apr 26 05:54:50 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 09:37:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 17:40:23 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 06:54:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 29 11:40:11 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 18 04:59:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Feb 25 18:48:39 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 09:21:38 -0700 2008 5 1 true false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 05:16:04 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 10 09:47:00 -0800 2009
By design it is fragmented into anecdotal excerpts that are transcribed from the best bites...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 14:27:09 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 13:08:35 -0700 2008
My book club selected this book, but there actually wasn't much to discuss, unlike other books we've read. I'd say it's a great book to read, not a great book for book club.

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I finally sat down and listened to the entire CD. I am in awe of these stories, of the people who lived them, and who were brave enough to tell them on tape and submit them...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 31 07:02:27 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 18 19:40:18 -0700 2008 Listening Is an Act of Love is a book of short stories that are filled with slices of everyday life, from normal, everyday people, just like you and me. The only difference between us is that they visited a StoryCorps booth (in New York city or a mobile recording booth) and committed their story to ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 20:49:38 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 16:31:53 -0800 2007
"One of the things that has a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 08:26:03 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 10:02:43 -0800 2008 A selection of narratives from the StoryCorps Project that were compartmentalized into chapters based on what the person was talking about. This book does seem to make truth of the idea that every ordinary and even extraordinary person has something worthwhile to say. My favor...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 15 06:54:45 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 07:28:45 -0800 2009 go sign up!).

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It feels like a gift to read these intimate moments in peoples' lives.

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Listening Is an Act of Love is a compilation of stories from StoryCorps, one of the largest oral history project...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:35:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 23:05:52 -0700 2009
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