No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler

No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653631 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653631] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Judgment: Essays Author: Lauren Oyler Narrator: Lauren Oyler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: ''The essay collection everyone’s talking about.''—New York A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and more From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world. In her writing for Harper’s, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literature—whether celebratory or scarily harsh—have become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in today’s fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space between the individual and the world seems to get smaller and smaller, and our opinions on books and movies seem to represent something essential about our souls? And to put it bluntly, why should you care what she—or anyone—thinks? In this, her first collection of essays, Oyler writes with about topics like the role of gossip in our exponentially communicative society, the rise and proliferation of autofiction, why we’re all so “vulnerable” these days, and her own anxiety. In her singular prose—sharp yet addictive, expansive yet personal—she encapsulates the world we live and think in with precision and care, delivering a work of cultural criticism as only she can. Bringing to mind the works of such iconic writers as Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, and Terry Castle, No Judgment is a testament to Lauren Oyler’s inimitable wit and her quest to understand how we shape the world through culture. It is a sparkling nonfiction debut from one of today’s most inventive thinkers.

Welcome to Forever by Nathan Tavares

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660783 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660783] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to Forever Author: Nathan Tavares Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Fox is a memory editor—one of the best—gifted in the art of creating real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in the Field of Reeds Center for Memory Recovery, the therapists tell him he was victim of a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe. Thrust into fragments of memories that survived the blast, Fox struggles to rebuild himself and grieve for a man he can’t remember. But his shattered past is unreliable and unfamiliar, echoing itself over and over: his life as a refugee, a memory editor, a loving husband, a man at the center of it all.The world is tearing itself apart to try and forget its sadness, and as Khadija fights for the soul of humanity, Fox races to save Gabe’s—because saving the man he loves might be the key to saving us all.'A work of artistic maturity, dazzling imagination and a horrible sense of foresight over what might come to pass.'—Chris McCrudden, author of Battlestar Suburbia

I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself by Eli Rallo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659007 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659007] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself Author: Eli Rallo Narrator: Eli Rallo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: **A Publisher's Weekly Bestseller** From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on modern dating and romance with tips, tricks, and survival-guide style rules. I Didn’t Know I Needed This is the dose of confidence every girl needs to live their life on their own terms. Eli Rallo is a social media superstar, a Carrie Bradshaw for the TikTok age, a true romantic at heart, and the best friend every young woman wishes she had. As someone who prides herself in feeling fully and deeply, Eli is on the ride with you, kissing the frogs, sending (and deleting) the risky DMs, climbing down frat house gutters, making the friends you’ll have for life, all while finding love and falling in love with yourself and learning that everything will be alright. In this earnest and vulnerable look at what it’s really like to date as a young woman in the modern world of dating apps, rotating rosters, and social media snafus, Eli gives her rules for each stage of the game—tried and true tricks of the trade. I Didn't Know I Needed This follows the natural lifecycle of dating, starting with being single, flirting, and navigating the apps to going on dates, having sex, falling in love, and managing relationships, to finally dealing with heartbreak, finding closure, prioritizing your friends, and honoring your life. Discover the rules that have worked for her, and garnered her more than a half million TikTok followers: prep for a first date like an athlete before a big game try a person out in different settings before committing to them plan the second date while you’re out on the first find your perfect “eff me sweater” flirt with your partner, no matter how long you’ve been together give yourself a set mourning period to wallow after a breakup, and then stick to it always (always!) communicate your needs, wants, desires, and boundaries find little ways to love your life and treat yourself With touching stories of her own adventures and mishaps, Eli helps you navigate dating in a way that’s frank, honest, funny, and relatable, giving the advice that you didn’t even know you needed.

Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel by Catherine Wigginton Greene, Christine Platt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/674831 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/674831] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel Author: Catherine Wigginton Greene, Christine Platt Narrator: Nicole Lewis, Christine Lakin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers—one white, one Black—living in a ''perfect'' suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America’s all-too-familiar racial reckoning. De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De’Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself struggling to adjust to her new community. To ease the transition, her therapist proposes a challenge: make a white girlfriend.  When Rebecca Myland learns about her new neighbors, the Whitmans, she's thrilled. As chair of the Parent Diversity Committee at her daughters’ school, she’s championed racial diversity in the community—and what could be better than a brand-new Black family? It’s serendipitous when her daughter, Isabella, and Nina become best friends on the first day of kindergarten. Now, Rebecca can put everything she’s learned about antiracism into practice—especially those oh-so-informative social media posts. And finally, the Parent Diversity Committee will have some… well, diversity.   Following her therapist’s suggestion, De’Andrea reluctantly joins Rebecca’s committee. The painfully earnest white woman is so overly eager it makes De’Andrea wonder if Rebecca’s therapist told her to make a Black friend! But when Rolling Hill’s rising racial sentiments bring the two women together in common cause, they find it isn’t the only thing they have in common. . . .

Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn't Total Garbage by Rafi Kohan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678557 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678557] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn't Total Garbage Author: Rafi Kohan Narrator: Rafi Kohan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: “You’re mad at me, but I am killing you.”—NBA star Gary Payton “Find the hate.”—NFL star Warren Sapp “Why can’t you be more like Rafi Kohan?”—your mom, probably Whether in basketball, football, or MMA, athletes talk trash to each other—and sometimes to fans—like it’s their job. And in some ways, it is: sports only matter if we decide to care about them. And insulting your opponent, or playing the heel, is probably the fastest route to making someone care. Talking smack is as old as the bible; it’s perhaps the original sport. But until now, there’s never been a book about it.   In this lively, often hilarious history, Rafi Kohan interviews some of the world’s top competitors—on the petty rivalries and mind games that fuel them. He talks to point guards and soccer strikers, cricketers and insult comedians, forming a theory along the way about the surprising and influential role that name-calling plays in our world.   Brilliantly original and wide-ranging, Trash Talk is a book for sports fans, culture mavens, or anyone looking to get an edge.