Listening Well: Bringing Stories of Hope to Life, Heather Morris (2.5)
I was a bit disappointed in this book. Given the author’s previous books (novels based on interviews with Holocaust survivors), I thought she was well suited to write about how to listen well in order to bring those touching and tragic stories forward. The best parts of the book are when she discusses specific parts of those books and how the subjects open up to her. Unfortunately, the writing and/or editing is not very good. Items are repeated, which interrupts the flow; and often the sentence structure seemed lazy (e.g. the word ‘extraordinary’ is used twice in one short sentence). I did get some pointers on how she was able to bring out some of the most difficult stories from her subjects, but the writing was too distracting to enjoy reading.
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