Two very different nonfiction audiobooks to recommend!

Hiya!
So, although I’ve been under the weather and have been spending most of my free time sleeping, I have two audiobooks to report on today! I finished OUTLIERS, which I LOVED! Gladwell is always interesting, but I thought the anecdotes and his recommendations for making fairer systems (especially those that effect young children) that will yield several times the success stories were really thought-provoking.

Oh, and I almost forgot- the interview that follows is SO GOOD. Buy the audiobook, and keep listening after it ends, because he tells great stories and some suprisingly personal, revealing stuff from his own past. It's not just a recap of the book - it's a substantial and revealing conversation.

The second audiobook I have to report on is DEWEY. Although it, too, is nonfiction, I imagine it's finding a different audience; however, I enjoyed listening to both of them a lot. I haven’t finished DEWEY because I let the final CD get a little too scuffed when I used it in a very rough manner as a photo prop with a disgruntled cat (hello Eleanor Roosevelt!), but I’m going to get another copy and finish it because the story is just so wonderful! I love cats, but I should admit that I was a little skeptical when I began. I thought it might be too sentimental or silly. However, by the middle of the audiobook, I was totally sold on the idea that this one little cat changed and inspired a town and dramatically affected the lives of several people in it, especially that of author Vicki Myron, who shared a telepathic kind of relationship with the special cat, and relied on him for comfort as she battled cancer. Recommended to all cat lovers and to people who like small-town stories and people who like libraries and people who like being inspired!

Okay ttfn and have a great weekend, everyone!