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    All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
    All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
    All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
    Audiobook57 minutes

    All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

    Written by David Isay

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    StoryCorps travels America, collecting and preserving the stories of our lives. Each conversation is housed in the Library of Congress, and many are broadcast on NPR#8217;s Morning Edition, heard by millions of listeners each week. Told from the hearts, souls, and lives of individual Americans, these stories make us laugh, cry, think, feel, and know that we are all worth listening to and remembering.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 2, 2012
    ISBN9781611745818
    All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

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    • 4/5
      A sweet and compact collection of oral histories from the StoryCorps project, organized into three sections: Found, Lost, and Found at Last. At a scant 150 pages, a very quick read. And not to judge a book by its cover, but the design is lovely. Would make a nice gift book.Tip: don't read any of the "Lost" chapters in public, lest you become that weird weepy lady on the el.
    • 4/5
      Short and sweet. Or maybe I'm just a sap.
    • 4/5
      This itty bitty little book really picks up momentum as it goes and becomes something quite powerful.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The only thing I could say is it should have had more stories. I read all of the stories twice. The Sept. 11 stories teared me up the most. If you love romance, check out this book.
    • 4/5
      Read on November 24, 2012I need a palate cleanser after finishing A Feast for Crows last night so I picked up this little gem that the bestie told me about a couple of months ago. Oh man. It was perfect!Some of the stories are heartbreaking, but most are inspiring (even the really sad ones are uplifting!). There were many times while reading that Jesse threatened to take the book away from me because I was VERY emotional, but I wouldn't let him.Definitely a quick read, but so great!
    • 5/5
      This collection of stories about Love from StoryCorps is perfect. Each 2-3 page entry tells the story of a 'ordinary' couple who in their own way have extraordinary love lives. The book is divided into three sections - Falling in Love, Loss, and Finding Love. Each story is accompanies by a small photograph at the end showing the storytellers. Each perfectly concise story of love leads you right into the next. This is a book easily devoured in one sitting. Be sure you have time to read them all because the book is simply un-put-downable.
    • 5/5
      Love is all around us. It’s in the way we treat each other as human beings to the relationships that grow over time. In these short stories of love discovered, lost and found people from all over the United States share their varying experiences that at their core speak to the romantic within each of us. From stories of love found at a time of war to the heartbreaking loss of a husband as the building he works in collapses around him each of their stories show humanity at it’s finest and give hope to readers everywhere. Wow. It’s books like this that leave me with the realization I’m an absolute hopeless romantic. This is the reason I think readers here at Chick Lit Reviews and News will love this book. What could be better than honest to goodness true love stories that have happened to real people? This was a book that had me hoping for the very best, laughing at times and on at least one occasion crying uncontrollably. Not all of the stories end in a happily ever after and some even openly admit they wish things were different, but even in a mere two or three pages each couple has an incredible journey to share and I loved them all. All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by David Isay is a book based on the shared stories of numerous couples from around the US who visited a StoryCorps location to record their journey. It’s such a unique concept and it’s actually the first time I’d heard about it. Two people can go to a StoryCorps location and record an “interview” that will then be given to them as well as put in the records at the Library of Congress for future generations to listen to and learn from. In All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps the stories about the relationships & love that have been shared over time were compiled into the book, separated into three categories: Found, Lost and Found at Last. It’s such a brilliant idea and one that I thoroughly enjoyed reading about. Overall I’d say that the most enjoyable parts of All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps for me were the first and second sections. In the first section “Found” each of the couples share how they found and fell in love with the other. Sometimes their stories are absolutely hilarious, one even admitted that she thought her husband was a bit mentally slow initially because he never spoke and just stared at her (turns out he didn’t speak English very well). They aren’t all hilarious though and a few were so wonderfully romantic that it had me thinking about how I could incorporate some of their long lasting marriage advice into my own marriage. The second section in the book was all about losing love, primarily through death. Obviously this was a very melancholy section, but at the same time many of the stories were incredibly hopeful and of course filled with love. As I mentioned earlier one of the stories had me sobbing uncontrollably by the end, but the couple’s story was so moving and I couldn’t help but think I need to remember to value my loved ones even more because of their shared experiences. All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by David Isay is without a doubt one of the most romantic books I’ve ever read. With the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday coming I’d highly recommend this as a gift to someone you love or even simply as a treat for yourself. This is definitely a book I could easily see readers of Chick Lit Reviews and News loving. All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps is a book filled with love, hope, heartbreak and passion. Being the hopeless romantic that I am I fell completely in love with the stories shared by each and every couple in All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps and I know that other readers will as well! Originally reviewed and copyrighted at my site Chick Lit Reviews and News.