Finserra reviewed Listening Is an Act of Love by David Isay
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3 stars
This is basically a sales pitch from a company that makes good quality audio recordings of personal biographies, which it then copyrights. The Copyright Office archive copy serves as a geneological record for later generations. Some of the sample personal stories are interesting. For example, there is a woman recording certain memories as she enters advanced Alzheimers. Other people record their experiences with historic events (Pearl Harbor, Katrina). Others record information from newly discovered birth parents. Yet others tell stories of coping with very trying circumstances, such as losing everything in the Great Depression. It has the feel of Studs Terkel's "wworking" about it, but the objects of the stories are more diverse. It's very brief.
