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vosperonMar 22, 2020

A Long Way Gone [0] is an amazing (and harrowing) first-person account of a child soldier in Sierra Leone. It's not too long of a book, and I highly recommend it.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/03...

nonrecursiveonJune 4, 2010

I have a commute that takes an hour each way on average. Some audiobooks I've enjoyed:

* I Drink For a Reason - very funny

* Stumbling on Happiness (sounds self helpy but is actually a great book on our inability to predict how we will feel about situations in the future)

* A Brief History of Everything - one cool story after another

* A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - hard to bear, but eye-opening

* Getting Unstuck - buddhist talk by Pema Chodron

* Born to Run - great, exciting story. Sometimes I would sit in the parking lot or the driveway after arriving in order to keep listening.

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