The Art of Conversation - Twelve Golden Rules by Josephine Turck Baker ~ Full Audiobook [self help]

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07/28/23

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The Art of Conversation - Twelve Golden Rules by Josephine Turck Baker audiobook.

Genre: self help

In The Art of Conversation - Twelve Golden Rules, Josephine Turck Baker turns the everyday act of talking into a practical craft, showing how small choices in words, tone, and attention can shape friendships, social ease, and first impressions. Written as a lively back-and-forth between two characters, the book teaches by example: a poised conversational guide offers candid corrections while her companion tests each principle in real time, uncovering why certain habits charm and others quietly exhaust the room. Across twelve clear rules, Baker tackles common pitfalls and social anxieties: drowning listeners in needless detail, interrupting, contradicting over trivialities, turning every story into a monologue, or asking questions that feel intrusive or indifferent. She also champions the habits that make talk feel effortless and generous - choosing topics of mutual interest, listening with intention, speaking in harmony with the moment, quoting aptly without mangling meaning, and cultivating tact as the final, essential grace. Part etiquette manual and part character study, this classic guide invites listeners to practice conversation as an art of empathy, restraint, and genuine curiosity.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:11) Chapter 02

(00:09:34) Chapter 03

(00:16:53) Chapter 04

(00:21:08) Chapter 05

(00:26:42) Chapter 06

(00:32:00) Chapter 07

(00:37:24) Chapter 08

(00:44:49) Chapter 09

(00:49:27) Chapter 10

(00:54:42) Chapter 11

(00:58:40) Chapter 12

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Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

July 28, 2023

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429m

Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: adventure

While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place on land, albeit in sight of the sea. In 'A Smile of Fortune', a naive young sea captain falls into grave moral peril when he locks horns with a wily ship chandler in Mauritius. In 'The Secret Sharer', a newly appointed sea captain is confronted with an altogether different kind of challenge when he attempts to haul in a rope ladder over his ship's side one evening and finds it much heavier than usual. In 'Freya of the Seven Isles', Jasper Allen, the captain of a lovely little brig, floats on a cloud of love, expecting soon to marry Freya, the daughter of an East Indies plantation owner, and not taking seriously the pretentions of an older Dutch naval officer who sees himself as Jasper's rival. The depth of psychological insight in these stories is variable, but each is a gripping and suspenseful example of Conrad's magazine fiction in the years immediately preceding the Great War.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:06) Chapter 02

(00:22:09) Chapter 03

(00:39:44) Chapter 04

(00:55:41) Chapter 05

(01:26:51) Chapter 06

(02:03:10) Chapter 07

(02:35:44) Chapter 08

(03:20:13) Chapter 09

(04:08:36) Chapter 10

(04:31:01) Chapter 11

(04:42:52) Chapter 12

(05:08:55) Chapter 13

(05:59:17) Chapter 14

(06:25:28) Chapter 15

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The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

July 29, 2023

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395m

The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne audiobook.

Genre: scifi

A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of an Indian prince. They both decide to go to America and establish their own 'ideal' society. Dr. Sarrasin, the French doctor, is focused on maintaining public health. He builds Ville-France. Professor Schultze, the German scientist, is a bit of a militarist and racist. He builds Stahlstadt and devotes his city to the production of ever more powerful weapons so that he can destroy Sarrasin's city. They manage to get the US to cede sovereignty to two cities so that the two newly rich men can create their utopia. The setting for Ville-France would place it on the Oregon Coast, near Bandon, Oregon. The location for the second city, Stahlstadt, is less clear, but the description would place it somewhere near Roseburg, Oregon

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:31) Chapter 02

(00:49:41) Chapter 03

(01:14:38) Chapter 04

(01:40:49) Chapter 05

(02:08:25) Chapter 06

(02:31:19) Chapter 07

(02:52:35) Chapter 08

(03:25:35) Chapter 09

(03:48:15) Chapter 10