Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters
Shannon Bream · 2019
🎙 Narrated by Shannon Bream (author-narrated)
71/100
👍 Worth It
Shannon Bream's path from pageants to the anchor desk makes for an engaging, candid memoir, and her faith comes through as grounding rather than preachy. The critical evidence here is more listener-review than trade-press, so I'm calling this solid rather than spectacular. That said, her own narration is genuinely a highlight - reviewers say she 'hits it out of the park' - so the audiobook is the right way to experience this one.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Author-narrated; listener reviews specifically praise it as honest, candid, and easy to listen to.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing70
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict71
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