Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Gratitude: A Catholic's Guide to Grace, Gratefulness, and Spiritual Growth
Anthony J. Ciorra · 2013
🎙 Narrated by Anthony J. Ciorra (self-narrated)
72/100
👍 Worth It
Fr. Anthony Ciorra brings real theological grounding here, weaving Catholic teaching on grace and gratitude together with modern psychology and closing with a practical tool like a gratitude log. It's doctrinally solid and credible, though it plays more like a college course than a narrative audiobook, which some listeners may find dry. Ciorra narrates his own material capably — not flashy, but it fits the lecture format fine.
✦ 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: good Self-narrated by author/theologian Fr. Ciorra in a lecture-style delivery consistent with the Learn25 course format.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing68
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers45
Age-fit82
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict72
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