Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Gratitude
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. · 2009
🎙 Narrated by Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. (author-narrated)
68/100
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Penny appreciated that anthropologist Angeles Arrien brings real scholarly chops to this short, three-hour tour of gratitude practices from around the world. It's thoughtfully made and comes from a respected publisher, but it's a slim runtime with no independent reviews to confirm how it lands, and the multi-tradition framing means faith-specific listeners should know going in it's not built around one worldview. Arrien narrates herself, which is a plus, but there's not much to judge the performance against.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Draws on multiple world spiritual traditions rather than a single faith framework — worth flagging for faith-specific listeners.. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated by Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.; roughly 3 hours; no specific quality complaints found, but also no reviews confirming polish.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing65
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit80
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict68
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