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Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Mind Over Money

Claudia Hammond · 2009
🎙 Narrated by Claudia Hammond
72/100
👍 Worth It

Hammond synthesizes over 260 studies on how people actually think about money and packages it into 32 practical takeaways — that is a genuinely useful ratio of research to action. Kirkus called it delightful, Publishers Weekly praised it, and her BBC Radio background means the self-narration is polished and conversational rather than academic. The one honest caveat is that the research base is now a decade old, which matters for a science-grounded book, but the behavioral economics principles she covers have not aged out.

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🎙 Narration: excellent Hammond's BBC Radio background makes her self-narration naturally polished and conversational — one reviewer noted that her radio experience makes the audiobook feel like a well-produced broadcast, not a recorded book.

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Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness79
Craft & writing80
Originality77
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers76
Age-fit79
👁 Human-eye gut-check71
Penny’s verdict72
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