Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
We Stood Upon Stars: Finding God in Lost Places
Roger W Thompson · 2017
🎙 Narrated by John McLain (Oasis Audio)
74/100
👍 Worth It
Thirty-one essays built around wilderness and a grandfather's motorcycle trips is a lovely, unusual structure for a faith memoir, and reviewers specifically call out that it's not preachy - it earns its reflection through vulnerability instead. The essay format may suit browsers better than binge-listeners, and nobody's reviewed narrator John McLain's performance specifically, so that part's a bit of a blind spot. Still, the prose itself is genuinely well-crafted and family-safe.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Narrated by John McLain (not the author); no reviews of his specific performance were found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing80
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit88
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict74
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