Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
What Every BODY is Saying
Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Paul Costanzo
74/100
👍 Worth It
Navarro's FBI background gives this real teeth — the body-language cues come from genuine field and interrogation experience, not just theory. It can read like a long checklist without much narrative pull, but the frameworks are practical and ethically framed. Paul Costanzo's narration is clear and well-paced for an instructional book like this.
✦ 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 Paul Costanzo narrates the William Morrow Audio edition; reviewers describe his reading as clear and measured, well-matched to the instructional format.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing65
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict74
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