Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Words of Gratitude
Robert A. Emmons & Joanna V. Hill · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Pete Cross
79/100
👍 Worth It
Emmons is the actual leading academic researcher on gratitude, and it shows — this pairs real psychological research (like the journaling studies) with an interfaith spiritual lens spanning Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, earning a solid review from Spirituality & Practice. If you're looking for exclusively single-tradition religious framing this may not fit, but Pete Cross's unabridged narration for Dreamscape Media is professional and easy to sit with.
✦ 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: Interfaith framing (Judaism, Christianity, Islam together) rather than single-tradition — worth noting for audiences seeking exclusively Christian content.. We still scored it 79; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Pete Cross delivers standard, professional unabridged nonfiction narration for Dreamscape Media.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing78
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit75
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict79
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