I listen to Story Corps every Friday on my local NPR station WAMU. I love these so human stories of love, friendship, kinship... I so many times wish I would've interviewed my mother for Story Corps. Take it from me...do not wait! If U R thinking about doing it ...do it!

This book is being released to "6of8" friend and fellow Bc'er. This book is on her wish list.

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A book on wishlist for fellow BC'er "6of8".

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Zippy handed me this book at lunch today. I have been wanting to read it forever -- I remember hearing Story Corps interviews on NPR 15 years ago or more and being fascinated by them. Excited to read this. Thanks!

I used to hear stories from StoryCorps on NPR on Fridays and found the stories of ordinary men and women bring entirely extraordinary. The stories here run from tragic to life-affirming. One of the most intriguing involved a young woman early in her career interviewing her little sister about self-harm. At the time, I doubt many people would have known the older sister, Amy Schumer.

Also fascinating and heartbreaking were the stories from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and the lives that were lost in those seminal events. So much of life is in the little details and this is true even within the stories of larger tragedies.

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6of8 strongly suggested that I might like this book, so I brought it home from today's BC-in-DC meeting, to add to my Mt. TBR mountain range.

I think I was vaguely aware of the existence of Story Corps, but I had never listened to any of the recorded interviews or otherwise encountered any details of the project. Which means I encountered the stories in this book entirely fresh, without any expectations.

The mission of Story Corps is to record the stories of ordinary people, to provide a historical record with details of everyday life in America. The stories included in this collection do just that. They address relationships and home life, the workplace, life journeys, and people's interaction with historic moments. And the nature of the conversations recorded for the project makes these stories both interesting and intimate, glimpses into people's private lives and thoughts. The stories are compelling and demonstrate our common humanity, reminding us of everything we have in common. But the most powerful stories in this collection are those related to the attacks on 11 September 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. These stories transported me back to those moments with the searing pain and loss that they capture. Those particular stories are reminders that behind the numbers that we use to convey the magnitude of the losses are individual stories that can never be conveyed by just looking at statistics.

Left on a bench on the east side of the park.

Released for the 2023 Valentine's challenge and for the 2023 Great Backyard Bird Count challenge.

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