Journal Entry 1 by Catwoman from Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada on Sunday, July 30, 2006

Unabridged CDs 

Journal Entry 2 by Catwoman at fellow bookcrossing member in by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, October 14, 2006

Released 5 yrs ago (10/14/2006 UTC) at fellow bookcrossing member in by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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Mailed to tranq1 today. 

Journal Entry 3 by tranq1 from Tampa, Florida USA on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Received from Catwoman for the Audio VBB on bookrelay. Thank you.

Amazon.com
In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper's ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother's penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper's description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It's the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper's memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there's frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him.

 

Journal Entry 4 by tranq1 from Tampa, Florida USA on Wednesday, March 07, 2007

This is a very painful book to hear. It deals with Anderson Cooper's experiences repoting on wars and natural disasters over the last 15 years. He also tells about very painful parts of his own life. You won't enjoy this book. But it is valuable to hear the horrors that are happening and how the news is covered. 

Journal Entry 5 by tranq1 at to a bookcrosser in sent by mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Released 5 yrs ago (3/20/2007 UTC) at to a bookcrosser in sent by mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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Sending to HoserLauren for the audio VBB on BookObsessed.com 

Journal Entry 6 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Yay! Anderson arrived today.
As I was telling tranq before, I've already read the book and quite enjoyed it, but I thought my grandfather would enjoy listening to it. I'll pass it along to him shortly. 

Journal Entry 7 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Sunday, April 29, 2007

My gramps thought this was interesting, but that it was a bit disjoint (which was pretty much what I thought of it when I read it).

Reserved for bartonz. 

Journal Entry 8 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Sent off today to Bartonz. Enjoy!! 

Journal Entry 9 by bartonz from Bellevue, Washington USA on Saturday, July 07, 2007

It's here! Thanks - I look forward to a listen. 

Journal Entry 10 by bartonz from Bellevue, Washington USA on Thursday, September 20, 2007

It was interesting that the disasters of 2005 brought forward memories Anderson Cooper had attempted to bury from his own past. It was as if the floodwaters of hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami had run through his own personal graveyard and opened up caskets, wrenching his father and brother into the forefront of the apocolyptic scenes he witnessed. It still bothers me that our own country could so easily ignore the needs f our own citizens during that tragic time.

I am reserving this for the September 2007 round of the audio book vbb.