Scan barcode
A review by bianca89279
Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
4.0
Leigh Sales is a well-respected journalist who has a prime-time show on the ABC - the Australian taxpayer-funded station similar to the NPR in the States and the BBC in the UK.
I was curious to read this best seller book, so I was happy to get it as an audiobook, especially since it was narrated by Sales herself.
Any Ordinary Day was quite interesting. I haven't read any books that looked at tragedy and how people cope and deal with the aftermath of such life-altering events.
Sales interviews a few people who'd experienced tragedies, many of them implanted in the collective Australian minds thanks to the media interest.
I appreciated Sale's candid look at journalism, at what makes a journalist good, how at times, there's a very thin line between getting the story and showing sociopathic traits.
The takeaway for me is that "s--t does happen to good people", sometimes, more than once. There's no reason behind it. Most people are very resilient, beyond anything they could have imagined.
This was another reminder to stay in the moment, to appreciate the mundane, the seemingly boring because you never know.
This counts towards my Aussie Author Challenge 2019 on www.bookloverbookreviews.com
I was curious to read this best seller book, so I was happy to get it as an audiobook, especially since it was narrated by Sales herself.
Any Ordinary Day was quite interesting. I haven't read any books that looked at tragedy and how people cope and deal with the aftermath of such life-altering events.
Sales interviews a few people who'd experienced tragedies, many of them implanted in the collective Australian minds thanks to the media interest.
I appreciated Sale's candid look at journalism, at what makes a journalist good, how at times, there's a very thin line between getting the story and showing sociopathic traits.
The takeaway for me is that "s--t does happen to good people", sometimes, more than once. There's no reason behind it. Most people are very resilient, beyond anything they could have imagined.
This was another reminder to stay in the moment, to appreciate the mundane, the seemingly boring because you never know.
This counts towards my Aussie Author Challenge 2019 on www.bookloverbookreviews.com