This was a great listen and there are so many people that need to experience it! In this age of being overly familiar with each other and there being no boundaries, so few of us feel that we can avoid answering nosy questions without being rude. The author lays out ways to handle all kinds of situations in this modern age. I also loved finding out that the narrator is the author's daughter and that she helps with writing her mother's column. I love weird facts like that and found this out when googling the author.

My first audiobook review for Goodreads, and it is 5 stars all the way!

This audiobook by Miss Manners (also known as Judith Martin) is read by Jacobina Martin. Of course, being nosy, I immediately had to Google to see if Miss Manners and Jacobina were related. So I was today years old when I learned that in fact Jacobina Martin IS Judith Martin's daughter, AND both Jacobina and her brother Nicholas have been helping write the Miss Manners column with their mother for some time. I also learned that Jacobina Martin is an improv comedian, which explains how she totally nailed Miss Manners' humorous and slightly snarky tone.

At first I was very surprised at the narrator's voice. I perhaps unreasonably expected to hear the voice of a prim, elderly, possibly British aristocrat, as befitting the old fashioned Miss Manners in my mind. Nope! This narrator is young, funny, with a pleasant voice and a straightforward, witty and elegant approach to the manners discussed in the book. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to her.

This book is great because it is a thoroughly modern interpretation of Miss Manners and her advice. Topics tackled are things like: What is "political correctness" as it relates to politeness? What do we do about the highly commercialized/monetized nature of weddings and GoFundMe pages foisted on us nowadays? Does my cell phone go to the left or the right of my plate at a formal place setting? Are there polite ways to sidestep distasteful political conversations with your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving? Overall, this book provides many practical and funny responses to these and other questions dealing with the increased rudeness that seems to crop up more and more in our society nowadays.

As in previous books in earlier years, in this audiobook I ADORED Miss Manners' answers, snark, and humor. (She has been required reading per my mother for as long as I can remember.) I laughed out loud many times listening to this book and found myself taking mental notes to file away some of her proposed responses for future use. Knowing that Miss Manners is now being aided by a younger generation of writers initially took away from some of my nostalgia imagining Miss Manners as the elderly aristocrat I described above, but by about the first 15 minutes of this book, I was fully onboard with the slightly younger and more modern Miss Manners. (If you think about it, Miss Manners has always been a little political and a little ahead of her time - so it's nice that this continues here.) The book is of course full of Miss Manners' traditional puns and sassy comebacks, too.

I highly recommend this book - it's a fast read (clocking in around 5.5 hours of listening time), humorous, and provides a ton of good advice on how to remain polite and gracious in our sometimes trying society.

Thank you to Jacobina Martin, Judith Martin, Noisefloor and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the advance copy of this fun and useful audiobook!