Open Your Heart, Neal Pollack
Open Your Heart, Neal Pollack
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Open Your Heart

Author: Neal Pollack

Narrator: Fred Stella

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/17/2013

Synopsis

After solving the murder of illustrious guru Ajoy Chaterjee, yoga detective Matt Bolster is finally getting some students at his Los Angeles yoga classes. With attendance now hitting the double digits, nothing can stop the Bolster express.When Bolster gets invited to teach at The Gathering, a prestigious yoga retreat run by the renowned Tom Hart, it seems like things can’t get any better. Bolster is a little dubious about the cultish atmosphere, but, as they say in L.A., it’s an honor just to be nominated. What starts off as a relaxing, decadent retreat quickly spirals into deadly chaos that forces Bolster to use all his yoga-detective powers, and also his fists.Open Your Heart, like Neal Pollack’s first Matt Bolster book, Downward-Facing Death, is a biting satire of trendy, sexually-driven yoga culture, where ancient principles of loving enlightenment clash with the darkest corners of human nature. The latest in the Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery series will thrill readers, whether they read it while in Crow Pose or on the couch.

About Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack, "The Greatest Living American Writer," is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling memoirs Alternadad and Stretch; the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature; the novels Never Mind the Pollacks, Jewball, Repeat, and Keep Mars Weird; and Downward-Facing Death and Open Your Heart, a pair of "yoga mysteries." Pollack is currently the editor-in-chief of Book and Film Globe. His twenty-five-year freelance writing credits include a column in Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Men's Journal, Slate, Salon, Nerve, the Federalist, the Drive, Yahoo!, Esquire, the Jewish Daily Forward, Decider, and many other publications large and small. A three-time Jeopardy! champion, a former correspondent for the Cannabist, and a certified yoga instructor, Pollack lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife (the painter Regina Allen), their son Elijah, and a Boston Terrier named Briar.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan on April 12, 2014

Ever since he solved his last case, things have been going pretty well for Matt Bolster, ex-cop and yoga teacher. His yoga class attendance is growing and he is still getting publicity thanks to his friend and yoga blogger, Suzi. When Matt is invited to teach at "the Gathering" he can hardly turn th......more

Goodreads review by Judy A. Kuhl on July 14, 2015

I really need more of the Yoga Detective. I love this series. It has information on yoga that I know nothing about. I feel the need to study more. I'm just a lowly yoga instructor, nothing like the characters in this series. It sure does make me think about my practice, and those I take classes from.......more

Goodreads review by Noah on January 20, 2014

A fun read, but not quite up to the standard of Downward-Facing Death. The edition I read (first Kindle edition) had a ton of proofreading errors: missing words, extra words, there/their, and continuity. This wasn’t a problem with Downward-Facing Death and not something I’ve seen with Pollack’s book......more

Goodreads review by Juno on October 07, 2013

Not quite as effective and the first in the series, but still a good read. I love the yoga/detective combination - it's a surprisingly effective mix and not without insight. Suffers from some technical sloppiness - one character's hair changes color from description to description, a non-functional w......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 01, 2014

Quick read and fun. The drugged "conquer your demons" chapter was The best writing in the book, IMO......more

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