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Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None -- back to top
Narrator: Dan Stevens
Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
Andrew Gross - The One Man -- back to top
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (book 1) -- back to top
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
★★★★★
Fredrik Backman - Anxious People -- back to top
Narrator: Marin Ireland
Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
★★★★★
Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven -- back to top
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan - Mad Honey -- back to top
Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw
Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
I really enjoyed the book but it was also completely heartbreaking that they make you so fall in love with the murder victim and you know from the start that she was murdered. Very tough.
I also found the very final reveal and outcome from that to be unsatisfactory!
★★★★★
Ann Patchett - The Dutch House -- back to top
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
Stephen King - 11/22/63 -- back to top
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here -- back to top
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
★★★★★
Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -- back to top
4.5-stars
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Quote:
people think intimacy is about sex but it’s about truth
★★★★★
V. E. Schwab - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue -- back to top
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 10-06-20
| Time | Bookmark [~sic] |
|---|---|
| 10:57:14 | Always liked learning... |
| 13:25:19 | thirty is old enough to make decisions |
| 16:05:51 | most fights are not of an instant |
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow -- back to top
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
Release date: 07-05-22
| Time | Bookmark |
|---|---|
| 01:02:28 | “Next time, we fail better” |
| 02:27:35 | "Ones taste exceeds one’s abilities" |
| 02:51:07 | Thoughts on cultural appropriation |
| 04:57:54 | "It was never worth worrying about somebody you didn't love; and it wasn't love if you didn't worry" |
| 05:03:32 | Other life (Things you haven't chosen) |
| 09:19:32 | Luck is because you love the things around you |
| 10:31:22 | Turn ex-lover into a friend |
| 12:23:27 | "The Boredom you speak of...is what most of us call happiness" |
“Sadie, do you see this? This is a persimmon tree! This is my favorite fruit." Marx picked a fat orange persimmon from the tree, and he sat down on the now termite-free wooden deck, and he ate it, juice running down his chin. "Can you believe our luck?" Max said. "We bought a house with a tree that has my actual favorite fruit!"
Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met - he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know - were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had hey just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before
Ann Napolitano - Hello Beautiful -- back to top
Narrated by: Maura Tierney
Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 03-14-23
| Time | Bookmark |
|---|---|
| 02:38:07 | Sylvie’s style |
| 06:51:01 | "We all run into a wall at full speed at one point or another" |
| 09:47:17 | “You can’t fail when your doing what you love” |
| 14:48:30 | “Grief is love; Forgiveness is too” |
★★★★★: Highly recommend it and I still think about this one a lot!
Brandon Sanderson - Tress of the Emerald Sea -- back to top
Tress of the Emerald Sea - A Cosmere Novel
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Series: Secret Projects, Book 1, The Cosmere
Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
Really enjoyed the book. Certainly more than I expected. I like the wit and humor of the narrator and I surprised myself with enjoying the fantasy.
My review to Alicia:
As promised, I am keeping up with sharing really good [audio]books I've finished where I am sad they are over and just really enjoyed my time.
I recently finished Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. I have had mixed luck with fantasy before but this was a major, major hit! In addition to the fun fantasy, it had great wit and general humor. It was supposed to be styled like The Princess Bride and I think it blew that away! It is part of a greater fantasy universe but is standalone.
I read the single-narrator version. There is a full-cast "graphic audio" but I think I made the right choice. I just listened to parts of the full-cast one and found it hard to follow and less engaging.
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi -- back to top
Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 09-15-20
Sangu Mandanna - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches -- back to top
Narrated by: Samara MacLaren
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 08-23-22
Language: English
Cozy and fun. I wish there was more
Ariel Lawhon - The Frozen River -- back to top
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ariel Lawhon
Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 12-05-23
★★★★★
Solid, enjoyable, engaging, fun, read!
My comments to Ann.
I moved The Frozen River up on my list at your suggestion and finished it. It was very, very good. I kept being certain they were going to ruin it with a bad ending but I was very happy with it. I can’t say I guessed it early but once the barn seen started I guessed both the knife that would be used and had a rough guess as to what was to be severed. Happy to see (hear) it come to fruition.
This was on my TBR from "Goodreads top 80 of the last decade" and covered on Instagram, but I moved it up since Ann suggested it.
Anthony Horowitz - Susan Ryeland 2 - Moonflower Murders -- back to top
Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner
Series: Susan Ryeland Series, Book 2
Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 11-10-20
See Anthony Horowitz - Susan Ryeland 1 - Magpie Murders
I ended up really enjoying it! I liked both the story-within-a-story and the outer story. I also found I really liked the way Susan Ryeland carried herself, flaws and all!