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Justin Winokur's Read Books: Blog 2
Tuesday, May 05, 2026, 08:41 PM
Wayward Pines: 2
Narrated by: Max Meyers
Series: Wayward Pines, Book 2
Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 02-14-23
Series: Blake Crouch - Wayward Pines
Still enjoying it. Maybe even a bit more than the first. Less excited for the third though but I will keep going.
Sunday, May 03, 2026, 11:33 PM
Wayward Pines: 1
Narrated by: Max Meyers
Series: Wayward Pines, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 02-14-23
Series: Blake Crouch - Wayward Pines
Friday, May 01, 2026, 08:14 PM
Narrated by: Stockard Channing
Series: Ramona Quimby, Book 2
Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 10-05-10
Part of the larger "The Ramona Quimby Audio Collection"
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 11:11 PM
By: Emma Knight
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 01-07-25
This book was SO BORING. At one point it seemed like they may be considering having something happen but they got scared and went back to boring. And the way they jumped directly and deeply from one character to another, in a different time/setting, between even just paragraphs, was so frustrating. (To be fair, maybe it was more clear in print?)
"Read with Jenna" steered me wrong :-(
Friday, April 24, 2026, 09:20 PM
Narrated by: Paul Sparks
Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 08-03-21
I enjoyed it enough. I certainly found myself excited to keep reading and to finish (but not in the "get through it sense"). I did think the transition to the second half with Alice Maxwell was hard to swallow and felt kind of out of nowhere. That is why I knocked off half a star.
I was also a bit disappointed with the narrator. He wasn't really bad but his sentences felt disjointed rather than flowing.
Sunday, April 19, 2026, 11:06 AM
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 06-25-24
I generally liked it and would suggest it. I will say, I made the mistake of trusting Super Summary to be careful about spoilers and it failed. So some of it was needlessly spoiled for me!
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 07:45 AM
Narrated by: Stockard Channing
Series: Ramona Quimby, Book 1
Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 10-05-10
Part of the larger "The Ramona Quimby Audio Collection"
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 11:01 PM
By: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Katie Leung, Marisa Calin
Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 06-10-25
I was really disappointed. I really wanted to love this because of how much I loved V. E. Schwab - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and the number of her items I put on my TBR. But this fell flat. It just wasn't that interesting; certainly not 18 hours worth.
I kept finding myself rolling my eyes at a flashback and speeding it up since I didn't care. I hoped they'd matter but not really. And the story just took so long to evolve to something of a demure climax. I am all for character driven novels and character development but this just was...boring.
I also with more of the vampire lore / mythology was developed. It doesn't need to be a long lecture but this one, while left without gaps, also felt incomplete.
I will keep my others of V. E. Schwab's on my TBR but I am a bit hesitant. FWIW--which isn't very much--Goodreads has this one lower ranked and her others much better.