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Showing posts with label audiobook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audiobook. Show all posts
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Home on Folly Farm by Jane Lovering

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Rating: WARTY! This was an audiobook read very nicely by Rose Robinson, about this woman who inherited her grandfather's sheep far...

The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury

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Rating: WARTY! This is a series of short stories, most of which have very little to do with the sci-fi the author is best known for. ...

Ice Blue by Emma Jameson

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Rating: WARTY! This was another audiobook, and it was read poorly by Matthew Lloyd Davis. Since one of the main characters was female...

Blindsight by Peter Watts

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Rating: WARTY! This wasn't at all what I expected. Often that's a good thing, but in this case it made zero sense, and I have...

The Wharton Gothics by Edith Wharton

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Rating: WARTY! Every so often I give one of the classics a try and seem to have little success. I guess they're just not for me, ...

Essential Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin

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Rating: WARTY! I misunderstood this one completely. I'd thought it was going to be a collection of her best work read by the auth...

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

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Rating: WARTY! Read not well by Claudia Alick. I could not get with her reading style or voice at all, and it sure didn't help th...
Friday, April 2, 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is the first audiobook I've had from Netgalley a...

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Rating: WARTY! This is an 1855 novel about teenager Margaret Hale, who is forced to leave her beloved parsonage when her father rebels...

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

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Rating: WARTY! I DNF'd this about halfway through, annoyed by how cavalierly this author treats a young woman she is supposed to b...
Monday, March 1, 2021

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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Rating: WARTY! In Italian, Divina Commedia or originally just Comedia , this is a poetic work describing a descent into hell by Dante...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Gender Rebels by Anneka Harry

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Rating: WORTHY! Promoted as "50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers", this audio boo...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Ava and Pip by Carol Weston

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Rating: WORTHY! I am not much of a fan of series, so I have to warn up front that this is the first in a series of (so far) three. A...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Andersen's Fairy Tales vol 1 by Hans Christian Andersen

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Rating: WARTY! This really wasn't worth my time or money despite being a discounted copy. Emma Fenney does a fine job reading it ...
Monday, December 14, 2020

A Christmas Cruise Murder by Dawn Brookes

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Rating: WARTY! Read by Alex Lee, this audiobook interested me because I published a cruise ship murder mystery myself some months ago ...
Friday, November 20, 2020

The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock

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Rating: WARTY! This was another waste of money from Chirp with whom I've had some success in garnering audiobooks for my collectio...

The PG Wodehouse Collection by PG Wodehouse

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Rating: WARTY! This was an audiobook collection of short stories and a novel. I'd already heard the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves , in ...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Rating: WARTY! Written in the baker's dozen years that came at the end of the fifteenth century, Canterbury Tales was Chaucer'...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Rating: WARTY! First published in a single novel in 1848, I listened to this - yet another of my forlorn attempts at the classics - as...
Monday, September 14, 2020

The Vanishing Statue by "Carolyn Keene"

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Rating: WARTY! Keene is the usual pseudonym for these books which are not doing well in their present incarnation as far as I can tell....