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Archive for the '2018' Category

Audiobook Review : How To Walk Away by Katherine Center

Title : How To Walk AwayAuthor : Katherine CenterNarrators : Therese PlummerGenre : RomancePublisher : Macmillan AudioListening Length : 11 hours 28 minutesRating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2Narrator Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 Margaret Jacobsen has everything she could have ever wished for – a great new job and a fiancé she is so in love with. Chip, […]

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Audiobook Review : The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George

Title : The Punishment She Deserves Author : Elizabeth George Narrators : Simon Vance Genre : Mystery Publisher : Penguin Audio Listening Length : 22 hours 48 minutes Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 Ever want to get down on your knees and give thanks to the good Lord for creating a fabulous writer […]

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Audiobook Review : Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo

Title : Everybody’s Fool Author : Richard Russo Genre : Fiction (Contemporary) Narrators : Mark Bramhall Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 18 hours 53 minutes Rating : 4.2/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 Everybody’s Fool is the sequel to Nobody’s Fool and was written a good 10 years after that released. It is […]

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Book Review : Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Title : Goodbye, Vitamin Author : Rachel Khong Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Henry Holt & Co. Pages: 208 Rating : 3.5/5 Goodbye Vitamin is a novel about Ruth, a 30 year old woman, who has moved back home for about an year, after her father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Ruth has recently broken […]

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Book Review : What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Title : What Alice Forgot Author : Liane Moriarty Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Berkeley Rating : 2/5 So, I loved, loved, loved Moriarty’s “The Husband’s Secret“. And yes, I’ve read four other Moriarty books, which were not quite as spectacular, but then one always hopes, does one not? Alice falls from her bike during […]

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Audiobook Review : We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Title : We should all be feminists Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Narrators : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Genre : Non-fiction Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 45 minute Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 3/5 “We should all be feminists” is adapted from Adichie’s TEDx talk on the same subject. I enjoyed this […]

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Audiobook Review : A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Title : Dear Ijeawele/ A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Narrators : January LaVoy Genre : Non-fiction Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 1 hour 1 minute Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 “Dear Ijeawele” is a Adichie’s letter to a friend with suggestions on how to […]

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Audiobook Review : Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Title : Skinny Dip Author : Carl Hiaasen Series : Skink Series Narrators : Stephen Hoye Genre : Crime, Humor Publisher : Books On Tape Listening Length : 13 hours 30 minutes Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 Reading Carl Hiaasen has been on my radar a while, and I’ve finally gotten around to […]

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Audiobook Review : All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Title : All Creatures Great and Small Author : James Herriot Narrators : Christopher Timothy Genre : Non-fiction Publisher : Macmillan Audio Listening Length : 15 hours 45 minutes Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 I rarely read non-fiction, but one of my all time favorites in non-fiction is the series of books by […]

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Audiobook Review : The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

Title : The Kitchen House Author : Kathleen Grissom Narrators : Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin Genre : Historical Publisher : Blackstone Audio Listening Length : 12 hours 55 minutes Rating : 2/5 Narrator Rating : 4/5 At 7 years of age Lavinia is brought in as an indentured servant to the plantation of Capt. James […]

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