Part 19c ~ What Are You Listening to Now?

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Part 19c ~ What Are You Listening to Now?

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1Molly3028
Editado: Ago 30, 2019, 11:39 pm

~Collecting four more months of inviting book posts for 2019~

2Molly3028
Ago 31, 2019, 7:32 am

Enjoying this OverDrive/Kindle NF eBook Alex can narrate for me ~

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

3Molly3028
Editado: Set 15, 2019, 6:02 am

Enjoying this iTunes audiobook ~

The Other Mrs. Miller by Allison Dickson (4 stars)

(domestic thriller/Phoebe had a troubled past with her now dead father, and she has a faltering marriage with her therapist husband/dysfunctional relationships/mysterious woman/satire)

4Molly3028
Set 3, 2019, 3:14 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Social Crimes by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

(NYC society satire/Jo Slater is a socialite who loses everything and plots revenge)

5Molly3028
Editado: Set 12, 2019, 5:59 pm

Enjoyed this OverDrive audiobook ~

Dark Truth by Mariah Stewart
(Truth series, book 3/is an old series of murders related to new murders?)

and

Enjoying this library Playaway audiobook ~

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (5 stars, spooky & twisty)
(modern-day Turn of the Screw tale/Scottish Highlands/nanny job/Echo-type home system/ghostlore/I don't normally like tales which unfold in missive style, but I am enjoying this one/a Scottish lass is the narrator)

6gypsysmom
Set 8, 2019, 2:06 pm

I just finished a quite wonderful audiobook Miracle Creek by Angie Kim. This is a debut work but it seemed very polished to me. It concerns a group of parents who take their disabled children (autism and cerebral palsy) to a hyperbaric oxygen therapy place (HBOT for short) which is supposed to ameliorate their symptoms. I had never heard of HBOT before this but apparently it is a certified therapy for some conditions although it is not recommended for autism and CP but some parents are willing to try anything. There is a fire in the facility and two people are killed and others are quite seriously injured. The book cycles between the points of view of various people including the woman who was the parent of the child killed in the chamber and who was charged with murder. Each person who gives their story has something they are lying about but it is not clear until the end who caused the fire. At the end of the audiobook there is an interview of the author who talks about her writing process and how she proceeded with the story. I would highly recommend it.

7Limelite
Set 8, 2019, 3:55 pm

>6 gypsysmom:

Would you consider visiting this thread and commenting on your reactions there, too?

https://www.librarything.com/topic/310230

8Molly3028
Editado: Set 15, 2019, 6:01 am

Enjoying Vol. 2 of this wonderful 4-vol. collection ~

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency: BBC Radio Casebook Vol.2: Eight BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations by Alexander McCall Smith (5 stars)

https://www.amazon.com/No-1-Ladies-Detective-Agency-dramatisations/dp/B077TG7WX5...

I love these short revisits with my Botswana "friends."

9Molly3028
Editado: Set 12, 2019, 9:37 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding by Hazel Gaynor

(mid 1950s/Sophie is a parfumeur/James is a tabloid photographer/a female and a male narrator)

**Thanks to a Wowbrary.com email, I was #1 in line for this novel**

10gypsysmom
Set 13, 2019, 4:01 pm

I'm listening to Kindred by Olivia E. Butler. It was written and published in 1979 and the story is about an African-American woman who time travels from 1976 to the early 1800s to help someone who was her ancestor. I'm not sure how I missed reading this book before; I am really enjoying it now.

11Molly3028
Editado: Set 18, 2019, 6:37 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb (5 stars)

(latest Eve Dallas tale/2060s/NYC)

*Thanks to my library's Wowbrary.com email, I was #1 in line for this new novel*

12mabith
Set 15, 2019, 12:19 pm

Just starting The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek for my book club. I'm not loving the accent the narrator is doing (just doesn't seem quite right, I'm from WV and I'm pretty used to accents from this part of Appalachia).

13gypsysmom
Set 15, 2019, 5:01 pm

>12 mabith: It's too bad the narrator is spoiling it a bit for you. I read the book this summer and I loved it. Narrators are so important for how an audiobook is rated.

14Molly3028
Editado: Set 21, 2019, 10:27 am

Started this OverDrive audiobook ~

Last Time I Saw You by Liv Constantine (pulled plug early on)

(psych thriller/dysfunction of Baltimore high society/a murder sets off an unexpected chain of events)

replacement ~

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander (4 stars)

(1880s/a spinster and a helpful heir to an earldom/Paris trip to track down a missing traveler)

15jldarden
Set 22, 2019, 1:23 am

Been on quite an audiobook binge lately, currently enjoying Motherless Brooklyn.

16Molly3028
Set 22, 2019, 7:35 am

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Whistleblower by Tess Gerritsen

(romantic suspense/Victor is a hunted man with a major work-place secret/Cathy is a stranger who rescues him and decides to help him/re-release of an early 1990's TG book)

17mabith
Set 22, 2019, 11:55 pm

I'm almost done with the The Hate U Give for a book club. It's good, but a hard read.

18Molly3028
Set 27, 2019, 9:02 am

Enjoying this Kindle-Audible combo ~

A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White

(Dark Lure series/psych thriller/Watt Lake serial killer survivor/Broken Bar Ranch in Canada)

19gypsysmom
Set 28, 2019, 9:01 pm

I listened to a suspense/mystery The Wife by Alafair Burke. You start out rooting for one character and you end up feeling sorry for someone else. Now I am listening to Becoming by Michelle Obama which is narrated by her and she does a great job.

20mabith
Set 29, 2019, 11:49 am

I've started Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty. This is her first adult novel (she normally writes very excellent YA), and I think it's going to be a good one.

21Molly3028
Editado: Out 9, 2019, 11:02 am

Enjoying this Library audiobook ~

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali (5 stars)

(1950s, Tehran upheaval/love of a young couple/60-year separation/Iranian culture)

222wonderY
Out 1, 2019, 1:02 pm

My iPhone speaker is dying and I again have a car with CD player, so my ordering from the libraries isn't in sync yet. Borrowing random stuff off the shelves.

Being George Washington, by Glenn Beck is supposed to humanize GW. Beck gives us the dirt and sweat; but then idolizes him as the singular savior of the Republic, both militarily and politically. Some preachiness mixed in of the "this is how you should form yourself" variety. Valiant Ambition is much better written and covers much the same material.

23mabith
Editado: Out 2, 2019, 4:16 pm

Gravity is the Thing turned out to be really enjoyable for me, and the reader was great throughout.

Just finished 24 Hours in Ancient Rome which was pretty good but I've done a lot of ancient Rome reading and watching, and think it would be more enjoyable for someone less familiar with things.

Working on To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam now, which is excellent.

24Molly3028
Editado: Out 8, 2019, 8:39 am

iTunes audio ~

Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau

(classic essay)

25jldarden
Out 8, 2019, 7:08 pm

26Molly3028
Editado: Out 20, 2019, 12:06 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

The Marriage Game by Alison Weir (4 stars)

(1500s/Tudor era England/tale featuring Elizabeth I & Lord Robert Dudley)

27eo206
Out 12, 2019, 12:27 am

28Sile
Out 12, 2019, 12:32 pm

Surprisingly enjoyable The King of Ireland's Son is what I've been listening to on my commute to, and from work this week.

29mabith
Out 12, 2019, 12:49 pm

I've *just* started Labyrinth Lost, which is a little out of my reading comfort zone (teen fantasy). Reader is okay so far, not the best, not the worst.

30Molly3028
Out 14, 2019, 4:21 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Into the Night (Gemma Woodstock) by Sarah Bailey

(book 2/Melbourne, AU/new police job and new work partner/murders of a homeless man and an actor)

31jldarden
Out 14, 2019, 9:45 pm

32Molly3028
Editado: Out 20, 2019, 12:00 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
by Stephanie Marie Thornton

(1900s/the eldest child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife)

33Molly3028
Out 27, 2019, 1:45 pm

Enjoying this library audiobook ~

The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth

(Australia/domestic suspense/family secrets/post-natal depression)

34mabith
Out 27, 2019, 1:57 pm

352wonderY
Out 27, 2019, 6:26 pm

Listening to The Gift of the Jews. Not a good match with narrator voice, in my opinion. Female, highly cultured voice, more suited to fiction. Not at all how I imagine Cahill should be read, and subject to floating away on the sound without comprehending.

36Molly3028
Out 31, 2019, 12:22 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson

(Lindsay Boxer/continuation of the "Joe" arc)

37gypsysmom
Out 31, 2019, 1:33 pm

I just finished listening to If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, narrated by Bahni Turpin. Baldwin wrote this in 1974 but, sadly, it could probably be written today without any major changes. In fact I listened to An American Marriage by Tayari Jones earlier this year and the story of a black man wrongfully imprisoned for rape is very similare to If Beale Street Could Talk. Baldwin didn't pull any punches in his writing which is gritty, visceral and outrageous at times but he also portrays the love story between Tish and Fonny almost as well as any romantic writer. Turpin is a new narrator for me but she did a good job doing the voice of Tish and was convincing in the male voices as well. It's a disturbing but worthwhile read.

38Molly3028
Editado: Nov 6, 2019, 7:18 am

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane by Elizabeth Boyle (4 stars)

(Rhymes With Love series/London, early 1800s/Louisa Tempest vs. Viscount Wakefield)

392wonderY
Editado: Nov 4, 2019, 9:10 am

I'm about half through Girl Waits With Gun. With Christina Moore narrating, it sounds familiar; but I'm becoming impatient for the plot to turn.

Oh, also Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection. These stories are beginning to blur. I think I prefer de Lint's novel length tales.

40mabith
Nov 4, 2019, 9:34 am

I'm nearing the end of The Recollections of Rifleman Harris the memoir of an English Napoleonic war solider. It was taken as an oral history (as Harris, like the vast majority of ordinary soldiers was illiterate) in 1830 and first published in 1848.

41Molly3028
Nov 6, 2019, 7:57 am

Enjoying this library Playaway audiobook ~

The Oysterville Sewing Circle: A Novel by Susan Wiggs

(Washington state/support group/domestic drama)

422wonderY
Nov 6, 2019, 9:16 am

100 Cupboards is a middle-grade book, first of a series. I'm not caught by the plot, but Wilson does have a talent with the throw-away descriptors.

43mabith
Nov 6, 2019, 10:40 am

Started a re-read on audio of a historical fiction book I read in print when it was new, The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman. Set in 18th century Bristol with partial focus on boxing. Loving it just as much the second time, and the audio production is pretty good.

44jldarden
Nov 7, 2019, 7:27 pm

Just finished Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks. Recommended

45Molly3028
Nov 10, 2019, 8:57 am

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

The Guardians: a novel by John Grisham

(Has the wrong man been in prison for 22 years?)

462wonderY
Nov 10, 2019, 9:07 am

>44 jldarden: Will try that. Looks good.

I brought 100 Cupboards into the house yesterday from the car, but set it down in some mysterious spot, and lost the dang thing.

Started a listen of Gaiman's Neverwhere. I have the BBC film waiting and wanted to refresh my memory. I think I like it in print better. I'm having a tough time following the story. (Perhaps it's the cold meds.)

47CDVicarage
Nov 10, 2019, 9:14 am

I'm reading A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485 and liking it very much. I don't usually read non-fiction in audio but the reader, Roger Davis is very good and the style is not just dry facts but interesting opinions as well.

48Molly3028
Nov 13, 2019, 12:39 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford

(England, 1920s/tale featuring BBC radio's early days)

49gypsysmom
Nov 15, 2019, 8:48 pm

I am currently listening to The Lost Man by Jane Harper. The narrator is Stephen Shanahan who is doing an amazing job IMHO but he seems to be fairly new to the narration biz. I couldn't find any information on him on LT and a Google search shows him as narrating this and Harper's other two book plus 3 books by Candice Fox. This book is set in the outback of Australia. A rancher who was born and raised in the area is found dead of dehydration a number of miles from his vehicle which was well stocked with food and water and which was sound mechanically. So the mystery is why is this man dead. His older brother will try to find out since the police (only one man in the area) don't seem to be spending any time investigating.

50mabith
Nov 16, 2019, 10:16 am

I've started The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin for my book club. I'm not sure I'll be able to attend it due to helping out with my sister and her kids while they're in town (her premature baby is in the NICU in my city as her hospital isn't equipped).

51rhinemaiden
Nov 16, 2019, 9:13 pm

Here's an article in The Guardian about recording audiobooks I thought this group would enjoy:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/16/throat-hurts-brain-hurts-secret-li...

52Molly3028
Editado: Nov 17, 2019, 11:13 am

>51 rhinemaiden:

Thank you very much for the fascinating article about audiobooks and narrating.

The following site page includes an October 2019 Audiofile podcast interview (30 minutes long) with George Guidall (considered to be the best-of-the-best in the field) ~

https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog/talking-with-george-guidall/

53Molly3028
Editado: Nov 27, 2019, 12:43 pm

Enjoyed this audiobook ~

The White Christmas Inn: A Novel (4 stars)
by Colleen Wright

54Molly3028
Editado: Nov 27, 2019, 12:43 pm

Enjoying this audiobook ~

His Mistress by Christmas by Victoria Alexander (5 stars)

(an historical fiction annual fave/Christmas farce/read by Susan Duerden ~ my favorite Regency narrator)

55Molly3028
Editado: Nov 27, 2019, 1:24 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Mad About the Major by Elizabeth Boyle (4 stars)

(Bachelor Chronicles novella/London 1818/the spoiled daughter of a duke and a rake named Major Kingsley/three favors)

56Molly3028
Editado: Dez 1, 2019, 6:56 pm

Enjoying these OverDrive audiobooks ~

Merchant's Daughter (Fairy Tale Romance Series, book 3) by Melanie Dickerson
(England, 1352/a 'Beauty and the Beast' tale/YA Christian lit)

and

Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry
(Dickens-type tale)

57mabith
Editado: Dez 2, 2019, 6:04 pm

I just finished The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, a science-fiction alternative history kind of thing. The premise was great, reader wasn't amazing, but in the end the pacing was really odd and I can't recommend it.

Started a guaranteed nice re-read of Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz.

582wonderY
Dez 2, 2019, 8:22 am

I too find myself re-visiting favorites more this year.

The terrifying trip through the collapsing wormhole ending just as I pulled into my parking space this morning. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

59Molly3028
Dez 4, 2019, 8:54 am

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman

(a Navajo nation series/present-day bombing mystery)

602wonderY
Dez 4, 2019, 9:33 am

I'm listening to The Good Neighbor, biography of Fred Rogers. The reader, LeVar Burton, has an unusual pacing pause within sentences sometimes. Not sure what's up with that. But I'm enjoying the content.

61gypsysmom
Dez 9, 2019, 9:21 pm

I just finished listening to The Reversal by Michael Connelly. It is subtitled as a Lincoln Lawyer Novel but Harry Bosch turns up in it a lot too. I thought it was well done; the ending took me completely by surprise. I'm trying to read or listen to all the Harry Bosch books and felt I needed to include this because it comes right after the book in which Bosch ends up looking after his daughter when her mother is killed. Being a father is quite a change of pace for Harry Bosch the driven detective.

I am now listening to White Teeth and it's probably too soon to tell what I'll think of it. But I am really enjoying listening to the various accents especially the Jamaican lilt of one of the main characters.

62Molly3028
Editado: Dez 9, 2019, 10:52 pm

Enjoying this OverDrive Kindle eBook Alexa is reading to me ~

Holly Blues (a China Bayles Mystery) by Susan Wittig Albert

632wonderY
Dez 10, 2019, 8:51 am

I was attracted to the title. Dear Rachel Maddow begins with a class assignment to write to a hero. The rest of the book are email entries stacked in the Drafts folder, so functioning as a journal of sorts. So, epistolary. It works to some degree. The prose tells the story, but there is too much exposition and description to maintain the conceit. Also, on audio, the repetitive complete reading out of the to and from lines gets tiresome.

64mabith
Dez 10, 2019, 3:45 pm

>63 2wonderY: I do wonder about that audio direction decision to read out e-mail headings completely. The Girls of Riyadh was like that. It's not as though reading it in print we keep reading that every time, it's not really there to be read, just to lend the atmosphere. Oh well!

I've started Not Your Sidekick, which is the first in a YA series I've been meaning to get to. I had a really rough November (and early December), so treating myself to what should be a fun read.

65Molly3028
Editado: Dez 14, 2019, 8:29 am

Enjoying this OverDrive audiobook ~

Ali Cross by James Patterson (4 stars)
(son of Alex Cross/YA mystery/missing friend)

66Molly3028
Editado: Dez 13, 2019, 9:43 am

A Christmas Carol (Reissue)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Patrick Stewart

(Stewart's one-man show on CD
https://www.librarything.com/work/1549/book/176458281)

67Molly3028
Editado: Dez 19, 2019, 3:19 pm

An Amish Cookie Club Christmas (The Amish Cookie Club, book 2) (4+ stars)
by Sarah Price

(Kindle eBook Alexa can read to me/Amish Christmas tales are
always uplifting and a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas)

68Molly3028
Editado: Dez 19, 2019, 3:13 pm

OverDrive audiobook ~

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

(floating bookshop/mating books and patrons is Perdu's daily goal in life/literary apothecary)

69Molly3028
Editado: Dez 20, 2019, 4:42 pm

Enjoying this library MP3 audiobook disc ~

Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries, book 1) by Rhys Bowen

(around 1900, NYC/Irish immigrant/woman detective)

702wonderY
Dez 20, 2019, 9:32 am

>64 mabith: Are you finding good titles to listen to on 'West Virginia Reads'? I've got them on my Overdrive list, but since I have a card from the Belpre Library (I used to work there), I typically use the State Library of Ohio.

71mabith
Dez 20, 2019, 1:40 pm

>70 2wonderY: I'm lucky that Kanawha county is actually part of a different, larger, Overdrive system, WVDELI. I have a WV Reads account as well, through the state library commission, but I don't use it as often. Actually I have an Ohio account too, but I do find a lot of great titles on WVDELI (with shorter hold times as well!).

72Molly3028
Editado: Dez 29, 2019, 6:36 pm

Final 2019 audiobook ~

Lady Osbaldestone And The Missing Christmas Carols (Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles, book 2) by Stephanie Laurens

(1800's/village in England/historical fiction)