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Certain Woman of an Age
- Written by: Margaret Trudeau
- Narrated by: Margaret Trudeau
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, mother of Justin Trudeau, Canada's current Prime Minister, and international mental health advocate, brought her intimate staged performance, Certain Woman of an Age, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it was recorded live for Audible Theater. In this "fearless and vulnerable" (Chicago Tribune) one-woman show, Trudeau opens up - with refreshing candor - about her extraordinary life and her encounters with some of the most important icons of our time.
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Heartwarming & Charming
- By Miss Desiree on 2020-04-18
- Certain Woman of an Age
- Written by: Margaret Trudeau
- Narrated by: Margaret Trudeau
Funny, sad and honest
Reviewed: 2020-03-13
I laughed, I cried and I said “Aha!” What a gift Margaret has given us. We all understand her better and understand the bipolar experience, or at least her bipolar experience better. I’m grateful to her.
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Middlemarch
- Written by: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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Middlemarch Forever
- By surprise/nutmeg on 2018-09-18
- Middlemarch
- Written by: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Beautifully read classic.
Reviewed: 2020-03-13
This highly praised novel did not disappoint. The author’s insight into social issues around the time of the 1832 Reform Act is remarkable. Although she wrote it forty years after that time, she was writing about the area she grew up in and her knowledge of it shows. I can hardly wait to listen to more books by the same author and reader.
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A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series, Book 15
- Written by: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
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I wish the narrator had been French Canadian.
- By Gayle Agnew Smith on 2019-12-17
- A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series, Book 15
- Written by: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
British accent out of place
Reviewed: 2019-12-13
I normally like to be read to by someone with an English accent but found it unsatisfying in this case. Mispronunciation of place names eg Abitibi was annoying. I’m sure Judge Pelletier should have Ben pronounced differently. Surely there are French Canadian readers who could have made the experience more authentic.
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