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All Fours
- A Novel
- By: Miranda July
- Narrated by: Miranda July
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,074
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,994
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,994
Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman.
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1 out of 5 stars
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would not recommend
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-24
- All Fours
- A Novel
- By: Miranda July
- Narrated by: Miranda July
Fever dream for women of a certain age
Reviewed: 01-08-25
This uninhibited and brave exploration of middle age female passions and anxieties is a breath of fresh air. July centers the narrative on a 46 year old woman struggling to understand her desires and social roles as mother, lover, and artist. This is, ironically, new territory for many of us. Also wickedly funny and well written. Loved the narration.
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Damascus Station
- A Novel
- By: David McCloskey
- Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 538
CIA Case Officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Performance !
- By Allenby on 01-02-22
- Damascus Station
- A Novel
- By: David McCloskey
- Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen
Good spy craft story
Reviewed: 12-27-24
This book effectively captures the hard scrabble life of CIA operatives in a war torn middle eastern country. It’s especially interesting to read this following the recent (2024) ouster of Assad from Syria. I sometimes had trouble keeping track of the various Syrian characters when listening to the audio recording. Might have been easier to follow in print.
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Prophet Song
- By: Paul Lynch
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 537
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully powerful Tale.
- By Tom on 01-30-24
- Prophet Song
- By: Paul Lynch
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
Upsetting but well written
Reviewed: 12-04-24
Distressing and all too real story about the impact of rising totalitarianism on every day people. Beautifully written but hard to hear.
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Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,881
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,390
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,391
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Truth doesn’t matter
- By Ru on 03-08-24
- Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
Domestic Violence trigger warning
Reviewed: 11-10-24
On the upside, the plot kept me interested and I didn’t guess the ending. The narrators were phenomenal. On the downside, the amnesia trope is lazy and there is way too much domestic violence.
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The Sequel
- A Novel
- By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4 out of 5 stars 206
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Words are violence, murders are not.
- By Xi Chen on 10-10-24
- The Sequel
- A Novel
- By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Very meta
Reviewed: 11-04-24
This was a satisfying sequel to « The Plot » which was also a fun read. I appreciate the meta commentary on the writing process, wry dialogue, strong anti-hero, and twisted plot. Loved the narrator too.
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The German Heiress
- A Novel
- By: Anika Scott
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 365
Clara Falkenberg, once Germany's most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname "the Iron Fräulein" during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. It’s been nearly two years since the war ended, and she’s left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. With nowhere else to run to, she decides to return home and take refuge with her dear friend, Elisa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I have never heard of a story like this
- By paula wright on 05-18-20
- The German Heiress
- A Novel
- By: Anika Scott
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
I mostly enjoyed this one
Reviewed: 10-27-24
The story focuses on the daughter of a Nazi-era industrialist who assumes a false identity after the war to protect herself from Allied persecution. It is an interesting and less commonly told story, looking at the aftermath of WWII. The protagonist is complicated and not entirely believable but otherwise a good read/listen.
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The Glitch
- By: Leeanne Slade
- Narrated by: Sam Claflin, Daisy Edgar Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,654
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,582
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,582
Five Years Earlier: Henry Dunne knows three things: that agreeing to host this raucous house party was a terrible idea, that he absolutely cannot show up to his nursing shift tomorrow with a hangover, and that the beautiful redhead in the corner will be sleeping in his bed tonight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is NOT a Romcom!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-16-24
- The Glitch
- By: Leeanne Slade
- Narrated by: Sam Claflin, Daisy Edgar Jones
Sentimental love story
Reviewed: 10-10-24
This a story about star crossed lovers, not about time travel. If you like romance then this book may be for you. Sci-fi aficionados will be disappointed. The plot is predictable and overly sentimental but the narrators are good.
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 330
A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author should not have been the reader
- By Raj A. on 09-11-24
- Creation Lake
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
I always finish books. Not this one.
Reviewed: 10-05-24
I almost always finish books but couldn’t get through this one. It’s a meandering and plotless meditation on ? anthropology ? perils of modern life. So dull that I couldn’t bother to figure it out. Also, the reader (the author) was flat, exacerbating the tedium. Don’t bother.
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Light Years from Home
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 51
Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien conspiracy theories, always looking for Jakob.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family Drama with present day scifi aspects.
- By Steve Schiroo on 10-17-22
- Light Years from Home
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Unlikeable dysfunctional people
Reviewed: 09-19-24
I found it hard to listen to this book because the characters were so unlikeable. On top of this, the book is filled with irritating clichés: ridiculous sci-fi tropes; b*tch mother creating miserable children; psychobabling therapist curing her dysfunctional family. The narrator wasn’t given much to work with so i can’t entirely blame her for the snooze inducing reading—except for the botched French accent for one secondary character. I usually like books by this author but should have skipped this one.
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The Paris Agent
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 546
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 546
Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerfully moving story
- By Jennifer Greenfield on 07-28-23
- The Paris Agent
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney
Compelling historical drama
Reviewed: 09-14-24
An inspiring story based on the lives of female SOE agents working in France towards the end of WWII. The characters are well drawn and fun to hear about. Although the outcome of the story was foreshadowed early in the book, I was eager to see how it all came together.
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