Catarina Oconnor
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Yellowface
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,382
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,208
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,208
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Drunk on her own self importance
- By Amazon Customer on 26-05-23
- Yellowface
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
Interesting read on contemporary life
Reviewed: 24-11-24
Interesting read about social media, cancel culture and the impossible standards of modern PC culture.
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Fresh Water for Flowers
- By: Valérie Perrin
- Narrated by: Sara Young
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 179
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues - gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story but TERRIBLE TERRIBLE french accent
- By Katie Whitmore on 10-09-21
- Fresh Water for Flowers
- By: Valérie Perrin
- Narrated by: Sara Young
A big disappointment
Reviewed: 01-09-22
I’m afraid I did not like this book, despite its glorious reviews. I found it went on and on with tales of little interest, a multitude of characters weaving through at different time lines, that was supposed to grab us and our attention. I just found it disinteresting and disjointed. What was the point of the book? It was just a lot of words and fairly insignificant events, weaved and repeated again and again.
As for the narration, I found it annoying that the reader had little experience with French pronunciation. I know the book was in English, but as a French translation it contained a multitude of French names and words that should have been pronounced properly for the prose to flow, and also to better understanding.
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Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers
- A Daughter's Guide
- By: Brenda Stephens LPCC
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 6
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
As the daughter of a mother with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), it may have been difficult to receive the validation and nurturing needed to recognize your value - but there's a road to recovery. Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers is filled with guidance and evidence-based strategies for recognizing what narcissistic abuse is, understanding its effect on your life and core identity, and establishing healthy relationships moving forward.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not so thorough/ terrible narration
- By Catarina Oconnor on 11-02-22
- Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers
- A Daughter's Guide
- By: Brenda Stephens LPCC
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Not so thorough/ terrible narration
Reviewed: 11-02-22
Not as thorough as I had hoped. A bit simplistic. Also the narration was very weird and annoying. Strange intonations and timings.
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The Coroner's Lunch
- By: Colin Cotterill
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Seventy-two-year-old Siri Paiboun is an unlikely candidate for chief coroner in newly-communist Laos, but as the only doctor left in the state there's not much choice. When a party leader's wife turns up dead and Vietnamese bodies surface in a nearby lake, all eyes turn to Dr Siri. Faced with an emerging international crisis, Siri will have to enlist old friends, tribal shamans, forensic deduction, and some good old-fashioned sleuthing before he can discover quite what's going on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a very good listen
- By MISS FARHANA Y CHISHTI on 18-09-15
- The Coroner's Lunch
- By: Colin Cotterill
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
Lovely, witty and different
Reviewed: 11-11-21
I really enjoyed this book despite it being a little detailed on the autopsies. Different, lighthearted and witty alongside it’s accurate depiction of an unfortunate and sinister political history. Having lived in Laos as a youngster in the 80s and loving every minute of it, probably made this book more quaint to me as I could recall many of the places, names, traditions and politics. 😍
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