By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Not sure, but I think I might’ve mightily liked this…?!
Love
Bel Canto
By: Ann Patchett / Narrated By: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
Y’all know I haaaaate stories without plots… so why did I wind up liking this? Like, a lot?
Mansfield Park
(Amazon Classics Edition)
By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
A “rediscovered” classic that became a favorite now becomes a TREASURE!
The Jane Austen Society
A Novel
By: Natalie Jenner / Narrated By: Richard Armitage
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
What can I say? I JOYfully deVOURed this in one sitting!!!
Redhead by the Side of the Road
A Novel
By: Anne Tyler / Narrated By: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
Has the feel of a novel outline rather than a fleshed-out novel
The God of Small Things
Two Cousins of Azov
By: Andrea Bennett / Narrated By: Saul Reichlin
Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
Chosen cuz of Saul Reichlin, loved cuz of Andrea Bennett’s creation
The Dog Stars
By: Peter Heller / Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Question: Is this a good story because of Mark Deakins, or in spite of Mark Deakins…?
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
A Novel
By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Feodor Chin / Afterword By: Jamie Ford
Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
Has a bit of a “Author’s first book” feel (Since it is!), but it’s oh so lovely!
The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide / Narrated By: David Shih
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Abrupt ending doesn’t mar the elegance and sensitivity of this story
Convenience Store Woman
By: Sayaka Murata / Translated By: Ginny Tapley Takemori / Narrated By: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Didn’t feel it so much through the first listen, but really picked up on the humor and depth during the second listen
The Wall
By: Marlen Haushofer / Narrated By: Kathe Mazur
Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
Almost five years past my review on Audible, the listen this time? WOW…!
Biloxi
By: Mary Miller / Narrated By: Danny Campbell
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
Woooould be a sweet little listen, but there’s kinda sorta a vein of hatred thrown in throughout…
Around the World in Eighty Days
In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez / Narrated By: Noemi de la Puente, Alma Cuervo, Bianca Carnacho, Melanie Martinez
Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
…Wow… what can I say, but Wow…?
Mother Tongue
The Murmur of Bees
By: Sofía Segovia / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Xe Sands, Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
Absolutely beautiful translation of a gorgeous piece of literary fiction
Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges / Translated By: Andrew Hurley / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
CERTAINLY it’s the translation! It CAN’T be that Borges is full of himself?!?
The House Of Broken Angels
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Five stars! No, six! No, ten! Twenty stars for this BEAUTIFUL book!!!
Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck / Narrated By: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Gary Sinise! What fantastic narration!