A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer / Narrated By: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

A mishmash of EVERYthing that adds up to…? Uhm… not much…

24 Hours on the Line

By: Michael Gibney / Narrated By: Fred Berman

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

5 1/2+-hrs. of MEH, and Good GOSH, noooooo!!!

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

Written and Narrated By: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

A wandering academic treatise… with flourishes of purple prose…

By: Isabel Allende / Foreword By: Isabel Allende / Narrated By: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins

Ah Jeez… it’s like watching sausage getting made… poor Paula

Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

Written and Narrated By: Kevin Sites

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Self-Indulgent Trauma Voyeurism set m’ teeth very much on edge

A Dual Memoir of War and Vietnam

By: Susan R. Dixon, Mark M. Smith / Narrated By: Susan R. Dixon, Kevin Basl

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

… I Want My Hours Back … Where on gosh’s green earth did Susan R. Dixon leave her Soul…?!?

A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

By: Jared Ross Hardesty / Narrated By: Joe Barrett

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Yikes, I’ve a feeling Hardesty tried his darn-tootin’ best, but this is a noooo… Weep with me!

By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…

And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean / Narrated By: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

SUCH True Science, I mean, like, reeeeally! has me Wanting ‘bout, ooooh I dunno, TWELVE of My Hours Back…?!

The Tale of Two Cultures

By: Kathryn Haueisen / Narrated By: Elizabeth B. Splaine

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

…Ho. Ly… CRUD…

A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness

By: Cat Cora / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Oy vey: Clueless! clueless! exASPeratingly clueless!

A Memoir

By: Melissa Gould / Narrated By: Rachel Botchan

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Where I FINally lost all sympathy and wanted to throttle Gould… wait for it… wait for it… HERE:

A True Story of Love and Friendship

Written and Narrated By: Martha Teichner

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Jeez! Oh how I haaaate saying with this one: I Want My Hours Back…! Also, a tiiiiiiny bit of a Spoiler Alert within this, sooo…

Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

Written and Narrated By: Brittani Louise Taylor

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Oy Vey—Spoiler Alerts ahead cuz I think I’m gonna save ya some money and some time you’ll never get back…

A Memoir

Written and Narrated By: Bakari Sellers

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

A look at Black working class rural America? I think not. A look at Bakari being an ambitious bit of a buffoon? Oh totally…

By: Helen Fremont / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

So “unsparing” that Fremont should feel some sense of shame…

A Cross-Border Memoir

Written and Narrated By: Jean Guerrero

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Oh UGH!!! Where to start? Where to start?

Written and Narrated By: Anuradha Bhagwati

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Hmm… Would it be possible to haaaate this any more than I do…?

A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son

Written and Narrated By: Buzz Bissinger

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Lovely sons, but BOY is Buzz a despicable father and human being, or what?!?

Finding Peace When Pets Die

By: Jon Katz / Narrated By: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

The takeaway: if you make a mistake with an animal, it’s okay to eat them or send them to slaughterhouses… I’m SERIOUS!

A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

An Audible Exclusive Edition

Written and Narrated By: Rachel Hollis

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

1/3 inspirational, 1/3 exasperating, and 1/3 “Wanna-throttle-her”

End of Life Stories from the Bedside

By Gini Graham Scott, Sebastian Sepulveda MD / Narrated By Marlin May

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Sepulveda reminds us that Life is toooo short to waste on books like this!

A Novel

By: Seishu Hase / Translated By: Alison Watts / Narrated By: Akie Kotabe

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Okaaaay… What. The. HECK! did I just listen to…?

A Novel

By: Ismail Kadare / Narrated by: Gregory Abbey

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

An ATROCITY on sooooo many levels…!!!

Series: Circles in Hell, Book 1

By: Mark Cain / Narrated By: Michael Gilboe

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Whazzis? Did I read the Publisher’s Summary? And did I get the first FOUR books in the series? Did I TOTALLY shoot m’self in the foot…?!

By: Emily X.R. Pan / Narrated By: Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain, David Shih

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

The most unbearably HOT MESS I’ve had the misfortune to have screeched in m’ ears…

By: Alexander C. Kane / Narrated By: Khristine Hvam

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Sometimes? Do NOT go by the cover; do NOT go by the Publisher’s Summary! YIKES and Noooo!!!

By: Genevieve Gornichec / Narrated By: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins

A mighty Booo! + Major Spoiler = This Review… you have been warned…

By: Italo Calvino / Narrated By: Jefferson Mays

Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins

Hmmm… Will this be a delightful Second Listen…?!

By: Rita Williams-Garcia / Narrated By: Machelle Williams

Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins

Not “Mesmerizing”! Not “A Masterpiece”! Not “Honest And Authentic”! Not ANY “…”!

By: Tiffany Odekirk / Narrated By: Noah Wall

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

New Category needed: Jeez! I Want My Daaaaays Back!!!

By: Carol Rivers / Narrated By: Helen Dickens

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

I thiiiiink it was sweet and all that, at least what I didn’t sleep through…

Series: Witching Hour,Book 1

By: Christine Zane Thomas / Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins

Insert Eye-Roll Here… and There… and There… and oh gosh…

By: Douglas Ford / Narrated By: Jenn Lee

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Did I get this on sale? Ah jeez, I’m really hoping I did…

By: Glendy Vanderah / Narrated By: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

When even Lauren Ezzo can’t Save The Day…

Written and Narrated By: Josh Ritter

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

THIS is what happens when ya choose based on the cover art… Just NO!

A Novel

By: Richard Flanagan / Narrated By: Essie Davis

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Oh gosh! Juuust read the Publisher’s Summary! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If this is “dazzling”? I’m shootin’ m’ foot off!

Written and Narrated By: Joanne M Harris

Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins

I have a feeling I was supposed to LOVE this… but can I have Foooour Of My Freakin’ Hours Back?!?

By: Jennifer Moore, Chalon Linton, Jen Geigle Johnson, Heidi Kimball / Narrated By: Aubrey Warner

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Pretty sure the stories are this side of lame, but DANG is the narration what makes this an atrocity, or what?!

By: Jean Meltzer / Narrated By: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Dude… Hard-Up for Hanukkah here

A Novel

Series: Borne

By: Jeff VanderMeer / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Dude! Most of us outgrew LSD, like, our second years of college…!

By: Paul Pen / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Scott Merriman

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Good translation, but OY The Words!!!

A Novel

By: Andrea Camilleri / Narrated By: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins

Good cow—Got taken in by the cute cover and the danged Publisher’s Summary!

2,186 Miles of Friendship

By: Karen Lord Rutter / Narrated By: Charles Winfield

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Sweet, yes, but PLENty of Boooooo tooooo!!!

By: Barbara O'Neal / Narrated By: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins

Bless her sweet, wonderful soul—but not even Bernadette Dunne could save this unholy mess

By: Holly Martin / Narrated By: Penny Andrews

Length: 7 hrs

Uninspiring characters, shallow plot, AND twittery narration? Egad, how annoyed can I be?

By: Amy Meyerson / Narrated By: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Oh my good golly gosh: Ya want your ears shrilled off by a woman old-enough-to-know-better throwing tantrums? Here ya go!

By: Grady Hendrix / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Jiminy H. Freaking Crickets! I was expecting humor, sleuthing, some blood and whimsy! NOPE! Straight horror and characters who are weak until they absolutely HAD to do something.

A Novel

By: Jeanine Cummins / Narrated By: Yareli Arizmendi / Afterword By: Jeanine Cummins

Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins

Don’t dislike it because Cummins is white and writing about brown people; dislike it cuz of sooo many other reasons

By: Candice Carty-Williams / Narrated By: Shvorne Marks

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Dunno when I’ve listened to a less likable heroine…

A Novel

By: Carlos Fuentes/ Translated By: Alfred MacAdam / Narrated By: Tony Chiroldes

Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins

Amazing events in Mexico’s history… as told by a total jerk!

By: Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee / Narrated by: Casey Turner

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

GASP! >Sputter< May I say that I haaaaaaated this?!?