Monday, June 21, 2004
Six Audio Book Reviews, This Week’s Listening Pleasure
Rosie Of The River was written by Catherine Cookson and read very nicely, with good separation of characters through voice and accent, by Susan Jameson. It consists of six audio cassettes and takes about five hours and forty minutes to complete. Catherine Cookson published her first novel at the age...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Five Reviews on the Fly
Murder Gets a Life is an audio book, written by Anne George and deliciously narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister. It contains six cassettes and runs for about eight and one half hours. It is part of a series about mysteries solved by two older sisters and their quirky small town friends in Alabama. The...
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
The U.S.A. is running out of water and farms will dry up, Cadillac Desert
I have just finished reading a book that makes me want to run around shouting like Henny Penny that, "The Sky is Falling!!! The Sky is Falling!!!". She was wrong, but I’d be right. Only I’d be shouting that, "The water supply is finite, the water supply is finite." The book is called Cadillac...
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Four reviews in a rush, Cats, Mammoths, Sand And Fog and Things Unseen
The Cat Who Moved Mountains by Lillian Jackson Braun is narrated by a favorite of many listeners, George Guidall. It is 5 cassettes long, about 7 and one half hours of listening pleasure. This is a famous series about two Siamese cats, Koko the mystery solver and Yum Yum. They belong to 'Qwill', a...
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Saturday, May 8, 2004
6 Audio Book Reviews and Running
Falling Behind and Trying to Catch Up: Short Reviews I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, excerpts from the book, collected here and read by Maya Angelou, explaining how she came to be who she is, from childhood to adulthood. I like to hear her reading her own words. Two cassettes and three hours long....
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Thursday, May 6, 2004
Three Wildly Similar Great Books, for teens and Abuelitas like me.
The best audio book of this group is feed, written by young Mr. M. T. Anderson and read very well by David Aaron Baker. This book has three audio cassette tapes and runs for five hours. It contains wonderfully real and scary ‘feeds’ read by John Beach, Josh Lebowitz, Tara Sands and Anne Twomey. I...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Jane Austen and a book about emails
THE AUTHOR, JANE AUSTEN writes LADY SUSAN Jane Austen wrote her book, LADY SUSAN, over one hundred years ago ( two hundred years ago?), I believe, and though I didn't look it up for this review, as my reviews are not that 'in depth', I think that I'm correct. Well, within a hundred years of the...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Mary Higgins Clark writes semi-scary stuff, but not too bad for my ol heart
TWO BOOKS BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK I have read, or rather, listened to many books by this author. The two that I listened to this week were Silent Night and Before I Say Good-bye. The first book was written in 1995 and consists of four audio tapes and is only three and one half hours long. It is read...
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Saturday, May 1, 2004
THE BLIND ASSASSIN BY Margaret Atwood, grandma's love letter
THE BLIND ASSASSIN BY Margaret Atwood, was written in 2000 and consists of 11 cassette tapes and takes about 18 hours to listen to. It is a novel within a novel and it tells of secret lives within real lives. Let me say that the last few words of the novel read like my About Me Page here on Blogit....
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Irish Writers Touch the Souls of Folks....Maeve Binchy does.....
TARA ROAD by Maeve Binchy This book consists of 15 audio cassettes and is twenty-one and one half hours long. It is read by Jenny Sterlin who uses her voice very well to create separate characters. I liked her reading. Maeve Binchy is internationally known for her many books about life in Ireland. I...
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