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The Undomestic Goddess
- De: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer, and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can't sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open.
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laugh out loud funny
- De Susan en 05-13-08
- The Undomestic Goddess
- De: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
Meh - I like others of hers much more.
Revisado: 06-27-24
It was predictable, the reader was okay but her male voices were off, the character were caricatures and I feel like she was pandering to stay at home moms a bit (and I am one).
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Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
- De: Katherine J. Chen
- Narrado por: Hannah Morrish
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, becoming an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries.
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Fascinating, Beautifully written
- De Anne Sanchez en 06-16-24
- Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
- De: Katherine J. Chen
- Narrado por: Hannah Morrish
Beautifully written and read, but not much to work with.
Revisado: 06-10-24
The writing is beautiful and the reading elegant, but the story is a little thin. Surprisingly thin, given its history. Chen did what she could to fill in details and give it more depth.
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Leap Year
- How to Make Big Decisions, Be More Resilient and Change Your Life for Good
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Having spent the last few years in Denmark uncovering the secrets of the happiest country in the world, Helen Russell knows it's time to move back to the UK. She thinks. Maybe. Or maybe that's a terrible idea. Like many of us, she suffers from chronic indecision and a fear of change. So she decides to give herself a year for an experiment: to overhaul every area of her life, learn how to embrace change and become a lean, mean decision-making machine.
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My Kind of Person - No Truck with Trump
- De PhryneC en 02-12-17
- Leap Year
- How to Make Big Decisions, Be More Resilient and Change Your Life for Good
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
A worthy follow up
Revisado: 01-18-23
Often follow up stories run out of material, but Russell found a way to keep me entertained without losing her groove. The narrator continues to be delightful as well.
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The Year of Living Danishly
- Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long, dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born or made?
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Interesting content. Unfortunate delivery.
- De Jennifer Soudagar en 11-13-15
- The Year of Living Danishly
- Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
Interesting, witty, charming, overall likability!
Revisado: 01-18-23
Russell has a lovely attitude and charming wit. I learned interesting things about happy Denmark and enjoyed her adventure.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- De: Delia Owens
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- De Kyle en 12-03-19
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- De: Delia Owens
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
I do not understand the fuss about this book.
Revisado: 01-18-23
Mediocre and predictable story, mediocre writing, bland and stereotyped characters. Oh well, to each his own.
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This Is Happiness
- De: Niall Williams
- Narrado por: Dermot Crowley
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.
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Poetry disguised as Prose
- De bobgreenberger en 09-26-20
- This Is Happiness
- De: Niall Williams
- Narrado por: Dermot Crowley
A twinkle-in-the eye delight!
Revisado: 01-17-23
This was an especially meaningful book for me bc it takes place in the area my grandparents came from - mentioned are milltown malbay and spanish point. The humor, values and upstanding character of the town rang so true. It was a true twinkle-in-the-eye Irish delight. I almost gave the story 4 of 5 stars bc I think many will feel it goes on too long, but I loved the slow, meditative pace of the story.
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Life After Life
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.
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Strange & Fascinating
- De Sara en 11-02-15
- Life After Life
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
An astonishing book. A masterpiece.
Revisado: 09-10-22
So original, clever, intelligent and heartfelt . Beautiful prose- so well written. Incredible character development that brings the horrors of WW2 to life as no other book I’ve read has. You come to really know, admire and love this family. I keep listening to it again. It just blew me away! A God in Ruins did as well.
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A God in Ruins
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother, Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
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Mysterious Past--Mysterious Future
- De Sara en 02-16-16
- A God in Ruins
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
Amazing character development
Revisado: 08-14-22
Follows up Life After Life focusing on Teddy, one of the most gentle and noble characters I’ve met in fiction. Brilliant writing that hits the nail on the head. I will think about both books and their main characters for years.
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Parade's End
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 38 h y 12 m
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First published as four separate novels ( Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. A profound portrait of one man’s internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict, Parade’s End bears out Graham Greene’s prediction that "there is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
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A brilliant, challenging, and valuable work
- De leora en 09-11-12
- Parade's End
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
The Masterpiece Theatre production is better
Revisado: 10-07-19
I enjoyed the Masterpiece Theatre series more than the book. It's rare that I don't like a book better than a film. I quit the book, bored, Then I picked it up again after watching and found i more enjoyable, getting more meaning from it.
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
- Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
A well crafted story of a solid, good man.
Revisado: 10-07-19
This book seems to be enjoying a revival - it was written in the early sixties. About the kind of stoic people that don't exist anymore. Thought provoking. Not for you if you need a lot of action, but great if you like a book that you keep thinking about it and questioning it for quite a while after you finish.
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