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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,789
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,173
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,097
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Disappointing
Reviewed: 11-15-23
The basic story was a good one. I understand the frustration of the 1950/1960s housewife who wanted more - and the career woman who was not treated equally in the workplace. But I am sick and tired of being preached to about how terrible men are, how evil and misdirected everyone associated with a church is and how unsatisfying and unrewarding it is to be a homemaker. This seems to be the common theme in literature these days.
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,402
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
Three people find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of belonging in this deeply moving novel. Arthur, an old widower struggling to overcome his grief, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who avoids school by hiding out where Arthur goes every day for lunch. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sickly Sweet
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-18
- The Story of Arthur Truluv
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Loved this book
Reviewed: 10-19-22
This was a wonderful book with so many tidbits on living life to its fullest, appreciating the wisdom of older folks and recognizing that everyone who has lived on this earth has a story and leaves a piece of themselves behind.
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The Party Crasher
- A Novel
- By: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 748
It’s been almost two years since Effie’s beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she’s become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: They’ve sold Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie has always called home.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this - poorly written and kind of boring
- By Joan on 10-18-21
- The Party Crasher
- A Novel
- By: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Loved this book!
Reviewed: 04-10-22
Such a fun book! The narrator brought this book alive. I loved envisioning the house. The story was humorous but also nostalgic. One of my favorite reads in the past few years.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45,948
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,573
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,402
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Excellent book!
Reviewed: 12-28-17
This has to be one of my favorite books of all time. This superbly written book by Amor Towles is full of wisdom, history, humor, wit and characters that are full of life. The performance was excellent and the ending perfect. This is not an action novel - it is a novel to savor and mull over. Loved it!
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Countdown
- By: Deborah Wiles
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great story for young, and old!
- By David Hamilton on 02-25-11
- Countdown
- By: Deborah Wiles
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
One of my favorite Audible books!
Reviewed: 07-17-17
Countdown is a wonderful nostalgic historical fictional book about a couple weeks in a the life of an eleven year old in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. For Baby Boomers who remember Duck and Cover, your 5th grade crush, 45 rpm records, older sisters, younger pesky brothers and all the good and bad of our childhood this book is for you. The interjected news clips, songs, commercials and highlights from Bert the Turtle's Duck and Cover movie we watched at school make this a book that is much more effective listened to than read. I think this would be a great Book Club book to discuss with our fellow Boomers or for our adult kids who want to get a glimpse of what our childhoods were like in the 60's. There are definitely themes for today's world as well.
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Commonwealth
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,918
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,119
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly - thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Patchett and Me--In-sympatico
- By Mel on 09-18-16
- Commonwealth
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
Just ok
Reviewed: 02-14-17
The performance of this story was the best thing about it. The story was just ok. I kept waiting for the point. The ending was blah.
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Classical Mythology
- By: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,595
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,268
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,251
These 24 lectures are a vibrant introduction to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Among those you'll investigate are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the gods Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, Dionysos, and Aphrodite; the Greek heroes, Theseus and Heracles (Hercules in the Roman version); and the most famous of all classical myths, the Trojan War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Michelle on 10-13-13
- Classical Mythology
- By: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
Excellent Lectures on Mythology
Reviewed: 09-17-14
Where does Classical Mythology rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is the first of the Great Courses audiobooks I have read and it was so good I will listen to more. Can not compare with the fictional books I have listened to - different genre.
Who was your favorite character and why?
NA
What does Professor Elizabeth Vandiver bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She was a wonderful lecturer who is extremely knowledgeable on her subject. She kept me actively listening the entire time. It was a very complex subject that she gave just enough details for understanding in this basic course. Her voice and manner of speaking kept me engaged.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. I needed to digest the information in between lectures.
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