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The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
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The beauty of the reveal
- By Anonymous User on 03-17-15
- The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
A plodding story told in the most painful way
Reviewed: 06-22-24
I finish nearly all my audiobooks and enjoy 98% of them. This one, however, was a dud that lost me twice and I now see I was wrong to have bothered picking it back up. Lack of sympathetic characters, storytelling that is somehow both boring and confusing. I wanted to listen to a book that centered elder characters but don’t feel I have any new perspective from this book. The one small subset of readers who I imagine may enjoy this book are lovers of Arthurian tales.
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Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause
- An Unexpected Spiritual Journey
- By: Cheryl Bridges Johns
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook goes far beyond hot flashes and gets to the very heart of the midlife journey, helping women find their unique voice and speak their truth in an era of #MeToo and #ChurchToo. Coming alongside listeners as a wise spiritual guide, pastor and theologian Cheryl Bridges Johns identifies seven key developmental "tasks" of menopause and gives practical ways women can embrace each one. She encourages women to view these tasks as gifts as they experience the remarkable physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation that occurs in this stage of life.
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Wouldn’t recommend except to Christians flailing in midlife
- By CJC on 05-18-23
- Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause
- An Unexpected Spiritual Journey
- By: Cheryl Bridges Johns
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Wouldn’t recommend except to Christians flailing in midlife
Reviewed: 05-18-23
I read this book as it was recommended for a seminar I attended. Not coming from a Christian mindset, I was often relieved to find the author taking a feminist perspective and I feel grateful she is in leadership positions in her faith tradition. She seems like a thoughtful and powerful person.
Overall however, this book feels like she took a tidy and worthwhile one-hour lecture and stretched it into a book. I felt some chapters lacked distinction from each other as the author worked to fill them out. I bristled at proscriptive nonsense like “it’s ok to use hormones but don’t OVER-medicate with them” what does this even mean? I really don’t like it when people give women this idea that there’s a “right” way to navigate their menopause transition. I almost stopped reading when she took aim at women who put their “flabby thighs in tight leggings”. Ladies, one of the gifts of menopause is not giving a rip about what others think and I hope you wear whatever your heart desires. I think the author was declaring women don’t need to dress to appear younger but it didn’t land for me.
Special snark because I am a certified menopause practitioner : she touts non-sense about “natural” hormones in the beginning (this is marketing but I get that she’s not a healthcare provider and thought her sources were reliable) and she turns the “i” in perimenopause into an “a” when she pronounces it which is jarring when you have to hear it 5000 times.
I do think that women who have earnestly lived a Christian life and find themselves grappling with their midlife transformation will find more help than harm in this book. Still, I doubt I will recommend it to friends or patients.
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Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth.
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I was rivetted, finished in three days.
- By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
- Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
Interesting historical story, bland modern story
Reviewed: 08-03-22
A pivotal moment in the story (grandmas reaction after Avery mentions Arcadia) makes no sense by the end. Hard to care about rich modern day family’s struggles. In the end, average, but I appreciated the history.
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The Vanished Birds
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning. But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
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Character driven, tech minimum space opera
- By David on 02-08-20
- The Vanished Birds
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
Unique and lovely
Reviewed: 02-13-20
Poetic and probing. I loved that there were same sex partnerships and strong women characters. Eventually stopped what I was doing and just listened to the last few hours.
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The Giver of Stars
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So, when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.
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About time!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-19
- The Giver of Stars
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Courtroom warning
Reviewed: 02-06-20
If I’d known the a good part of the final act was a courtroom drama I might have waited, having just finished Where the Crawdads Sing. Very similar, in that both focus on poor rural US, communion with nature, misunderstood and mistrusted women and miscarriages of justice.
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