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Audition
- A Novel
- By: Katie Kitamura
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 50
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day–partner, parent, creator, muse–and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre
- By Kevin on 04-23-25
- Audition
- A Novel
- By: Katie Kitamura
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Though-provoking and uncomfortable in a good way
Reviewed: 04-10-25
Once I started, I did not want to put it down. Interesting exploration of motherhood, young, adult, childhood, and the roles that we play.
I don’t know how books audiobooks can be produced without editing attention to something like the correct pronunciation of a very important name within the story. Strange.
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How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,652
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,385
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,384
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nope, nope, nope.
- By Karen Johnson on 01-24-23
- How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
Great story
Reviewed: 02-01-23
This was my first book by the author. I found the story to be fresh, sometimes touching, sometimes funny, and sometimes creepy. So glad I stumbled upon it. The reader was good but aren’t there editors or producers to explain to her how “Louise” is pronounced? Or, I could get behind the non-traditional pronunciation if it had been consistent at least. The bouncing back and forth between “Louise” and “Luis” was a big distraction.
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