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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,592
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,356
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,342
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
One of the best audio books I have heard
Reviewed: 11-27-23
Meryl Streeps performance on this lovely book is perfect. I absolutely cherished listening to it read by her. Highly recommend!
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56,968
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 50,951
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50,618
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite Patchett
- By Regina on 12-07-19
- The Dutch House
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
A wonderful book performed perfectly
Reviewed: 12-10-19
This is a wonderful family story that is beautifully written and the performance by Tom Hanks is stellar. One of my favorite listens in a long time.
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Flying at Night
- By: Rebecca L. Brown
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kivlighan De Montebello, Arthur Morey, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Stay-at-home mom Piper Whitman Hart is too close to her nine-year-old son, Fred, to realize that his idiosyncrasies are signs of something more. And just when his diagnosis of autism sends her life reeling, she's dragged back into the orbit of her emotionally abusive father, Lance, after a heart attack leaves him with brain damage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great account of the struggles to care for a needy ailing parent and a special needs child
- By L. Grueneberg on 11-14-18
- Flying at Night
- By: Rebecca L. Brown
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kivlighan De Montebello, Arthur Morey, Rebecca L. Brown
A great account of the struggles to care for a needy ailing parent and a special needs child
Reviewed: 11-14-18
My son was also diagnosed with Autism while at the same school Rebecca Brown’s children attended. We play in the same park featured in the story (Wingra in Madison, WI), and roamed the same streets. So, there is plenty of personal reasons for me to relate to this story (other than the ailing parent). I can easily imagine the exact streets they are walking down, the geese they are chasing, and the classrooms Fred attended. Even with all of these built-in reasons for me to love this book, I believe it is a wonderful one for all women caring for a special needs child or an ailing parent. She does a great job of chronicling the feelings one experiences while getting through day to day: guilt, longing, regret. I have also cried after watching my son’s peers interacting in an age-appropriate way that I never thought my son would do. I have also felt that great sense of relief in finding other parents with an Autistic child that understand the rudeness and quirkiness that goes along with the territory. My favorite birthday party for my son (age 9 or so) was lightswitch cover themed. It was all he wanted as gifts, and we had a lightswitch cover scavenger hunt. Luckily, his mainly ASD friends all loved it and went along with it enthusiastically. Good job, Rebecca! I would love to meet you at Trader Joe’s or something some day. We would have a lot to talk about.
If you need any lightswitch covers, I have a huge box in the basement :)
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
- A Novel
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,831
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,810
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. She is also Elsa's best and only friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply splendid.
- By B.J. on 07-27-15
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
- A Novel
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
This is one of the deepest most entertaining book I have read in years!
Reviewed: 07-13-16
I read a lot. I've been in a woman's book club for 22 years. I don't remember enjoying a book quite so much as this one in a very long time. I am going to listen to it again as I am sure I missed things the first time and I really want to understand it completely. I can't remember ever doing that before.
The story shows such wisdom and experience. It warmed my heart.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: William Hope, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 226
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was 22 and Henry 30. Impossible but true, because Henry has Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his past, present, and future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- By L. Grueneberg on 04-11-05
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: William Hope, Laurel Lefkow
I loved this book!
Reviewed: 04-11-05
This is one of the better audiobooks I've listened to! I loved the two (male and female) voices, and the story just pulled me in and wouldn't let go!
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