Becca Wilcox Flanagan
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The Night Guest
- By: Hildur Knútsdóttir, Mary Robinette Kowal - translator
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause. When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same—have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps. Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting & creepy
- By Jaimie Welbourn on 09-20-24
Enthralling, Creepy, Poignant
Reviewed: 01-16-25
I loved the fast-paced nature of this book! The writing is beautiful and SO relatable. Each mysterious and chilling detail draws you more into the story. I feel a bit at a loss now that I have finished the book! I will never forget the line "The Patriarchy spoke with my mother's voice".
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He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- By: S. Jonathan Bass
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair - nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knowledgable loved it
- By Janet Handy on 10-14-18
- He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- By: S. Jonathan Bass
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
A complex, important read - highly recommend
Reviewed: 06-02-22
Just finished the audiobook for this incredible story, finally told in its entirety by the great S Jonathan Bass! The story of Caliph Washington and his life's far-reaching effects on Alabama law (and US law too!) was fastidiously researched and extremely well thought-out; but it was also heart-rending, educational, uplifting, funny at times, condemning, and inspiring as well. I cannot recommend it enough, and am so honored that I got to learn from the author during my time at Samford.
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Purgatorium
- By: J. H. Carnathan
- Narrated by: GraceWright Productions, Tristan Wright, Sarah Grace Wright, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
A handsome, young urban professional awakens inside his cavernous high-rise apartment. He is an emotionless drone of a man content with his self-structured regiment and amazing wealth, and he is totally oblivious to his abnormal lifestyle. He keeps reliving the same day over and over, barely able to remember anything from the day before and unable to maintain mental order as he stumbles through his strange existence. One day, his routine is interrupted when seven strangers separately appear. Everything slams to a halt as they tell him that his physical body is in a coma and his consciousness is currently in a purgatory-like realm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Thought-Provoking Page-Turner
- By Becca Wilcox Flanagan on 09-05-18
Excellent Thought-Provoking Page-Turner
Reviewed: 09-05-18
I have never read a book that made me want to immediately go back and start over and read it all again! All the rich symbolism, the complex realities of what makes up a life, thoughts on what death could be, and how someone can actually achieve redemption make for a totally enveloping literary experience. The surrealism and fast-paced whirl that is time in the Purgatorium mixes beautifully with the glimpses into everyday moments that make the main character who he is. As in real life, it is these moments; big and small, both heart-warming and heart-wrenching at different times, that cause you to reflect on your own life. What are you living for? Is anything in your self-made world worth dying for? Are you truly fulfilled and content, or are you just stuck in your ways? So many important things to think about, though the author is never overly preachy. This book was a thrill to read, and will have repercussions in my life far beyond that of my usual fiction/fantasy/sci-fi picks.
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