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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- A Novel
- By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrated by: Arina Ii
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,791
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,535
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,531
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee - the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Enjoyable Cup of Coffee Awaits
- By cqgraphicdesign on 11-24-20
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- A Novel
- By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrated by: Arina Ii
A little slow but the more you listen more you understand.
Reviewed: 01-18-22
A beautiful story…it was a little slow at first but upon listening further the author told it in a most touching manner. The reader was very good as well. It is touching and tells of things unspoken before at least in this reader’s opinion.
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Just as I Am
- A Memoir
- By: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6,601
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,869
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,853
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. Here, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Legend and National Treasure
- By Mz Fabulous on 01-29-21
- Just as I Am
- A Memoir
- By: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
Thoroughly enjoyed it
Reviewed: 04-24-21
So I was not sure what to expect but it was not only beautifully written but thoughtful as well. As I have always in my mind thought of Ms. Tyson as African American celebrity royalty I never knew her life was so rich with ups and downs. From her tumultuous infancy to her visions and spirituality.
Most interestingly her love journey with the Miles Davis. Whew child was that ever a journey. But also the correlation between her artistic talents and that of her family. Her blood relation to Don Shirley (the focus of the movie the Green book).
This book is so rich with stories and the narrator was a perfect choice. With the proper Caribbean accents when necessary to the Eastern African American twang when necessary. I enjoyed it and will miss her on screen and her story. Ms. Tyson was unapologetically herself and I applaud and look up to her even more for it.
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,540
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,702
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,661
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece
- By Linda G McDonough on 05-17-20
- Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
J. McBride does it again
Reviewed: 09-18-20
I really enjoyed James McBride memoir "the color of water" when I read it years ago. He did not fail with this novel. The author has an uncanny manner for drawing you into the story and painting several gorgeous pictures as though you are there with the characters. Sport coat was such a rife character whom you would not expect to love. I mean as a New Yorker it made me rethink of the "winos" you see walking around and all the stories they may have and are running from in their addiction to alcohol. The book forces me to rethink the sociological differences of the "New Negro" young African American children who started selling dope as opposed to simply playing the doting role of compliant boy which is what the new negro thought the old man did in order to live up to the "White man's" expectation. I do not want to give to much away but toward the end I shed tears after becoming so vested.
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