Jonah Adany
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The Stone Diaries
- By: Carol Shields, Penelope Lively - introduction
- Narrated by: Deborah Drakeford
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narrative
- By Deborah H. Holloway on 03-10-24
- The Stone Diaries
- By: Carol Shields, Penelope Lively - introduction
- Narrated by: Deborah Drakeford
basic americana
Reviewed: 10-26-24
simple story of a family but I have no idea why it won a Pulitzer
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,389
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,900
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,889
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- By Jefferson on 02-13-11
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
hardboiled
Reviewed: 07-23-13
What made the experience of listening to Devil in a Blue Dress the most enjoyable?
good narration overall although narrator isn't great at accents.
Would you recommend Devil in a Blue Dress to your friends? Why or why not?
A classic detective novel - so not for everyone. I loved the scene of Watts in the late 40's actually a brilliant idea to take the classic hardboiled detective story out of white LA and into the black areas.
Overall - I enjoy the genre and this book is a classic example - in a good way
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