Ruth Glass
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Three Days in June
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: J. Smith-Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
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Simple, Enjoyable, performed 5 stars
- By PM on 02-14-25
- Three Days in June
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: J. Smith-Cameron
Real People
Reviewed: 03-07-25
Anne Tyler always manages to capture the essence of real people. Even as we dismiss her characters as much too quirky, sometimes even dislikable, we have to acknowledge similar traits. Most important, she always makes us care about them.
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Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
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The Truth doesn’t matter
- By Ru on 03-08-24
- Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
Stuck With My Order
Reviewed: 12-20-24
This is a waste of a credit. I gather many think it’s funny. I consider it sensationalist and a bit pathetic.
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The Wren, the Wren
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather’s poetry seems to guide her home.
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The different kinds of love, spoken and unspoken in a family.
- By Sheryl L on 05-08-24
- The Wren, the Wren
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, Liza Ross
I couldn’t get past the first hour.
Reviewed: 12-07-23
Didn’t like characters or the little bit of plot I experienced. I usually stick with things. This seems a waste of time.
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Snow
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel - the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.
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Don't read this is you have been sexually abused
- By Babs on 10-26-20
- Snow
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
Characters
Reviewed: 02-07-23
In a good book, one cares about the characters. These were not just flawed, which is fine, they were unlikable.
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The Last Chairlift
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Raquel Beattie, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 47 mins
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In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees.
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Why doesn’t Audible promote John Irving?
- By Ken on 10-21-22
Sensationalist
Reviewed: 01-30-23
I had forgotten how weird and sensationalist John Irving is. A good craftsman, to be sure, but his goal seems to be to alarm or disgust. More pedestrian than clever. I quit halfway.
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The Hive
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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In the Pacific Northwest, police officer Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposé. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who’s pulled millions into her euphoric orbit.
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Just one more chapter then I will sleep.
- By Crystal on 06-15-21
- The Hive
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
Lousy Ending
Reviewed: 01-26-23
Copping out and celebrating crime is never a good message. I wonder what the author’s message about women really is.
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The 6:20 Man
- A Thriller
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.
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A new Baldacci exmilitary protagonist…
- By shelley on 07-13-22
- The 6:20 Man
- A Thriller
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
Formulaic
Reviewed: 10-02-22
I used to love Baldacci’s books. The plot of this one is okay, but he copped out time and again, resorting to cheap gimmicks, sex, and violence. Have a problem? Just create another Murder. Plus his main character was all macho and not much brain. I’ll be hard pressed to read another.
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Young Rich Widows
- A Novel
- By: Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, and others
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside New York City. Four very different women have just lost the loves of their lives: Justine, a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life; Camille, a beautiful, young second wife some suspect is a gold digger; Krystle, committed to leaving the firm to her sons after her husband worked his whole life to support them all; and Meredith, a stripper at the local club who was in a secret relationship.
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Hands Down One of the Most Entertaining Thrillers Ever
- By Brad&Britney on 04-03-22
- Young Rich Widows
- A Novel
- By: Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, Ariel Blake
Stupid and Sexist Stereotypes
Reviewed: 08-30-22
I keep trying to like this but found it stunningly disappointing. Was finally so disgusted I stopped listening. My guess is it was supposed to funny, a spoof. I found it only stupid and incredibly sexist.
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Sparring Partners
- Novellas
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.
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Poor Jeff Daniels
- By Linda Wingrove on 05-31-22
- Sparring Partners
- Novellas
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, John Grisham
Typical Grisham
Reviewed: 08-06-22
Short stories with the Grisham punch and surprises. I especially liked “Strawberry Moon,” a powerful argument against the death penalty through the experiences is a young man sentenced to death at the age of 15.
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Make Russia Great Again
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Buckley
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and best-selling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman - Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff - who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
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It feels like any other white house memoir
- By Debra Gore on 07-15-20
- Make Russia Great Again
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Buckley
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
Antidote to Current Stuff
Reviewed: 10-29-20
Christopher Buckley’s brilliant, biting satire is delightful fun. Just what some doctor ordered. Maybe Fauci??
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