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So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Beastly Wilds, Vol. 2
- So You Want to Live the Slow Life?, Book 2
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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How to enjoy the slow life at home!
Mikura is finally starting to get used to his new life in the Beastly Wilds. Things were going great with his Beastfolk neighbors—until one day, he makes a seemingly innocent comment that turns his life completely upside down! Things only get even more interesting when a visit from his parents unearths a mysterious incident from his childhood adventures in the Beastly Wilds! What secrets are the Beastly Wilds keeping, and how will they change his relationship with Techi?
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Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life the children were the only reason she stuck around. These days, though her successful banker son lives nearby, his young wife seems to do everything she can to keep Alice at bay. As for Alice's other son, he has always been something of a stranger and has been traveling for so long that Alice isn't even sure what continent he is on anymore.
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Wonderfully Done!
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The Way Life Should Be
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Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn't want and a life that seems to have somehow just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it - these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine - a charming reminder of a life that could be hers if she could only muster the courage to go after it.
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Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
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When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she's fed up with pretty much everything. Having no patience with Kate's choices, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference.
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Book for foodies
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Isle of Palms
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Dorothea Benton Frank is a treasure of American letters with numerous New York Times best-sellers to her credit and a portfolio full of critical acclaim. “Mixing high drama and high jinks” ( Booklist), her third Lowcountry novel follows the fortunes of the dysfunctional Abbot family. Looking to set her life aright, Anna Lutz Abbot returns to her South Carolina lowcountry hometown. And as she attempts to right past wrongs, Anna receives help and support from a quirky cast of lovable locals sure to endear themselves to listeners.
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A feel good story
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Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia - she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she decides to take a chance and puts her heart and savings into opening a fusion restaurant in Inwood, Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines that have been a source of culinary inspiration to her.
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Great summer read!
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Meg Corey has come to the quaint New England town of Granford, Massachusetts, to sell her mother's old colonial home and apple orchard. Instead, she becomes embroiled in development plans that include her land - and her former flame from Boston. When he's found dead in the new septic tank on her property, the police immediately suspect Meg, whose only ally in town is the plumber Seth Chapin. Together, they'll have to peel back the layers of secrecy that surround the deal in order to find the real murderer.
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Very slow mystery-wise, narrator okay
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Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: Her nemesis is vying for it, too. Well, that and the fact that an elusive assassin wants to see her fry.
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Annoying
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The Christmas Pearl
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Theodora is the matriarch of a family that, in her opinion, has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. They've all come together to South Carolina to celebrate Christmas. But this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey Christmases Theodora grew up with.
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Never too old to learn or to love
- By Debbie on 12-20-13
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Lemon Tart
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Cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of her beautiful young neighbor - a single mother who was mysteriously lured from her home while a lemon tart was baking in her oven. At the heart of Sadie’s search is the woman’s missing two-year-old child. Whoever took the child must be the murderer, but Sadie is certain that the police are looking at all the wrong suspects - including her!
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Loved it!
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By: Josi S. Kilpack
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The Devil in the Kitchen
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- Narrated by: Timothy Bentinck
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In The Devil in the Kitchen, White tells the story behind his ascent from working-class roots to culinary greatness, leaving no dish unserved as he relays raucous and revealing tales featuring some of the biggest names in the food world and beyond, including: Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Albert Roux, Raymond Blanc, Michael Caine, Damien Hirst, and even Prince Charles.
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A chef / restaurateur must.
- By Brandon on 07-18-16
By: Marco Pierre White, and others
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Life, on the Line
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- By: Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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In 2007 chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine. Then, Achatz was diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma - tongue cancer.
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A Tasteless World?
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By: Grant Achatz, and others
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- Simeon Taylor
- 04-08-24
Next please
Hopefully book 3 will come out soon to audiobook so I can continue listening it’s a great story and I enjoy both the book and the narrator who reads the book for audiobook
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-23
Good
Nice and relaxing fantasy slice of life. . . . . . . . . 👍
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- Roland Baywater
- 05-05-23
A good second entry to the series
Wholesome and enjoyable. The narrator's accent compliments the setting of the story well. Looking forward to book three!
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- Story Weaver
- 09-13-23
Peaceful and makes you hungry
This is a warm hearted story about friendship that's unforgettable and to love.😊 read or listen to it and you'll see what I mean. However if you like to cook get both so you can look over the recipes . Of course a cookbook is what you really needed to make the food like the main guy character . So everyone please read this and give the book good reviews so we can read more from this series and to the author please can we have a paperback cookbook?😔😉
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- Connor Patterson
- 08-24-24
Cooking show + Underdeveloped relationships.
The narrator was above average, stayed consistent with which voices he used for which characters and had just enough of them for this small group of characters.
As with the previous book, better than 50% by content of this book was an excuse for the author to show us how to cook some of their favorite dishes and to expound about preserving food. A man conveniently ends up with an inordinate amount of free time and a nearly free source of income. Stick him in a house with two food loving companions who ask all the obvious questions you'd want from an audience, and poof cooking show.
Despite that, the world building and cultural backstory are well developed and compelling. everything from the political situation to the history of the beast folk has been thought through. *side note: Mitochondrial DNA, is probably a good fantasy answer for the whole beast folk following the Mother's line thing.
In all of it, the part that really kept me from enjoying this simple slow story centered around cooking was the way the author conducted the relationship between Mikura (MC) and Techi (love interest). The trope of a cultural misunderstanding leading to a relationship is completely fine, but not actually committing any time to discussing feelings between them like actual adults was not. Any time after the misunderstanding would have worked. Rather than feeling like it was a natural progression of the situation, their relationship just felt like something that the author wanted to happen so it did. I fear an element of Japanese culture that I do not understand may be keeping me from understanding the MC's reasons here. I thought when his mother told him to pull his head out of his butt and think about things that that would be the time, but no. When a secret about his childhood and his memories is later revealed you could see further elements of their childhoods that could have played well into a deep well-developed relationship, but that wasn't how the author chose to do it.
If you enjoy hearing someone talk about cooking, learning about preserving food, and don't mind a little bit of a fantasy-esque story to string it all together then this book is for you.
If on the other hand you're very much in it for the characters and the relationships I believe you will find this to be an okay read but not very satisfying.
4 stars overall for world building
4 stars for the excellent narrator
3 stars for a relationship that just sorta happened
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