The Monastery Murders (Stanton & Barlings #2) Author: E.M. Powell; Genre: Historical Mystery; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: James Langton; Publisher: Brilliance Audio (2018); Rating: [usr 3]. After giving the second book a chance to change my mind about this series, I’ve given up. It’s not a bad mystery or a badly written story, but it just […]
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Patient 3 Author: Chris Chau; Genre: Science-fiction, apocalypse; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Coy Dugger; Publisher: Chris Chau (2019); Rating: [usr 3]. In the near future, the main character is put into a coma-like state to wait for a cure for a mysterious disease. He wakes after seven years to an alien-destroyed world and a quest to
Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari; Genre: History, Anthropology; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Derek Perkins; Publisher: HarperAudio (2017); Rating: [usr 3]. I took my time with this audiobook because I wanted to concentrate on the topic. Dr. Harari highlights the history of cognitive hominids, which is obviously a huge issue to cover
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The Women of the Copper Country Author: Mary Doria Russell; Genre: Historical fiction; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Cassandra Campbell; Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (2019); Rating: [usr 4]. Ancestors of mine were copper miners in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, so I was excited to read this one. This was a character study of several people
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The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Author: Arnold Bennett; Genre: Fiction; Format: Kindle ebook; Publisher: Public Domain; Rating: [usr 4]. This is a delightful story about a young man in early-twentieth-century England who raises himself up by his shirttails (and some luck). Denry is a bit hapless and clumsy as a
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Recursion Author: Blake Crouch; Genre: Science Fiction; Format: Audiobook; Narrators: Jon Lindstrom and Abby Craden; Publisher: Random House Audio (2019); Rating: [usr 4]. This title has very mixed reviews, and there are good reasons for that. Overall, however, the clever plot and the good narration really saved it for me. This is mind-bending science-fiction dealing
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (1891) by Russian realism artist Ilya Repin is actually my husband’s favorite painting, although I like it, too. It depicts the Cossacks supposedly drafting a vulgar reply to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1676, who demanded their allegiance, even though
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Days Without End Author: Sebastian Barry; Genre: Historical fiction; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Aidan Kelly; Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Rating: [usr 4]. This is a fascinating story of a young Irish immigrant to America who joins the US Army in the 1850s. We follow Thomas and his friend—and lover—John through the Indian Wars and then the
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