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Category: Audible
The Mirror by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Brittany Pressley narrates this second book of the Lost Bride Trilogy as she did the first and third. She brings all the characters, embodied and disembodied, with clarity and humor.
Nora Roberts is becoming a favorite author for me. I am sure these books come across on the page as well as they do in audiobook form.
These aren’t terribly scary but there are moments of terror. Not so much that you can’t read it before sleep.
As the title suggests, this book takes it up a notch: the main character, Sonya, is forced to attend ancestors’ weddings in the past. Through the looking glass (Mirror)!
I enjoyed this so much that I immediately went to Libby and got the next book in the series. So far I am not disappointed.
Please read these if you get the chance.
Inheritance by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m becoming a fan of Nora Roberts. After finishing my last read at midnight, I searched for available audiobooks on Libby. I saw one of hers and decided that would do it. Brittany Pressley narrated this contemporary story. With ghosts!
The main character has spirit to spare, and she takes over her inherited manor with a gusto she didn’t expect to find. The main characters are fun and keep the story going. There’s even a dog that plays an important role.
It only took two nights of reading to finish and start the next book in the series. I can’t wait to continue
If you get the chance, pick this one up. I think you’ll like it, too.
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Meryl Streep narrated this story. It was fun to hear her voice. I do wish the characters had been a little different but that didn’t stop an intriguing story.
This wasn’t a story full of thrills or mystery but rather memory and family. A parent telling stories of her youth. This was a great read for bedtime. Just enougn to keep keep me awake and interested. No tension to add to bad dreams.
Libby supplied this audiobook. I hope you get the chance to read it.
The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lauryn Allman and Ina Marie Smith bring Freida McFadden’s third book in her Housemaid series to life. This book was even more interesting in that it involved the family. The housemaid is married and has two children. She learns that what was easy as a single person is now four times as much.
The layers of personalities are complicated and yet full of love and suspicions. My favorite part was when we could see the issues from the child’s perspective. We often forget that our attempts to protect them can cause more harm than talking it out, painful as that might be.
Now I feel I can go watch the show
I was lucky to find this audiobook on Libby. I highly recommend this fun read if you like a thriller.
The Housemaid’s Wedding by Freida McFadden
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a quick read. Lauryn Allman and Edoardo Ballerini narrate this short story to heighten the intensity of paranoia it instills. I finished in less than an hour and a half. But once started, I knew I couldn’t quit until the characters were safe. Even then, I had trouble falling asleep. Please take that as a warning.
Frieda McFadden writes compelling novels. Now that I am nearly finished with the series, I can’t wait to see how they told the story on the show.
Though I had to wait on hold for a bit, it was worth the wait. Libby has all of these, but they are popular books.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Thank you, Laura, I love this!
I mentioned to my daughter that I was learning to button-train my dog. She suggested I might be interested in this book. She was right.
From the time my children were born, I saw they wanted to learn about the world. I saw that they were deep in thought long before they could speak words. Just as I have noticed with my dog and cats, they saw a lot but had no way to speak in completely understandable ways. Sure, they somehow teach us when to give snacks, clean the litter, or go outside. They seem to understand our words; we understand their actions. But I will still try to find buttons to teach them to talk to us. There is a whole science about this now.
Frans de Waal addresses animal intelligence and how they communicate in their own groups. I cannot find the narrator’s information. After you get used to his way of speaking the text flows and keeps the reader’s interest. This was an Audible version so I can read it again later.
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
These three books were so good that I had to buy the Audible version so I can read/listen to them again and again. Heather Morris’s research and writing were fascinatingly well done! And Finty Williams’s narration just brought the characters to life. She made her voice sound different for every character. I never felt lost as to whose point of view was being expressed.
This book is about the worst and best of people, at the worst time in history. Three sisters are caught up in the worst conditions and separated after promising to stay together and protect each other. I love books about people who care for others, even for those who were seemingly on the wrong side. Even as it seems hopeless, these characters find ways to make it just one more day.
I hope everyone gets a chance to read these books. I was able to read/listen to them first from Libby, but as I said, I look forward to reading them many more times. I may yet buy the paper version, as there are a lot of facts in the afterward that I think I need to look at and absorb.
Since I don’t have a book review ready, I’m still reading the books, I thought it a good time to share what I’m working on.
Though I’m working on the socks when my hands let me but the progress doesn’t show so much.
Mostly I’ve been trying to catch up with reading. Have you seen my TBR/Currently Reading shelf?
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Louise Brealey’s amazing voice narrated Heather Morris’s fascinating novel.
This series is so important to read. We need to feel what people felt as this actual crime happened in history. It may be the only way new generations will believe it. Even those who lived through it didn’t believe it until they were nearly dead from the cruelty.
This series is based on facts told to the author by the Tattooist himself. As many in that generation do, holding the unbelievable truths for the protection of body and soul, he finally wanted to talk. He needed someone to listen to his story.
The fiction in this story gives the listener/reader a basis for understanding the human issues involved. I couldn’t stop reading. The sun was up when I finished. The excitement and the truth the author conveyed at the end of the book kept me awake until morning. I wanted to start the next book in the series, but I attempted to sleep.
I was lucky to find this series on Libby, but I know I will have to read them again and again, so I will buy the Audible versions and maybe even the paperback for the record, when I get paid.
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