M Kelly
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Too Much Lip
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Wisecracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying, and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Kerry plans to spend 24 hours, tops, over the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river.
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gritty poetic vernacular
- By Julian Wood on 08-06-2020
- Too Much Lip
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Incredible story
Reviewed: 15-08-2020
I hadn't heard of this book until it popped up as a daily deal, and I'm so glad it did. A raw and moving tale of a family and their relationships with each other and the natural world around them. The characters are flawed and beautiful and real.
I was pleasantly surprised to recognise Tamala Shelton's voice narrating this. This is the third book I've listened to her reading and I've enjoyed them all so much. She gives a lot of respect to the stories she reads and brings them to life.
1 person found this helpful
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Ducks, Newburyport
- By: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
- Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of happy couples, Weapons of Mass Destruction and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. A scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster - a heresy, a wonder - and a revolution in the novel.
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Not like anything else I've read
- By M Kelly on 07-06-2020
- Ducks, Newburyport
- By: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
Not like anything else I've read
Reviewed: 07-06-2020
I can see that people could struggle with this book but I loved it. At first it just seems like a jumble of thoughts, and it is, but as it goes on more of a narrative emerges. I really loved the perspective this is told from.
Great narration too, perfect for this book.
3 people found this helpful
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The Testaments
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
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So grateful for more Aunt Lydia!!
- By Anonymous User on 12-09-2019
- The Testaments
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal, Margaret Atwood
Surpasses expectations
Reviewed: 13-09-2019
I've never anticipated a book as eagerly as this and I was not disappointed. Atwood's work doesn't always hit the mark for me and I worried I wouldn't love this, but it's amazing.
It could have done without the last chapter, but it was a reflection if the end if The Handmaid's Tale, so I understand why it was there.
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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magic
- By Dr. Sue Tait on 12-09-2018
- Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
Great narrator
Reviewed: 18-11-2018
The narration makes this wonderful story even better. It is a perfect match. Gorgeous lyrical writing.
3 people found this helpful
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1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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Impossibly Repetitive
- By Anonymous User on 03-10-2018
- 1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
Disappointing and clumsy
Reviewed: 20-04-2018
It read like a teenage boy had written large parts. I don't know any women who think about their own breasts half as much as the female characters in 1Q84. My eyes were nearly rolling out of my head by the end.
3 people found this helpful
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The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
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It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
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Best audiobook in ages
- By Antonia on 18-02-2014
- The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
So engaging
Reviewed: 29-10-2017
I loved it! Despite its length, I want to start at the beginning again immediately.