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Outstanding,as always

Revisado: 03-13-24

Jackson Lamb, Roddy Ho, and the others, all in character and read so well it couldn’t be done better and, as always, full of twists and turns right up to the very last lines.

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I wish it was even longer.

Revisado: 11-05-23

Her best to date. So many twists and turns and though several were completely unexpected, looking back one could see how well they’d been prepared for. The novel reenforced yet again for me the consequences of strong yet demagogic rhetoric and the power of fraud and how hard these are to expose and the exposers be believed.

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Could any book be better these days?

Revisado: 10-08-23

I cannot do Justice to Patchett’s Tom Lake. It is a jewel that gives me hope and optimism for family and love and just plain decency for the future. The cherry orchard with its lake and cemetery juxtaposed to the summer stock theatre with its lake and the cemetery in Our Town brings the contrast and the connection. Meryl Streep has the perfect voice to do Justice to this wonderful book. I just wish I hadn’t read it so that I could begin anew.

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I didn’t know there could be a better Louise Penny but A World of Curiodities is exactly that.

Revisado: 09-13-23

Penny creates wonderful characters as always but her plotting is stunning. The book twists and turns and gets so exciting—and scary—that you know you must be reading the last in the series. It’s only fault is the necessary but slow opening chapters. But remember them snd read on!

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Gripping historical novel

Revisado: 09-02-23

Although I had foreseen the ending quite early on, it did not detract from my pleasure in the plotting and the truly wonderfully wrought despicable characters. It’s a good summer read—I listened every day as I would take long hikes with my dog. The voices were beautifully done.

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I hadn’t read it for fifty plus years snd it was a total delight

Revisado: 07-25-23

The lovely light satiric voice is beautifully done though Catherine’s gothic fantasies are way over the top. The reader caught the tone of it all.

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I simply adored every minute of this novel

Revisado: 08-28-20

The characters are wonderful. The plot delightful even though one knows half way through how the “mystery” will be revealed. The humor keeps breaking through so I was snorting with laughter. I wish I’d never read it so that I could do it all over again. During this period of political and public health anxiety , it was the only thing I looked forward to every day. Thank you, James McBride and the superb narrator.

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White Privilege, white Nationalism, Being African American

Revisado: 10-17-19

Although the story seemed predictable in its outcome and teaching lessons, it is nonetheless one we need to hear. As a white listener who has,as a teacher, done much training , I found most interesting the final speech to a jury from the defense attorney who thought she understood race (and for most WHite liberal ears, she did— but she really didn’t—until now.

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Over the top melodrama and ever so funny

Revisado: 06-19-18

Great, crazy, melodramatic plot, beautifully read, it makes one giggle then shout with laughter at its absurdity. What a terrific break from the grim news of the day! I thoroughly recommend this short novel-thriller-mystery- love story. (Last category is slim pickings).

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What a pleasure, Carole Boyd and Josephine Tey

Revisado: 02-10-18

I read an audible review recently from someone who had listened to Tey’s Brat Farrar, a book I’d read years ago and forgotten. So I listened to Carole Boyd narrate Brat Farrrar and was entranced. I looked for more Carole Boyd’s narrations and saw another Tey that I didn’t know. Although I probably liked the novel Brat Farrar a bit more, both works made me wonder how what was obviously a crime could be proved so. The Franchise Affair relies more on coincidence than Brat Farrar, a reason for the latter’s superiority. But what was excellent in both was Boyd’s narration as she seems to be able to enter into the voice and nuances of all characters.

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