Tag: audiobooks
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Audiobook review: “The Windsor Legacy” offers British Royals 101
If you’re looking for a quick listen before you visit Buckingham Palace, this concise history is just the thing.
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Audiobook review: Colwill Brown’s “We Pretty Pieces of Flesh”
Authentic Yorkshire language is foundational, establishing the girls’ world and serving as a measure of how far they have traveled from it.
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Audiobook review: “All Better Now” is a creepy chronicle of a feel-good pandemic
Shusterman leverages the unsettling sense amid pandemic precautions, some people were downright eager to let COVID romp.
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Audiobook review: Heeeeeeere’s “Carson the Magnificent”!
Johnny Carson was a born showman, we learn, but a calculating one: he had the discipline and charisma of a magician.
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Audiobook review: Shelly Mazzanoble’s “How to Dungeon Master Parenting”
Are the skills required to lead players through a quest transferable to the challenge of leading a child from birth to independence?
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Audiobook review: “Of Dice and Men” updated for D&D’s 50th anniversary
“Of Dice and Men” makes an enjoyable and well-timed listen during Dungeons & Dragons’ golden anniversary year.
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Audiobook review: Aria Mia Loberti’s awestruck take on “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
The actor, who reads a portion of Jules Verne’s novel in “All the Light We Cannot See,” has now recorded the entire audiobook.
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Audiobook review: Naoise Dolan’s “The Happy Couple” revives the quarter-life crisis
Audiobook narrators Ayoola Smart and Ben Seymour play it bone-dry. The characters strain to find joy in life, and so too does the listener.
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Audiobook review: Patrick Stewart’s “Making It So” blasts into warp
The “Star Trek” actor’s memoir is carefully judged, richly detailed, often very funny, and — as one would hope — captivatingly performed.
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Audiobook review: In Daniel Kraus’s “Whalefall,” it’s a long way down
This audiobook does indeed convey the sensation of being jammed inside an ailing sperm whale. If only it unfolded in real time.
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Audiobook review: “Hollywood Wives” at 40
While the foibles of Jackie Collins’s characters remain recognizable, the world they lived in is long gone.
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Audiobook review: Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees” gives American Apparel a dressing-down
The author narrates her own account of years working at American Apparel during the company’s hipster heyday.