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Chrissie's 2016 books with ratings of both narration and book content, links to reviews, and name of audiobook narrators
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Dec 27, 2015 08:54AM
Here is where I will list the books I read in 2016.
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Book 1: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (375pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Jenna Lamia.
My review: I https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 2: The Fishermen (304 pages so total of 679 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Chukwudi Wuji
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 3: White Nights (64 pages, so total of 743 pages)1 star
with 1 star audiobook narration by Deaver Brown
My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 4: Wayfaring Stranger (435 pages, only read 145 pages, so total of 888 pages)1 star, dumped after 1/3 of the novel
with 1 star audiobook narration by Will Patton.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 5: Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town (378 pages, so total of 1.266 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Phyllida Nash
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 6: The Eternal Husband (137 pages, so total of 1.403 pages)3 stars.
with 1 star audiobook narration by Jim Killavey.
My review: : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 7: Testament of Youth (688 pages, so total of 2.091 pages)3 stars.
with 1 star audiobook narration by Sheila Mitchell.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 8: Marilyn, A Biography (270 pages, so total of 2.361 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Jeff Harding.
My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 9: Can You Forgive Her? (847 pages, so total of 3208 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Timothy West.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 10: Suttree (471 pages, but read only 118, so total of 3.326 pages)Dumped after 1/4 so 1 star.
with 5 star audiobook narration by Richard Poe
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 11: Père Goriot (370 pages, so total of 3.696 pages)4 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Walter Covell.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 12: Cousin Bette (468 pages, so total of 4.164 pages)3 stars.
with 4 star audiobook narration by Johanna Ward (Kate Reading)
My review:
Book 13: The Magnificent Ambersons (288 bages, so total of 4.452 pages) 3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Peter Berkrot.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 14: We, the Drowned (686pages, sop total of 5.138 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Simon Vance
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 15: Les Misérables (1.463 pages, so total of 6.601)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Bill Homewood
My review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Book 15: Les Misérables (1.463 pages, so total of 6.591)Currently reading
with audiobook narration by Bill Homewood
My review."
Yes! Will wait for you opinions. I hope you keep us updated of what you think about it.
dely, we can discuss the book in the comments under my review, even if I haven't written a review yet! OK?
Chrissie wrote: "dely, we can discuss the book in the comments under my review, even if I haven't written a review yet! OK?"Wherever you want. I hope to see if you add some comments in your review. I don't think I receive notifications till I add a comment by my own. I also don't use anymore a lot the homepage with the updates so it happens often that I miss a lot of things.
Well, just check into my review and see what is there. I will go there now and express my first impressions.
Book 16: Sister Carrie (580 pages, so total of 7.181 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by C.M. Hebert
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 17: The Winter of Our Discontent (336 pages, so total of 7.517 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Aaron Baker
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 18: The Sound of One Hand Clapping (425 pages, so total of 7.942 pages)2 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Humphrey Bower
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 19: The Water is Wide: A Memoir (320 pages, so total of 8.262 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Dan Jon Miller
My review:: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 20: Eugénie Grandet (200 pages, so total of 8462 pages) Translator: Sylvia Raphael
3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Jonathan Fried
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 21: Phineas Finn (Phineas Finn (752 pages, so total of 9.214 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Timothy West
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 22: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (832pages, so total of 10.046 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Grover Gardner
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 23: The Prince of Tides (679 pages, so total of 10.725 pages) 2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Frank Muler
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 24: America's First Daughter (624 pages, so total of 11.349 pages)2 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Cassandra Campbell
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 25: Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite (313pages, so total of 11.662 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Tony Britton
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 26: A Room of One's Own (112 pages, so total of 11.774 pages)1 star
with 5 star audiobook narration by Juliet Stevenson
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 27: The Jungle (335 pages, so total of 12.109 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Grover Gardner
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 28: Fair and Tender Ladies (316 pages, so total of 12.425 pages) 4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Kate Forbes
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 29: The Hollow Ground (320 pages, so total of 12.745 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Luci Christian
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 30: Tobacco Road (192 pages, so total of 12.937 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by John MacDonald
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 31: A Doll's House (81 pages, so total of 13.018 pages)4 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by a whole cast of performers:
Calista Flockhart for Nora Helmer - OK, but better at the end
Tony Abatemarco for Dr. Rank - not so good
Tim Dekay for Torvald Helmer - not so good
Jeannie Elias for Anne-Marie and Helene Alving - good
Gregory Itzin for Nils Krogstad - very good
JoBeth Williams for Mrs. Linde - good
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 32: An American Tragedy (859 pages, so total of 13.877 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Dan John Miller
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 33: Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe (512 pages, so total of 14.389 pages)5 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Grace Conlin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 34: All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (263 pages, so total of 14.652 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Michael Patrick MacDonald, the author
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 35: Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart (462 pages, so total of 15.114 pages)3 stars
with 1 star audiobook narration by Corrie James
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 36: Dimestore: A Writer's Life (224 pages, so total of 15.338 pages)2 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Linda Stephens
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 37: East To The Dawn: The Life Of Amelia Earhart (512 pages, so total of 15.850 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Anna Fields
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 38: Bastard Out of Carolina (320 pages, so total of 16.170 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Elizabeth Evans
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Currently reading and already disappointed........
with audiobook narration by Dawn Harvey
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 39: Tuesday Nights in 1980 (336 pages, so total of 16.506 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by George Newbern
My reiew: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 40: Searching for Nannie B. (154 pages, so total of 16.660 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Lee Ann Howlett
Gifted to me in exchange for an honest review.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 41: Even in Paradise (320 pages, so total of 16.980 pages)3 stars
with 3 staraudiobook narration by Correy Allen
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 42: The Bean Trees (232 pages, so total of 17.212 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by C.J. Critt
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 43: But You Did Not Come Back (112 pages, so total of 17.324 pages)5 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Karen Cass
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 44: The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (383 pages, so total of 17.707 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Clair Bloom.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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