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Chrissie's 2016 books with ratings of both narration and book content, links to reviews, and name of audiobook narrators
Book 46: The Days of Abandonment (188 pages, so total of 18.263 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Hillary Huber
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 47: The Cherry Orchard (96 pages, so total of 18.359 pages)Refuse to rate. I returned the audiobook on completion.
Audiobook narration by Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge, Andrew Sachs and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 48: Georgia O'Keeffe (224 pages, so total of 18.583 pages)4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 49:Royal Highness (360 pages, so total of 18.943 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Simon Vance
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 50: Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams (512 pages, so total of 19.455 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Kirsten Potter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 51: Light Years (308 pages, so total of 19.763 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Mark Boyett
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 52: An American Childhood (255 pages, so total of 20.018 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Alexandra O'Karma
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 53: Hannah Coulter (190 pages, so total of 20.208 pages)2 stars
with 4 staraudiobook narration by Susan Denaker
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 54: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (441 pages, so now 20.649 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by John McDonough
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 55: The Aviator's Wife (416 pages, so total of 21.065 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Lorna Raver
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 56: Gift from the Sea ((130 pages, so total of 21.195 pages)4 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Claudette Colbert
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 57: All That Is (290 pages, so total of 21.485 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Joe Barrett
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 58: Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia (336 pages, so total of 21.821 pages)2 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by David Greene
Mu review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 59: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (473 pages , so total of 22.294 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by David Drummond
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 60: The Ballroom (320pages, so total of 22.614 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Daniel Weyman
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie a good list, I'll read a few of these books myself!
Suhani, so far I have had a pretty good book year. It is nice that we can help each other find good books. Please remember that a three star book is one I can recommend; they are books I have liked.
Book 61: The Summer Guest: A Novel (400 pages, so total of 23.014 pages)2 stars
with 1 star audiobook narration by Julia Emelin, Nancy Reyner and Kirsten Holly Smith
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 62: Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies (381 pages, so total of 23.395 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Eric Martin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 63: A Death in the Family (320 pages, so total of 23.715 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Lloyd James
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 64: Marlene: A Novel (416 pages, so total of 24.131)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Bernadette Dune
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 65: Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation (416 pages, so total of 24.547 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Jan Cramer
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 66: Main Street (454 pages, so total of 25.001 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Brian Emerson
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 67: Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich (496 pages, so total of 25.497 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobooknarration by Jamie Parker
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 68: Corrag (368 pages, so total of 25.865 pages)5 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Caroline Guthrie
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 69: First Ladies (about 320 pages, so total of 26.185 pages)2 stars
with 1 star audiobook narration by Cokie Roberts
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 70: Scaramouche (359 pages, so total of 26.544 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Robert Whitfield (i.e. Simon Vance)
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 71: Sweet Caress (464 pages, so total of 27.008 pages)3 stars
with 1 star audiobook narration by Jilly Bond
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Book 70: Scaramouche (359 pages, so total of 36.539 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Robert Whitfield (i.e. Simon Vance)
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/s..."
Oh dear. I will go now and look with trepidation at your review...
Leslie, Scaramouche just did absolutely nothing for me! I didn't appreciate the writing or the focus on action or the love affair or how the story was told. Nothing. Too cute. Too without depth. Nope, not for me at all. But, I don't mind having read it; I know at least now that this classic isn't for me.
Chrissie wrote: "Book 52: An American Childhood (255 pages, so total of 20.013 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Alexandra O'Karma
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48..."
It's been a few years since I read Annie Dillard, but I loved this book too. Have you read her collection of essays Pilgrim at Tinker Creek? That's my other favorite of hers.
Beth, several have told me that Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is excellent, but I cannot get a hold of it. Makes me annoyed...... For the Time Being is available, but few judge it to be as good. Have you read that one? I don't want to tarnish my view of the author with a mediocre choice. I absolutely loved An American Childhood.
Book 72: Gulag: A History (610 pages, so total of 27.618 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Laural M erlington
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 73: Mr. Vertigo (1 star (read more than half, then gave up)
with 3 star audiobook narration by Kevin Pariseau
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 74: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (512 pages, so total of 28.298 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by John McDonough
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Beth, several have told me that Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is excellent, but I cannot get a hold of it. Makes me annoyed...... For the Time Being is available, but few judge it to be as good. Have you read that one? I don't want to tarnish my view of the author with a mediocre choice. I absolutely loved An American Childhood.I thought For the Time Being was interesting, but it is less personal than either An American Childhood or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It's less focused on the natural world and more on history/religious thought. It's also partly a travel narrative as Dillard visits the places she writes about. It's been years since I read the book (this was before I joined GoodReads) but there are bits of it I really like, even though it isn't my favorite of hers. My favorite quote from the book is probably this one:
“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: A people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time-- or even knew selflessness or courage or literature-- but that it is too late for us. In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.”
Beth, the quote certainly gets me thinking.. Thank you for explaining the central focus of the book and your view of it.
Book 75: Under the Wide and Starry Sky (474 pages, so total of 28.772 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Kirsten Potter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 76: Silent Spring (378 pages, so total of 29.150 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Kaiulani Lee
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 77: Homegoing (305 pages, so total of 29.455 pages)1 star
with 4 star audiook narration by Dominic Hoffman
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 78: Sunset Song (288 pages, so total of 29.743 pages)5 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Eileen McCallum
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 79: Beautiful Ruins (337 pages, so total of 30.080 pages)2 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Edoardo Ballerini
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 80: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (496 pages, so total of 30.576 pages)3 stars
with fullcast audiobook narration
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 81: Arrowsmith (430 pages, so total of 31.006)2 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by John McDonough
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 82: The Book of Harlan (400 pages, so total of 31.406 pages)1 star
with 4 star audiobook narration by Robin Miles
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 83: Vanessa and Her Sister (368 pages so total of 31.774)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Emilia Fox,Clare Corbett, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Daniel Pirrie and Anthony Calf
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 84: A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations (336 pages, so total of 32.110 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Julie Teal
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 85: The Silver Dark Sea (436 page, so total of 32.546 pages.4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Maggie Mash
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 86: Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 (410 pages, so total of 32.956 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Arthur Morey
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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