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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 88: The Architect's Apprentice (432 pages, so total of 33.788 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Grant Cartwright
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book: 89: The Sound and the Fury (326 pagers, so total of 34.114 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Grover Gardener
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 90: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (272 pages, so total of 34.386 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Lynne Thigpen
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 91: Charles Dickens (527 pages, so total of 34.913 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Alex Jennings
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 92: Under the Sea Wind (208 pages, so total of 35.121 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by C.M. Hébert
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 93: The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between (288 pages, so total of 35.409 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by the author Hisham Matar
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 94: The Dust That Falls from Dreams (528 pages, so total of 35.937 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Avita Jay and David Sibley
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 95: The Great Fortune (288 pages, so total of 36.225 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Harriet Walter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 96: The Spoilt City (373 pages, so total of 36.598 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Harriet Walter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 97: Friends and Heroes (372 pages, so total of 36.970 pages)4 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Harriet Walter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 98: A Gentleman in Moscow (448 pages, so total of 37.418 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Nicholas Guy Smith
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie, I'll be looking forward to what you think .
I am really excited about this one, Angela.
Well, so far I like it. I like how he talks about heirlooms and how you attach memories of people to objects and how objects REALLY are nothing. I remember what I saw when I was there, at the Metropol. Oh gosh, I remember how we couldn't order caviar and how I ordered cucumbers. We were just at the restaurant.
Angela, I have not come far, but I like it so far! You can read a book description but that says nothing about the author's ability in capturing a time and place through their writing. What about this wonderful line said by the Count to a little girl in the restaurant, "Was the minding of one's business no longer taught in schools." She had asked him where his mustaches had gone. The language is both marvelous and perfect. The aristocracy is perfectly drawn. Much of what is said is implied. I like that. The more you know about the time and era the more you understand. I also like that sentences about the similarity in the look of children and dogs. Either you understand or you don't.
ETA: Yeah, I like the lines, but I can't figure out where the book is going! I am getting a bit exasperated.
ETA later:I don't know, I sometimes get totally lost on what is being said. Sometimes the language is a bit too sophisticated for me. I prefer simple over convoluted.
Book 99: The Johnstown Flood (302 pages, so total of 37.720 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Edward Hermann
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie, I'm glad that your initial reaction is positive. I'll be interested in your final thoughts . I loved the ending.
Angela, nope it went downhill for me. I finished it.
Book 100:Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (480 pages, so total of 38, 200 pages)4 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Carl Safina (the author)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 101: The Lightkeepers (340 pages, so total of 38.540 pages)1 star
with 1 star audiobook narration by Xe Sands
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 102: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (288 pages, so total of 38.828 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by the author Bill Bryson
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 103: My Purple Scented Novel (20 pages, so total of 38.848 pages)2 stars
with 3 star narration by the author Ian McEwan
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 104: The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (768 pages, so total of 39.616 pages)2 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Simon Russell Beale
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 105: The Way We Live Now (1 star (dumped after half)
with 5 star audiobook narration by Timothy West
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 106: The Human Comedy (256 pages, so total of 40.210 pages)4 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Meg Ryan
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 107: Landmarks 387 pages, so total of 40.597 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Roy McMilan
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 108: The Pecan Man (146 pages, so total of 40.743 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Suzanne Toren
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 109: Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (380 pages, so total of 41.123 pages)4 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Norman Dietz
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 110: The Go-Between (326 pages, so total of 41.499 pages)2 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Sean Barrett
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 111: The Painted Bird (234 pages, so total of 41.683 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Fred Berman and Michael Aronov(author's afterword)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 112: Fire from Heaven (375 pages, so total of 42.058 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Roger May
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 113: July's People (160 pages, so total of 42.218 pages)3 stars with 3 star audiobook narration by Nadia May)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 114: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (558 pages, so total of 42.776 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Edward Hermann
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 115: Missing Person (page 192, so total of 42.968 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Bronson Pinchot
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 116: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (277 pages, so total of 43.245 pages)3 stars
with 5 star audiobook narration by Daniella Nardini
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 117: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (563 pages, so total of 43.808 pages)4 stars
with 2 star audiobook narration by Simon Vance
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 118: Housekeeping (219 pages, so totall of 44.027 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Becket Royce
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 119: In the Country of Men (246 pages, so total of 44.273 pages)4 stars
with 1 star audibook narration by Khalid Abdalla
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 120: The Light Years (448 pages, so total of 44721 pages)3 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Jill Balcon
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 121: Cider With Rosie (231 pages, so total of 44952 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Laurie Lee
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 122: An Unfinished Life1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Tony Amendola and Judith Marx
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 123: Only Time Will Tell (400 pages, so total of 45.624 pages)2 stars and this does mean it was OK!
with 5 star audiobook narration by Roger Allam and Emilia Fox
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Book 121: Cider With Rosie (231 pages, so total of 44952 pages)4 stars
with 4 star audiobook narration by Laurie Lee
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Oh, I want to read this! So glad to see you liked it :)
I am glad you are going to read this, Leslie, and I hope you like it as much as I did. It is a biography of a place, time and family in beautiful prose. Realistic too. It is not all sweet and cutesy.
Book 124: Sister of Mine: A Novel (379 pages, so total of 46.003 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Bahni Turpin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 125: The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany (464 pages, so total of 46.467 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Mark Meadows
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 126: Notwithstanding (288 pages, so total of 46.755 pages)1 star
with 3 star audiobook narration by Mike Grady
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book 127: Dust Tracks on a Road (324 pages, so total of 47.059 pages)3 stars
with 3 star audiobook narration by Bahni Turpin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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with 4 star audiobook narration by Nigel Davenport
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