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Lady Hardcastle and Flo

Revisado: 02-20-25

These stories are all a treat. I can’t wait for the next installment of their adventures. Unfortunately, the Great War is pending. I mourn for the village’s losses.

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Stephen Fry

Revisado: 06-30-24

Stephen Fry raises this series to another level. Thank you Audible for enabling Americans access to this.

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Atlas of a lost world

Revisado: 09-03-23

I am deeply interested in anthropology, genetics and archeology. I found this book absolutely riveting.

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My Life in France

Revisado: 02-03-23

Julia Child is and always has been one of my favorite cooking teachers. This intimate glimpse into her life, her passions, and her motivations completes the picture. What a wonderful book!

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The Black Tower

Revisado: 01-17-22

Another excellent P.D. James book ruined by the histrionics of Penelope Dellaporta. The locations and characters are all very interesting. Dalgliesh is a strong protagonist. But then, there is the screeching! Cover Your Ears.

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Devices and Desires

Revisado: 01-17-22

I enjoy P.D. James’s books, whether audio or reading. However, Ms. Dellaport’s histrionic screeching at every rise in tension. however small, ruined this audiobook for me. She sounds like she is about to break into sobs. Her voicing of the various characters was also weak and ineffective. She should stick to straightforward reading. And it went on for hours! I won’t suffer through another one of her narrations. If she were on stage, I would walk out. She ruined an otherwise good book for me.
The story, as always, is very good,,with excellent character development.

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Beginner's Mind

Revisado: 04-11-21

This is a wonderful way to spend an hour and a half. Yo-Yo Ma is a national, no, an international treasure. A universal treasure, for all I know. Not only is he a stunningly talented and curious and open musician, but he is also a stellar human being. The music here is a catalog of international sounds and ideas; Yo-Yo Ma is giving us lessons about what we can do with our humanity. We can use it to enrich and unite our fellow human beings. The history of our species should not be who we can hate and conquer, but who we can cherish and learn from. Love love love him.

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Simply awful

Revisado: 04-13-20

This is the worst book I have ever encountered on Audible. It is unbearably stupid. I want my money back.

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2020 Prescience. Pale Rider, the Spanish Flu

Revisado: 04-13-20

This book is incredibly relevant to the times we are now living through. First, it posits another visitation of a deadly pandemic, and here we find ourselves. It is remarkably prescient in that regard. I suppose it was inevitable.

Second, it outlines the possible preventative and mitigation strategies that could have been undertaken to contain it but were not until it was too late, largely for political and religious reasons. Sound familiar?

And third, it shows the historical context of this hideous disease, both pre- and post-pandemic. The pre-pandemic context is very much what we have been contending with in 2020. The post-pandemic context of our current debacle, of course, remains to be seen.

I cannot recommend this book too highly. It is well-researched, and it is written like the most compelling fiction. What a story!

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The Chestnut Man

Revisado: 02-17-20

This is a gripping book, although longish. The narrator was not the best I have ever heard. He tended to be somewhat flat. When there was action, he just got loud. The story is great. Had me stumped.

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