High Standards

Beautiful, excellently crafted short story.

Revisado: 03-30-25

The narration was wonderful and the simultaneous WW2/present day characters' interaction didn't feel woo-woo. A tribute to those whose quiet heroism keeps us all safe but must remain unsung.

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Washington is a weird world

Revisado: 07-06-23

Interesting character studies of those behind the scenes of our politics and government. Not exactly encouraging, but at least Ben leaves us at the end with the youngest member of Congress and the perhaps vain hope that he's the beginning of a different way of doing things in DC.

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My Favorite Delightfully Deadly Novella (so far)

Revisado: 01-18-23

So sweetly sad but satisfying. Have tissues handy at he end. For maximum reader enjoyment, this is not really a stand-alone.; it's best read in Ms. Carriger's written order and please complete the"Finishing School" series before you read this book.
Emma Newman does a lovely job narrating. She has read all of the Delightfully Deadlies so it's odd to see griping for this latest one. Name pronunciation is an issue when changing narrators in every single audiobook series I've listened to, especially those that have a world built which contains several intertwining series over many years. It is jarring at first, but please don't disparage the narrators. Choose to use context clues to clear up any confusion.
My 2 cents: This is a production issue; not a performance one.The actors should all be given a phonetic list of names and places as the author intends them to be pronounced to provide continuity for listeners. In audiobooks, these discrepancies correspond to changing the spelling of names and places in every new print volume in a series. Someone should have figured out by now that there are fundamental differences between audio and print and acted accordingly.

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excellent in every way

Revisado: 02-18-22

Beautiful writing, beautiful narration. Lovely, tragic, but hopeful story, told in a number of different time periods which underscored the far reaching effects of historical events. Truly excellent.

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May be his best book

Revisado: 06-17-21

Deeper than his previous works, (which I have loved). Sad, funny, reflective, and a joy if you're familiar with Raleigh or coastal North Carolina,

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A nice little nibble

Revisado: 03-16-21

It's always fun to visit Ruso and family, and I'd listen to Simon Vance read the phone book. A lovely way to spend a few hours while anxiously awaiting the next full-length book. You can read this with no knowledge of the series, but of course it's better to start with Medicus and let the tale unfold. Since this is a short story, there's not a lot of the historical detail that makes this series so interesting, but the characters still interact in the endearing way readers have come to expect from Ruth Downie.

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Another wonderful story by Tana French. Want more

Revisado: 11-26-20

This is a very satisfying story with excellent narration. It is another stand-alone, set in rural Ireland & not part of the Dublin Murder Squad series. A retired Chicago cop has moved to an old fixer-upper to live a quiet life and putter around restoring the house and trying to fit in to an insular rural community. Naturally, things don't work out as planned and he's drawn in to a local mystery by a local 13 yr old kid. The characters are wonderfully drawn and the mystery meanders nicely and wraps up well. I love these characters and I really hope French decides to set a series in this world, and I have discovered a new favorite narrator in Roger Clark.

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Forgers & Bibliomaniacs & Serial Killers, oh my!

Revisado: 08-26-20

Lindsey Davis has given us another fun outing with Flavia Albia.This time she's mostly on her own and missing husband Tiberius, who is out of town. She ends up working with the Vigiles and an agent of Caesar's to solve a murder and investigating the murky world of literature forging and the collectors who keep it in business,all the while juggling an ever expanding household and a house under seemingly eternal renovation. Wryly commenting on it all, Albia is a delightful narrator of her life in ancient Rome. You can read this as a one-off, bit I highly recommend the rest of the series and the Marcus Didius Falco series it came from. Jane Collingwood does an excellent job inhabiting Albia's character.

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Sheen spectacularly narrates Lyra's origin story

Revisado: 06-11-20

This is an excellent, thrilling story. Some parts are too intense for younger than middle school children, especially with Michael Sheen's ability to convey all of the emotion that Philip Pullman has put on the page. This is my first time hearing Sheen on an audiobook and he is a revelation!

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Good story--INCREDIBLE narrator

Revisado: 12-23-19

I thoroughly enjoyed this sad but sweet and funny short story. Brilliantly produced soundscape, too.

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