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Quality of narration

Revisado: 11-28-24

This is a maudlinly-fun book with humor and wisdom, breaking the essence of disposal into its most elemental parts.

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Improbable even for a Rom/Mystery

Revisado: 07-24-24

This was a vacuous listen. Character development was uneven and red herrings scattered throughout. Narration was fine. I wish the story and final big reveal/confrontation had been a little more plausible . Then maybe the soapy elements of it would have been more tolerable.

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Good not great

Revisado: 05-23-24

This story lures you with the promise of early twentieth century adventure. But the record of Fawcett’s incompleted attempt to discover an ancient Amazonian city is simply lacking in enough details that the reader is left to speculation without much drama. The explorers who tried to account for Fawcett’s disappearance don’t have compelling stories themselves but much of the book is about their own failed attempts. There’s just not a lot of THERE there until the final pages.

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Reflections of ourselves

Revisado: 01-24-24

Klein shows us how reflections of ourselves are hijacked and leveraged against us . She makes the urgent case that we should rise above our darker inclinations as a species. It sounds like Naomi Wolf was unable to do this. A grim but important read.

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Stellar

Revisado: 09-09-23

Lonesome Dove is a stellar example of a classic American novel that has something for everyone: humor, danger, meaningful human relationships, struggle, loneliness, triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Everything that made up the settling of the west, and the last adventures of the American cowboy. It is one of those rare books that I did not want to end.

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Stellar

Revisado: 09-09-23

Lonesome Dove is a stellar example of a classic American novel that has something for everyone: humor, danger, meaningful human relationships, struggle, loneliness, triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Everything that made up the settling of the west, and the last adventures of the American cowboy. It is one of those rare books that I did not want to end.

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Charles Dickens if he had lived in modern America

Revisado: 08-01-23

Demon Copperhead is a richly authentic account of a scrappy American childhood.
Dickensian in scope and good humor, this character-driven novel is full of hard-knock happenings during a time when the foster care system was both savior and hellscape. Demon makes an amiable, plucky protagonist who manages to claw his way out of many desperate situations with as much grace as can be accomplished in a world of hucksters and users. It sounds grim, but Kingsolver keeps the prose bouncy and the tone hopeful throughout and leaves a satisfying character experience with the reader.

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A tapestry of an alternative family life

Revisado: 07-02-23

The Amazing Adventures of K & C is an extraordinary look at at rare collaborative business friendship. Two cousins play their artistic strengths off each other during a tumultuous few decades in America and Europe. Chabon gives us a tantalizing view of comic book creativity and the scrappy publishing industry that exploited it prior to WWII in his tale of two enterprising cousins trying to imagine an American dream. But it is Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay’s loves and losses that invest us in the story.

David Colacci inhabits and enlivens each character.

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Well-written but not consistently compelling

Revisado: 11-20-22

Very well-written and researched. Some of the stories were compelling, others not. A history of Dominos and the cultural influence of FYPU? No. A history of Josephine Baker and Merry Clayton? Yes, please. Maybe that reflects my gender and race but the people
stories were more interesting than the cultural influencer stories.

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Excellent narration

Revisado: 10-30-22

Serkis was born for this reading. His voice and inflection for each character couldn’t be more perfect.

Although I’ve read the Hobbit many times, I never tire of Tolkien’s delightful tale of hobbits and their friends and adventures. Amusing, wonderfully atmospheric, and full of wisdom.

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