Audiobooks – Page 121 – Cannonball Read 17

Henry James would not have understood what a smart house is.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

March 3, 2022 by narfna 7 Comments

I read the first third of this in my paperback copy, then switched over to the audio to see if I could jump start my interest in it again. It worked! For a while, at least. It helped me get through the book, anyway. I liked the audio version better. I was super into this book at first, but as soon as the main character reached the house in the country, something about it lost me. It probably also didn’t help that I was traveling […]

If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU!

The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl

These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi

Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

You can hear LeVar say lots of other things, if you like! You can also hear Nyambi Nyambi, Naomi Ackie, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, and Brian Tyree Henry! The six-entry Black Stars collection is another new(ish) group of short stories available from Amazon Originals. They are available on both kindle and through audible, and if you are interested in diving into this collection then I highly recommend taking the audio route! Every story is enhanced by the audio performances, and I am sure that I rated […]

Easter Bonnet Competitions and War Crimes

Easter Bonnet Murder by Leslie Meier

March 1, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Lucy Stone, the main reporter in Tinker’s Cove, is concerned for her friend Miss Tilley when she has to move into retirement home Heritage House after an illness. But that concern only grows when an intrepid resident, Agnes, goes missing from the place. I did not realize when I requested this audiobook ARC that it was the twenty-eighth book in the series! Had I not known, I wouldn’t have guessed it, for the writing is not tired at all as you sometimes get with long […]

A Psalm for my Inner Perfectionist

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

February 26, 2022 by Emmalita 7 Comments

I discovered to my horror while reading an arc for Monk and Robot #2, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, that I never finished my review of A Psalm for the the Wild Built. I’m also not surprised, because my love for it overwhelms me into a flailing state of indecipherable babbling and crying. There are some novellas that are like the Tardis, so much bigger than you think they could possibly be. I’ve listened to A Psalm for the Wild-Built three times now, and I […]

“A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations.”

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabelle Wilkerson

February 24, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

This book has been on my TBR for a long time. Basically since it came out. It’s an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and it was longlisted for the National Book Award. It also feels like everyone, but everyone, was talking about this book. So I was excited to finally find an audio copy available. The premise of Caste is straightforward: Wilkerson posits that the racial inequality we see in America is really a system of caste, where the distinguishing features of the hierarchy happen to […]

“I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.”

Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #1) by Robin Hobb

February 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is the fourth series overall set in Robin Hobb’s Elderlings world, and the second that takes place in the Rain Wilds, with the liveships and dragons, after The Liveship Traders. I continue to be very, very glad I gave her another chance as an author. I loved revisiting this world and seeing characters from Liveship again, but here we get an all-new set of characters to follow for four books, including a dragon POV! Please do not read further if you haven’t read The […]

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