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Artfully Present Story

Revisado: 09-23-24

Few words can do honor to such a work. A layered and historical context is deftly interwoven amid the verdure of Malaya. Multiple themes of love, Taoism, art, friendship and loss draw the listener, aided by inspired narration by Anna Bentinck, toward a deeper experience of life.

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Would I Could Live in This Book

Revisado: 08-12-24

Hard pressed to name a Charlotte Bronte favorite, it is enough to say that Shirley occupies a small and decorous room in my heart. Its many themes, truths, poignancies and observations…Bronte continues to enrich me even after nearly 60 years of reading her.

Running a close second is the remarkable, quietly stunning narrator, Anna Bentinck. Deeply personal, and masterfully able to evoke place, spirit, epoch — Bentinck’s pitch-perfect performance transforms the listener and communicates verdant soulfulness and meaning.

Indeed I keep replaying segments of Shirley, as I am so reluctant to leave.

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A Pure Stream

Revisado: 06-17-23

This rendition of Little Men is such a contrast to today’s media faire! It is a pure stream of positive messages. No matter that it could be said that society has changed and moved on since 1871 —this story is still pointing to a better world and how to get there.
Modern readers may find it preachy - but the messages, to me, are timeless.
The narration is very fitting for this story, as well. Glad that Audible picked up this recording.

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Story of Grim Truths

Revisado: 04-09-23

The Ruin was an absorbing listen on Audible. It animated believable characters and brought contemporary Irish culture to life, juxtaposing modernism with details of traditional and outdated cultural references.

I admire stories that create likable
characters. I even found myself wondering if we’d hear of another Detective Cormac Riley mystery…

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Deeply Immersive

Revisado: 03-10-23

Vanity Fair is an immersive foray into a subset of late 18th/early 19th c. society. With superb narration, the listener is drawn ever deeper into the lives of a loosely-connected troupe of players. Though they are fictional, their historic period and places are not.
Notwithstanding their epoch, the messages (and there are many!) remain fresh today.

Thackeray’s probing narrative is masterful, bringing his characters to life, breath and color, enhanced by his uber-perceptive teachings on human nature in all its beauty and depravity.

My favorite Audible Book to date!

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True Historical Fiction

Revisado: 02-02-23

Even though this story is, by the author’s own admission, not 100% historically accurate, it is well-researched. Moreover, it captures the spirit of a determined woman, and the heart that surely must have generated her deeds.

Melodramatic? Yes. A sepia portrait of slavery and plantation life? Certainly. Still, we cannot know what Eliza Lukas was really like. But we might not know of her at all had not Natasha Boyd given Eliza a voice.

I enjoyed this book and was sad when it was finished.

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Unparalleled Work

Revisado: 05-07-22

The genius of Charles Dickens is fully on display in every chapter of this book. His endless insights into the human condition still stand up to the test of time.

Equally superb is the performance of the reader Simon Vance. The listener is absorbed into Dickens’ world and enchanted.

Worth every minute.

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Deeply Engaging

Revisado: 12-20-21

“The Woman in White” by Willie Collins struck me first as a voice very similar to the observational style of Jane Austen.

By its end, however, my heart was engaged and I cared about what would happen.

The story is intriguing; the performance by Billy Howle, priceless.

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