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Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,284
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,797
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,798
Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Spring for a professional narrator, please!
- De Gail D. en 11-05-18
- Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
Boring story
Revisado: 09-30-24
I’m a big Kingsolver fan but this one just fell short. The story was boring and didn’t go anywhere. I would skip this title and go to one of her other excellent books.
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Things They Lost
- De: Okwiri Oduor
- Narrado por: Christel Mutombo
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Ayosa is a wandering spirit—joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother’s crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story impeccably written and read
- De Ryan C. Bango en 08-03-22
- Things They Lost
- De: Okwiri Oduor
- Narrado por: Christel Mutombo
Story impeccably written and read
Revisado: 08-03-22
Things They Lost was impeccably written and read like an enchanting song. The writing was clean and tight - not an unnecessary word to be found. The character development was layered and captivating. The superstitious lore of the local ideology was beautifully intertwined with the stark reality that humans are complex creatures made up of darkness and light.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- De: V. E. Schwab
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40,094
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35,812
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35,697
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Prose style not to my liking
- De C.V. Cox en 10-18-20
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- De: V. E. Schwab
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
You will need to ‘beautiful mind’ this story out to follow
Revisado: 06-08-22
I listened to the first 10 hours then gave up. I had to restart several times and finally googled the story for an explanation of the plot and what the author was trying to do. The reader does a beautiful job but it is hard to follow where we are in history. The author jumps around time which may be an attempt to exemplify the feeling of Addie not living linear in time, but it’s confusing. It is as if the story is being told via Venn diagram instead of a book. The concept is interesting - it blends some flavors of Tuck Everlasting, Screwtape Letters, The Book of Job and the dime store romance novels my Nana read in the 80s. There is potential for this to be a good novel if it could be sent back to the publisher for heavy editing and reconfiguring the storyboard.
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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real life
- De Richard M. en 10-05-22
- Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
Revisado: 01-05-22
The story’s characters were lost in the reading of the memoir. The narrator has a lovely and gentle voice. With that said, she would have been better off not attempting an accent not natural to her, it was hard to hear the characters’ voices and get drawn in to the story points. The soft lullaby like cadence muted the grit and tenacity the storyline deserved.
I would love to hear this story reread with a strong women voice rich with tenor and depth. I don’t intend to disparage the narrator. I look forward to hearing her lovely voice again but perhaps reading something that would befit her gifts: a love story, motherly memoir, classic American short story, etc.
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