S. Lundquist

Can you give 6 stars for performance?

Revisado: 01-09-22

Simply wonderful. Love Jim Dale so much. The soundtrack of my childhood. Thank you kindly!

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Absolutely loved it

Revisado: 08-19-21

Captivating. Really enjoyed the segments about the 1918 flu in our 2021 context. Worth listening! Great performance, too. Interesting voices.

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Didn’t know quite what to expect...

Revisado: 02-10-19

But I loved it! What a delightful book. The neuroses of the main character and the way the story unfolds is charming. The performance was very enjoyable. Two thumbs up!

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Speed it up

Revisado: 11-07-18

I was so excited to listen to this book. I love books about women in other cultures. I kept seeing this title come up and was sure I’d like it, but I found this book quite slow— both the story and the performance.
I enjoyed the author’s accent and vocal quality, but she tends to say things without emotion. It made listening a little bit frustrating (and occasionally confusing). She doesn’t vary her delivery very much — she was reading in a flat voice and then said, “she said vehemently.” No vehemence. No fervor. It’s bad enough that I think it negatively affected the whole experience. I really wanted to love the book! When I realized I could listen to the book at 1.25x speed, the experience really improved.
Another issue: I don’t necessarily care about every one of the novels they’re reading. If you’re not a MAJOR classic author fan, it has some dull moments. Perhaps if I’d read every novel the author references I would have enjoyed it more? It was interesting to hear people react to the books from their point of view and try to apply their morals to the novel.
The women in the book study group are interesting, but the author doesn’t flesh them out enough for you. She’s too busy ruminating. It’s more navel-gazing than I was really prepared for — she has whole passages where she’s questioning whether or not her memory is really what happened or if she’s tainting it. And while I understand she wanted to work through that... it’s boring. Yes, memory isn’t a stack of DVDs you can sort through and push play on to relive. They’re fluid. You impart your own bias. This is not a history book, and since she fills page after page with her own opinions in almost a dairy-like writing style anyway, what does it really matter? I wanted an interesting story about women living in Tehran, forming community and escaping through books... and it’s there, but it’s muddy.

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