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Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Soffer
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati, Kate Reinders
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
This is a story about accepting the people we love - the people we have to love and the people we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families we make. It’s the story of two women adrift in New York, a widow and an almost-orphan, each searching for someone she’s lost. It’s the story of how, even in moments of grief and darkness, there are joys waiting nearby. Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks, making croissants and chocolat chaud, seeking out rare ingredients, all to earn the love of her distracted chef of a mother, who is now packing her off to boarding school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tomorrow there Will be Apricots
- De Daryl en 12-10-15
- Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Soffer
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati, Kate Reinders
Mostly fabulous (especially the food), but a few flaws.
Revisado: 01-04-23
First off: TW self harm. This isn’t mentioned in the publisher summary, and is a central plot element that is described in pretty graphic detail and isn’t actually all tidied up by the end.
That being said, I really enjoyed this book. Soffer’s writing is luscious and vivid, and she brilliantly gives well rounded voices to two very unique protagonists.
The food writing is superb. I am definitely going to seek out and/or make all of the Iraqi dishes described here. The historical information is fascinating, though not explored in much detail, and definitely made me want to know more about the history of Iraqi Jews.
I did have one major issue with the audiobook narration. Lorca is meant to be extremely familiar with the French food scene in NY, and is something of a French cooking prodigy. In her passages she spends long sections describing French dishes (poulet roti, chocolate chaud) and name dropping actual French restaurants like Le Bernardin and Les Halles. These are all words that any cook in NY can pronounce (if not perfectly, at least recognizably) and that a girl raised by an elitist French chef would certainly say correctly. Kate Reinders mispronounced every single French word. And I don’t mean “didn’t speak like a native Parisian” I mean actively says them so incorrectly that it was jarring. While she had the “teenage girl” time correct, Lorca isn’t your average adolescent and the lack of attention to detail was especially unfortunate. Especially when juxtaposed with Victoria’s passages where Kathleen Gati seemed to be completely at home embodying the Iraqi vocabulary and accent. That the production chose to have Reinders also narrate Joseph was a truly strange choice. This is not the first audible production where the narrator’s lack of familiarity with another language has been a major let down.
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Shadow of Night
- A Novel
- De: Deborah Harkness
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 24 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31,329
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28,014
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27,937
Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliff-hanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Recommended, however....
- De J. Lunsford en 07-15-12
- Shadow of Night
- A Novel
- De: Deborah Harkness
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
Hilarious but probably not for the right reasons
Revisado: 01-14-21
First off, the “Twilight for grownups” vibes that were my least favorite part of the first book just leapfrogged 50 Shades of Gray and jumped straight to bodice-ripping erotica. An attempt at a self aware “you should see the romance novels my friends read” joke fails to land because it’s delivered after half a dozen skippably cliche, nipple-brushing, thigh-grazing, “bodies moving as one” scenes.
Second, Ikeda honestly does do a respectable job voicing dozens of uniquely accented characters across more than one time period and country. However, when we meet a 16th century Bohemian rabbi, the accent is decidedly Woody Allen with just a touch of Billy Crystal. By this point the plot is so convoluted that the Anachronism was legitimately hilarious.
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Blackwater: The Complete Saga
- De: Michael McDowell
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 30 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,232
Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido's first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A 6 Star Worthy Epic!
- De jksullycats en 10-29-17
- Blackwater: The Complete Saga
- De: Michael McDowell
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
Hooked at chapter one
Revisado: 10-17-18
It is very possible that I will change my mind over the next 30 hours, but so far this book has me hooked in a way I haven’t felt since elementary school. In a, sit up all night with a flashlight and go to school sleep deprived kind of way. It’s also a perfect read for the Halloween season.
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My Life in France
- De: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,672
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,682
This memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia Child embraced so wholeheartedly. Above all, she reveals the kind of spirit and determination, the sheer love of cooking, and the drive to share that with her fellow Americans that made her the extraordinary success she became.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a pleasure!
- De Sara en 07-03-08
- My Life in France
- De: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
The French don’t really have a word for “cringeworthy”
Revisado: 02-05-18
But if they did, that’s how I would describe the narrator’s French speaking. It alternated between embarrassingly over-pronounced and flat-out incorrect. Even if you’re not a French speaker, her abrupt shifts in pronunciation every time she encounters a piece of French vocabulary are likely to interrupt the flow of listening. I know, Julia herself did not possess a mellifluous grasp of the language, but at least she committed to an accent. There’s something more annoying about trying to sound authentic and failing, than just embracing ones own inauthenticity.
That said, Julia’s stories are absolutely delightful. I hope someday a better suited voice gives it another try.
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