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Take Me Apart
- A Novel
- De: Sara Sligar
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Xe Sands
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive of his mother's work and personal effects. As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda's private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Learn to pronounce the language correctly!
- De D. Waheedah en 05-02-20
- Take Me Apart
- A Novel
- De: Sara Sligar
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Xe Sands
Exhaustingly straight with few surprises
Revisado: 06-11-20
This is hard to review as it was a well-crafted and well-written story that often felt like a slog to get through. The whole thing feels written by and for the young, straight, white women of the new york publishing scene. which is to say, I've heard it before and don't find the relationships it describes particularly interesting. while it may be a revelation (or at least relatable) to the aforementioned demographic that certain types of men will turn out to be abusers and certain types of secrecy will turn out to be toxic, to those of us for whom this is old news, it's just another tedious journey through the ways white women attempt to absorb or shield themselves with white male power, only to be thwarted by it.
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Long Bright River
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- De: Liz Moore
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,774
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,761
In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit - and her sister - before it's too late.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration was good
- De Kelli avid listener en 01-14-20
- Long Bright River
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- De: Liz Moore
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
great literary suspense novel for tana french fans
Revisado: 05-04-20
A bit slow to start, but as I got to know the main character and the mystery built, I was hooked. Though I missed Tana French's dark wit and crackling prose, this was a solid pairing for her Dublin Murder Squad series, offering similar pleasures of plot and complex character development. The insight into (and sorrow for) North America's opioid crisis was a particular strength of this novel as well.
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The Undying
- Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- De: Anne Boyer
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
A week after her 41st birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, pro-pain "dolorists", and the many little murders of capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provocative and moving
- De C. FREEMAN en 05-13-20
- The Undying
- Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- De: Anne Boyer
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
beautifully written but without insight
Revisado: 12-23-19
Boyer defends "telling" as righteous but reveals its limitations, resulting in a tightly controlled narrative.
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The Tourist
- De: Robert Dickinson
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 21
It is expected to be an excursion like any other. There is nothing in the records to indicate that anything out of the ordinary will happen. A bus will take them to the mall. They will have an hour or so to look around. Perhaps buy something, or try the food. A minor traffic incident on the way back to the resort will provide some additional interest - but the tour rep has no reason to expect any trouble. Until he notices that one of his party is missing.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Lylah en 10-27-16
- The Tourist
- De: Robert Dickinson
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
intriguing story asks questions it fails to answer
Revisado: 03-16-17
The writing is passable, story is intriguing if confusing w/many twists and turns that ultimately result in a dead end. instantly forgettable, sorry to say.
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The Sixth Extinction
- An Unnatural History
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,544
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,812
A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lifts you out of the ordinary
- De Regina en 04-28-14
- The Sixth Extinction
- An Unnatural History
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
would have been great if author read it
Revisado: 06-03-15
loved the introduction (read by author), but reader had no sense of humor (author did). too bad!
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