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I heart Aubrey and Mike.

Revisado: 09-23-23

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Welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that will have you swerving erratically as you belly laugh with your eyes emitting tears of laughter. Or rage. Sometimes in the same episode. The relationship and dynamic between Aubrey and Mike is a delight to witness. The content is always informative and often shocking, I learn something new every episode.

Give Maintenance Phase a listen, you will not be disappointed.

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Content warning: transphobic BS

Revisado: 10-22-22

This book overall is quite meh, if I’m honest. I thought hearing from his defense would be more engrossing. In my opinion f you have previous knowledge of JWG there will not be much new or surprising information here.

Even so, I listened to it with moderate interest until he described a gleefully transphobic cross examination with one of the prosecution’s witnesses. Now, placing this in its historic context I understand it wasn’t as socially unacceptable to be a transphobic POS. But I do think it merits a heads-up for listeners, because it is awful in its intentionality and very hard to hear.

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I have LOLed multiple times!

Revisado: 09-29-22

Aubrey and Mike are a very entertaining duo. I have a great appreciation for the diet myth-busting, book deep-dives, and thought provocation provided here. So many thanks for the laughs!

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Not his best.

Revisado: 03-26-22

I don’t love this narrator. He talks too quickly, and if I didn’t have the option to play the book at a slower speed I wouldn’t have finished it.

Story-wise, this doesn’t stack up to other true crime works by Olsen. Can’t put my finger on why, but it just doesn’t.

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This book has aged like good wine.

Revisado: 10-15-21

So many books seem to lose their magic as we age. A book we once loved, with our own aging and personal growth, will begin to reveal its faults. A book is so seldom able to age gracefully and grow in parallel with us.

The Poisonwood Bible is one of the exceptions. I first read it as a young mother to a young child. I’ve just completed my most recent rereading with that child an adult who recently moved out of the house, and two more teenagers trailing behind the first by only a few years.

Nothing has been lost from the thick, primal magic of this book in all that time. It is as though Kingsolver has granted to all of us the power to become the young Adah, and we will always have new things to learn from it.

Minor quibble about the narrator being in a race against time to finish the book, a book I wish would never end. Recommend listening on .8 speed maximum.

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Riveting in an ambivalent way.

Revisado: 10-01-21

Here’s the thing- it’s a well written book. The characters are nuanced and well developed, the world is immersive and detailed, the writing style leaves nothing to be desired. I love how the story is told from so many different perspectives. I will seek out other titles by this author.

That said, the material is uncomfortable. I was so happy at first, when Wavy found someone she could trust; someone to take care of her. BUT when this bond quickly develops into a “love story” between a grown man and a child… I don’t even know what to say. Grooming a child for a romantic relationship, having a sexual relationship with a child; we have words for those things. The fact that this story wraps up as a “happily ever after” between the two of them is incredibly uncomfortable.

I am left with my discomfort unresolved. I will think about this book for a long time.

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Minor narration irritations.

Revisado: 09-14-21

There are times when the narrator appears to decide that a period wasn’t necessary at the end of a sentence where the author put one, and *really* rushes the words together, leaving no space between ideas. “Rushes” is a somewhat inadequate descriptor. (Realistically, I suppose I do not know if this is a function of editing after the fact or the narrator herself.)

That said, her voices are great. They are subtle and successful, not at all overdone. You forget that she is even a narrator doing voices, and end up hearing only the characters and story. Nor did I catch any pronunciation errors, which is my biggest pet peeve with narrators. Her rushing flaw is infrequent, and not enough to turn me off listening to the next book.

The book itself is a lovely nostalgia trip, as I have not read it in 20+ years. The author’s writing leaves nothing to be desired. Her descriptors of the life and environment build a reality that is quite interesting to contemplate. I look forward to revisiting the next books, and then finally getting around to the last one for the first time. :)

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Mispronunciations puhsychically hurt me

Revisado: 02-14-21

This narrator should be incarcerated for this and other travesties she has wrought in Catherine Asaro’s works. How this was allowed to happen, and in multiple books, is entirely beyond me. MAKE. IT. STOP.

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Weird pronunciations

Revisado: 12-18-20

There are multiple instances of strange-to-painful word pronunciation in this audiobook. Very distracting and impossible to ignore. So bad that I am rethinking whether I want to listen to this series or not. :(

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