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- Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
- De: Wendy Fairey
- Narrado por: Christy Carlo
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 20
Wendy Fairey grew up among books. As the shy and studious daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham - F. Scott Fitzgerald's lover during the last years of his life - she began as a child reading her way through the library Fitzgerald had assembled for her mother and escaped into the landscape of classic English novels. Their protagonists became her intimates, starting with David Copperfield, whose sensibility and aspirations seemed so akin to her own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Messages
- De Charles Larrison en 06-01-22
- Bookmarked
- Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
- De: Wendy Fairey
- Narrado por: Christy Carlo
Too Many Mispronunciations
Revisado: 08-09-22
I enjoyed the narrator's pleasant voice & believable performance. However, she mispronounced many words. Proust is "Prewst," not "Prowst." Diderot is "Dee-der-oh," not "Did-er-ott." Vita Sackville-West is "Veeta" as in "Vel-veeta," not "Vita" as in "vital." The name "Ezio" would be pronounced "Etzio" in Italian, not "Essio." Montmarte is "Mon-maa-truh," not "Mont-mart," like "K-Mart." The St. Denis neighborhood of Paris is pronounced "Sahn Dinee," not "Saint Dennis." Fecundity is pronounced with a hard, not a soft, "C."
How inspiring the author's mother, Sheilah Graham, a penniless orphan, rose to such heights and how proud she must have been when her daughter became a celebrated English professor. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "College of One" was obviously a great success.
The author might want to reconsider her assertion that walking through Beverly Hills is so scarce as to seem legally prohibited. It might have been true when she lived there sixty years ago, but no longer (even more so since the pandemic). Each street is lined by its own particular variety of tree, many now nearly a century old, providing a great deal of pedestrian-friendly shade (except for the streets lined with beanpole-like palm trees). Most homes have expensive and well-tended gardens in the front lawns. It is like walking through a park, and many take full advantage.
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Something in the Water
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47,589
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43,368
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43,233
Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....
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1 out of 5 stars
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No Thrill Here
- De Sara en 06-08-18
- Something in the Water
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
The mystery is there is no mystery
Revisado: 07-12-18
The performance is excellent, and the story starts off very well. However, there is not much in the way of suspense. I figured out how it was going to go early on and kept hoping there would be a surprise at the end. There wasn't.
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