Sheryl McCallister

Hard evidence, delivered by an active, engaging narrator

Revisado: 11-09-24

Some of you may have seen my scathing review of a particular Amelia Earhart dramatic presentation here on Audible, and wondered why I was/am so annoyed at the thing. The answers are here, in the pages of One More Good Flight.


Ric Gillespie has done a magnificent job of synthesizing the decades of interests, passions and sheer hard work done by TIGHAR and its almost uncountable numbers of volunteers, on the Gardner Island hypothesis, and its results. And he, or the TIGHAR board, hired an excellent narrator. It could be difficult to make something like the radio logs, or lists of artifacts sound as compelling as they have been reading about them via the TIGHAR forum for years. J Rodney Turner doesn't allow that to happen. Even for things that turned out to be blind alleys, the narration carries an air of remembered suspense. This is a perfect summary report to the missing persons case of Amelia and Fred Noonan.

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Really nice reading of an old favorite

Revisado: 10-19-24

This has been one my favorite Dean Koontz books for 30 years. l love being able to shift from that worn paperback to this audio.

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Love ALL of them, but Eve on vacation? ULTRA MAG!

Revisado: 09-06-23

I've loved JD Robb since before everyone realized it's our Nora. And Susan Ericksen has done an INCOMPARABLE job of keeping the ongoing characters like Peabody and Feeney and Mavis consistent and clear across the whole of this series from beginning to this stage of the game. There's no author/narrator pairing that does that particular fit as seemlessly, to my ear--regardless of what book I jump into, or at what point.


But the whole "vacation" chapter? Just precious. I don't think thru the whole series that we've ever actually SEEN Eve and Roarke on a whole vacation, just long weekends. It's generally been treated as "we'll go away when this is done" or an "we've just come back." And I especially loved watching Eve connect so clearly to that kid!!


I do tend to prefer in terms of my generally multiple dozens of rereading/re-listening habits some of the In Death books that don't have an extra highlight on Eve's past traumas. So this is going to be one of my new go-to choices, because this particular book focuses so clearly on the amazing policework that she and her team are engaging in. And seeing Webster finally, unapologetically move forward, and that house almost move in ready? Excellent progress on all fronts. Time for for number 2's baby shower!

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Why the sloppy accents?!?!

Revisado: 07-03-23

This is one of Nora's better more recent books--but it is IMPOSSIBLE to separate ANY of the Southern female voices, one from another. It's extremely annoying to listen to this, for long stretches.


January LaVoy generally does a better job.

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Wiliam Marshall is an AMAZING subject

Revisado: 05-19-22

Sadly, I cannot bear to listen to this narrator talk about him. Sometimes he sounds...overly reverential, I suppose, is the word I want...and sometimes this sounds like sarcasm. And Asbridge is nowhere close to either of those things, about literally the most impressive human being born in England between 1066 and 1776, that I've ever read about.

The mismatch to my ear is just too much.

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YES!! This sounds like Shirley is in my ears

Revisado: 03-15-22

I have loved Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages since I first picked up an omnibus copy in the mid-1970s at a library book sale as a teenager. Kirsten Potter GETS Shirley Jackson, and her life, and how much she loves her kids, and how ambivalent/ironic/sarcastic she is about many other things in her 1950's world. I've been anxiously waiting, since I learned this was coming, and downloaded this the INSTANT Audible let me at midnight. I have giggled my way thru the night, and will listen over and over. LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!

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Better than NO audio

Revisado: 01-05-22

Life Among the Savages is an old, dearly missed friend--the library sale copy I had for years having gone walkabout some time ago. And while I don't think this particular narrator truly GETS the humor in this particular group of short pieces, stitched together from Jackson's life as a 1950's mom.....on balance, having this is better than not having it. Although I'm hoping the sequel. will be better served by a different narrator.

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The Reader to rule them all....Andy Serkis

Revisado: 09-17-21

Copes of LOTR have lived on top of my main bookshelf for almost 50 years. I often pick it up, opening it wherever it falls, any time I want to read for just a minute or two, because I can consistently FALL into MiddleEarth in an instant, and just relax. Over the years, I've heard others read this...but there was never the immediate sense of being IN Bag End, or the Golden Hall, or the woods of Fangorn.... in any of those attempts. ANDY SERKIS MAKES IT HAPPEN. I picked up all three of these together, and tried to do it--picked different chapters blind, from each book--and each time, I've had that same experience I do when I pick up my hard copy, or open my Nook copy randomly--and just been swept in to Tolkien's words, and MiddleEarth. What is more than perfection? Because that's what Andy Serkis has done here.

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Susan Ericksen makes the difference

Revisado: 01-12-21

I LOVE this story.

I've loved this story since the lurid purple cover originally appeared in my mail box as part of my old Harlequin subscription box, back in late 1996. It made me a Jenny Crusie reader, because she's always had a good sense of the ridiculousness of human beings; but as much as I've loved this story, for a long time, Agnes and the Hitman had supplanted it as my favorite Jenny Crusie book, quite a while ago now.

But I was looking for another Susan Ericksen listen one afternoon, and here it was...Fred, and Nina/Alex. The minute I saw it, I had to have it.

Hearing this dear old story in Susan's voices, has put Anyone but You BACK ON TOP as my favorite Jenny Crusie book. There's something so world-weary, yet hopeful in Susan's voices that it's impossible not to just...come back, and join Nina's story again and again.

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Excellent narrators for classic King collection

Revisado: 04-07-20

MOST LISTENERS would prefer that anthologies with multiple narrators LIST WHO IS READING EACH STORY! How hard can that be, Audible?

These are excellent renditions of many early Stephen King favorites; well worth investing my monthly credit to hear them in new voices.

The Mist- Will Patton (consists of chapters 1-11, since it's a long novella)
Here There Be Tygers – Kyle Beltran
The Monkey – Matthew Broderick
Cain Rose Up – Kyle Beltran
Mrs Todd’s Shortut – Dana Ivey
The Jaunt - Robert Petkoff
The Wedding Gig – Paul Giamatti
Paranoid: a Chant – Will Patton
The Raft – Stephen King
Word Processor of the Gods – Norbert Leo Butz
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - Paul Giamatti
Beach World – Michael C Hall
The Reapers Image – David Morse
Nona - Norbert Leo Butz
For Owen – David Morse
Survivor Type - Norbert Leo Butz
Uncle Otto’s Truck – David Morse
Morning Deliveries, Milkman # 1 – Dylan Baker
Big Wheels: Tales of the Laundry Game : Milkman # 2 – Dylan Baker
Gramma – Frances Sternhagen
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet – Michael C Hall (consists of chapters 32 and 33)
The Reach – Lois Smith

I know I'm not the only listener who will want to have this info.

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