H. O'Hollaren

Improving

Revisado: 05-06-24

Characters are more developed than in the first book of the series. I finished this one and put the rest of the series in my queue immediately. I did not care for this narrator and the nasally voice she gave to one of the key characters.

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Hmmm …

Revisado: 03-10-23

A strange story. Yes. That’s right. But beautiful writing. Once I sat back and stopped trying to follow every incongruous thread and simply let the words wash over me like poetry I enjoyed the experience a lot more.

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Meh.

Revisado: 01-22-23

Austen is among my very favorites. I must have missed that this was an abridged version before I bought it, which was very disappointing. I would have preferred a straight reading of the work over the more dramatized version recorded here with sound overlays, etc. No doubt many will like it, but it is not to my tastes.

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Meh.

Revisado: 01-12-23

Interesting story about a well known actress with less known talents. A bit melodramatic for my tastes, both in the writing and in the reading.

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Pretty good.

Revisado: 01-09-23

As a woman of a certain age, Kristin gets all the things exactly right. Her take on life is extremely relatable. Her reading of her work is ok. She doesn’t get the cadence and inflections just right. I probably would have enjoyed this book more if I had read the hard copy.

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Heartbreaking glimpse into the life of a bipolar man in the 1940s

Revisado: 05-12-22

Ms. Baird’s extensive research through her father’s papers as a way to get to know him after his death in a way she was never able to in life sketches out a troubled life, revealing horrifying conditions of treatment of the mentally ill in the 1940s. Fascinating and heartbreaking by turns, Ms. Baird’s book braids together her memories, her father’s account of his time in and out of mental hospitals, and the medical records of said hospitals to create a multi-dimensional story and vivid insight into life with mental illness. The book is good, the audio recording features three narrators, one of whom was too over-dramatic for my tastes.

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Worthy of all the accolades

Revisado: 04-11-22

Beautifully written and brilliantly read. Highly recommend this historical fiction masterpiece. Groff is a magician with the English language.

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Worth it!

Revisado: 09-25-21

An epic story of life, death, friendship, perseverance, and failings, wonderfully read. Our comfortable world today obfuscates the danger that past generations took for granted. This book is a testament to that spirit that looked danger and death in the face and pushed on.

This is an older recording, so it is not as polished as some of the newer recordings. There are many reviews that complain about that and about the narrator’s voice. After a handful of chapters, I was so pulled into the story and enthralled with Horsley’s ability differentiate his voice for the dozens of characters that I can’t imagine listening to the rest of the series without his performance. I loved this book and am so saddened to finish it.

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Worth it!

Revisado: 09-25-21

An epic story of life, death, friendship, perseverance, and failings, wonderfully read. Our comfortable world today obfuscates the danger that past generations took for granted. This book is a testament to that spirit that looked danger and death in the face and pushed on.

This is an older recording, so it is not as polished as some of the newer recordings. There are many reviews that complain about that and about the narrator’s voice. After a handful of chapters, I was so pulled into the story and enthralled with Horsley’s ability differentiate his voice for the dozens of characters that I can’t imagine listening to the rest of the series without his performance. I loved this book and am so saddened to finish it.

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Choose this one.

Revisado: 07-03-21

One of the loveliest books I’ve listened to in the last couple of years. Beautiful story and well read. Loved it.

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