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Ghost Mother
- De: Kelly Dwyer
- Narrado por: Renata Friedman
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Lilly Bly desperately wants to have a baby. She is struggling with infertility and bad spending habits when her husband, Jack, gets a new job that moves them from Chicago to a small town in Wisconsin. Impractical Lilly falls in love with a decrepit mansion well out of their price range—she is convinced that she will finally get pregnant and have a baby in this house—and Jack agrees to it. But when Lilly learns that her dream house was the site of a gruesome triple homicide/suicide in the 1950s, she begins to experience strange occurrences that soon lead her to believe the house is haunted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The creep builds throughout the story to a fantastic ending!
- De K. en 08-16-24
- Ghost Mother
- De: Kelly Dwyer
- Narrado por: Renata Friedman
A modern day horror tale that delivers the goods!
Revisado: 08-11-24
The story is both a compelling mystery and a distinctly creepy horror tale. Influences from other great horror are blended with the author’s own (as she has said herself) personal experiences of motherhood to really bring this distinct story to life.
Lilly’s a fully-realized character whose progress (descent?) is alternately fascinating and frustrating to observe (especially her tenure at the library). To be clear that’s frustration with the character’s actions being self-defeating, not any kind of frustration with the writing itself.
The dynamics between Lilly and Jack rang very true as well.
The reader was excellent. Articulate, in command of the emotional peaks and valleys and great distinguishing of the individual characters. Might have been nice to have more midwestern authenticity to the Wisconsin character voices but that is a small complaint overall. I thought she was particular good with the male voices of Jack and especially Bobby, a true rake.
We were frequently putting it on pause and theorizing how it was going to play out. That’s the mark of a compelling story.
Highly recommended!
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The Starting Gate
- A Cocktail of Working, Drinking, Family and Zen
- De: Paul Mullin
- Narrado por: Paul Mullin
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In 13 chapters Paul Mullin mixes up a potent cocktail of working, drinking, family and Zen. It all starts - where else? - at the Starting Gate: a shit-kicker country bar in Northern Maryland where the author first started working at the age of 13, and where his boss once shot a man dead for trying to rob the local drug store. Other jobs follow, like when he works as the only white kid on an all-black labor crew at the National Archives, or the years he spends as a high-rise window cleaner in Manhattan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Evocative. Charming. Thoughtful.
- De RKC en 06-20-18
- The Starting Gate
- A Cocktail of Working, Drinking, Family and Zen
- De: Paul Mullin
- Narrado por: Paul Mullin
A great listen, well-presented and quite different from the standard fare on Audible.
Revisado: 01-14-18
Performance including accents of certain characters was excellent
Story is a misnomer, this really is a cocktail of a of autobiographical stories, worldview and no shortage of opinions. Overall flow was compelling though some further refinement could have been applied to sections on bar etiquette and Zen experiences.
Overall, a truly unique listen very much worth the time spent.
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