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The Summer Before the War
- A Novel
- De: Helen Simonson
- Narrado por: Fiona Hardingham
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,994
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,811
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,800
East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Divine Book Club Listening
- De Gillian en 03-24-16
- The Summer Before the War
- A Novel
- De: Helen Simonson
- Narrado por: Fiona Hardingham
A favorite!
Revisado: 06-24-23
I have now read/listened to this 3 times. I loved returning to the well developed characters including that of the town of Rye. A beautifully written, historical novel.
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- How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
- De: Christie Tate
- Narrado por: Christie Tate
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,562
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,352
The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - and finds human connection, and herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unrealistic and Unethical
- De Kayla Okarski en 10-29-20
- Group
- How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
- De: Christie Tate
- Narrado por: Christie Tate
Disappointed
Revisado: 08-23-22
As an avid reader of various genre it takes a lot to keep me from finishing a book. This author’s style, including her significant oversharing of her group members private details did it. If you are looking for a tell all book then this is interesting, but beyond that this book disappoints. It’s unfortunate the reviews are not more balanced (that is part of the problem with Amazon reviews and marketing). In addition I found the readers tone and volume jarring. It left me feeling dysregulated rather than relaxed and wanting more listening.
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The Garden of Evening Mists
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 776
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 686
Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 03-11-13
- The Garden of Evening Mists
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
A trip to Malaysia in my Mind
Revisado: 06-03-17
This book, beautifully written, brought me back to my own time in Malaysia and Singapore. I loved disappearing into it each day. The reading was well done and caught the accents from the region in a fair manner. However, I did find the book a bit long in places especially the earlier and middle chapters.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45,966
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,589
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,419
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
Fascinating if a bit long
Revisado: 03-03-17
I just loved this book and would have given it 5 stars but for its length. On the one hand the length was needed to unfold the story, on the other it made it slightly hard to follow in audible format since I couldn't easily flip back to heck names and characters and dates.
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Beer Money
- A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
- De: Frances Stroh
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Beer boring
- De Richard E. Putt Jr. en 05-22-16
- Beer Money
- A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
- De: Frances Stroh
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
Somewhat interesting
Revisado: 05-21-16
I chose this book based on another high review and I was disappointed. While I give the author credit for sharing candidly her life, both the good memories and the difficult, I found after awhile it seemed like whining (not necessarily all by her, but through her) without a point or plot. The writing was at times above average and at times forced; the outline flowing in places and messy or lost in others.
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