Volume 232: October 1, 2023

Volume 232: October 1, 2023

 

Hello fellow Accomplice!

Y’all can tell it’s October, baby!

Welcome to Halloween month with King Poopie Boy Jules, the MOST patient Glorious Boy EVER!!! This month is m’ fave of the year with cooler weather and dressing up cats. Poor cats…

Within this newsletter is a month’s worth of reviews, and?

May you find something to your liking!

As always, feel free to share your favorites with me!

Or share your audiobook accomplice stories and photos!

Just comment below on this week’s reviews or email me at: Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com!


And Yesssss!

Gearing up for Halloween with the Winner of My Next Listen… by a gazillion (And six!) votes.

The rest of October? Why, celebrating the birthday of a dear Dear DEAR Friend, a Doulos Extraordinaire, and musician of note who is just starting his best life. (And have I mentioned? The man is an Assyriologist! Seriously, the dude rocks!)

The best thing about having your own website? You get to celebrate beloved friends any freaking way you like!

Won’t you join me in listening to his Fave authors and books?

Oooor? Halloween, dude!!!

Details for the first week’s audiobooks are on the Listening to Now page.

Next up?

Well, November brings to mind stuff that, well, makes m’ tummy growl.

And so, here’s a veritable smorgasbord of Foodie-types o’ Listens.

Doesn’t matter if it’s fiction. Doesn’t matter if it’s nonfiction.

Dude!

If it’s about food, I’m THERE!

It’s juuuust that? Well, I can’t decide.

So do vote now and vote often, and November will bring a jolly good (HOPEFULLY) Thanksgiving Listen!

Details for the audiobooks are at Tell Me What’s Next. Feel free to also suggest another audiobook for future review.


Click on any review image, title or Read More → to go to the full review! Additional links may also be available for authors, narrators and genres. Click on the back arrow to return to this page.

 

September Favorite:

Series: The Ill-Mannered Ladies, Book 1

By: Alison Goodman / Narrated By: Kristin Atherton

Fiction, Mystery Faves, Epics 15-16 Hours, Women Sleuths, Regency Romance

Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins

Thrilling, poignant, hilarious—just BRILLIANTLY written and narrated!!!

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Fiction:

By: Jennifer Ryan / Narrated By: Jasmine Blackborow

Fiction, Food, WWII Fiction, Women’s Historical Fiction

Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins

Light. Predictable. But, uhm, I really really liked it… so sue me…!!!

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Series: Rick Riordan Presents, Paola Santiago, Book 1

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo

Fiction, (…Fairy…?!) Tales With A Twist!, Kids Fantasy

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

FINALLY! Our Latinx roots and mythology get some lovin’… and how’d it all turn out…?!

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A Pride & Prejudice Variation

By: Jayne Bamber / Narrated By: Amanda S. Brown

Fiction, All Things Jane Austen

Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins

P&P meets Groundhog Day—flashes of brilliance with flashes of tedium, but some chucklesome moments as well… plus GREAT narration!

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By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Simon Vance

Fiction, Shorter Classics, World Classics, It’s in the Writing  Humor, In You Face Situations!

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Jolly decent, but it’s an odd odd ODD day when one has to say: Simon Vance is no Jonathan Cecil…!

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By: Natalia Sylvester / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo

Fiction, Magical Realism, Hispanic Contemporary Fiction

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Egregiously atrocious narration aaaalmost completely tanks this >MEH< story…

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By: Annette Chavez Macias / Narrated By: Luzma Ortiz

Fiction, Contemporary Hispanic Fiction, Contemporary Romance

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

A high 3-starred  >MEH<

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Nonfiction:

By: Joseph Pfeifer / Narrated By: Fred Sanders

Nonfiction, 9-11 Remembrance, American History, 21st Century

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Heartfelt and sobering. From the first Chief There, a man who lost his brother(s)

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Our Beloved Sweet Drake… with festive Jules. There are no words for how he is missed. But hard as it is, it turns out Life goes on…

May you enjoy this month, May y’all stay safe, and hope to see y’all in November…!

Your Accomplice, Gillian


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