By: Donna Barba Higuera / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo / Cover Illustration By: Raxenne Maniquiz
Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
What a surprise! What a delight! Intricate, thoughtful… heartrending and heartwarming!!!
The Last Cuentista
Patron Saints of Nothing
By: Randy Ribay / Narrated By: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Kinda a surprise, but wholly delighted!
Too Soon for Adiós
Everyone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Egregiously atrocious narration aaaalmost completely tanks this >MEH< story…
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Paula
By: Isabel Allende / Foreword By: Isabel Allende / Narrated By: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
Ah Jeez… it’s like watching sausage getting made… poor Paula
Nueva Canción
The Lost Recordings
By: Luis Alberto González Arenas, Diego Morales De Murga / Narrated By: Robb Moreira, Thom Rivera, Ozzie Rodriguez, Gabriel Romero, Pietro Gonzalez, Julia Vera Andrews, Frankie Corzo, Rene Veron
Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
Intricate, Inspiring, Very Well-Done
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Written and Narrated By: Pablo Cartaya
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Compelling Concept and Successful Execution… There, I’ve managed to take the oh sooo large heart outta a truly beautiful story that’s wonderful for all ages…!!!
No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán, Roxanne Hernandez, Marcelo Tubert, Thom Rivera
Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Some of the most Non-Story short stories I’ve encountered
Death with Interruptions
By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Paul Baymer
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
Social Commentary? Check. A Bit O’ Sweetness…? Uhm, well, yeah… Go Death, Go!
Where I Come From
A Long Petal of the Sea
A Novel
By: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Fiction with plot devices, imagery, magical lyricism? No. History and Love defined and lived? Yessss!
Solimar
The Sword of Monarchs
By: Pam Munoz Ryan / Narrated By: Franchesca Agramonte
Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
Liked this from the first Listen!
Earth Angel with a Green Card
The Light of the Fireflies
By: Paul Pen / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Scott Merriman
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Good translation, but OY The Words!!!
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
A time long past with lush prose that skirts on flowery, but dude! was our hero a creep, or what?!
The Water Museum
Stories
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
Urrea’s stellar narration aaaalways makes his work, his words, SUBLIME
Rita Moreno
Coco
A Story About Music, Shoes, and Family
By: Diana López / Narrated By: Frankie Maria Corzo
Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
A real charmer!