By: Lisa McMann / Narrated By: Alexa Magro
Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
NOT flat-out grand; but jeez… Wound up sobbing a time… or two…
Longshadow
Series: Regency Faerie Tales, Book 3
By: Olivia Atwater / Narrated By: Madeleine Leslay
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Muuuuuuch anticipated Book 3! And so delighted by it all!!!
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Novel
By: Shelby Van Pelt / Narrated By: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Tired old trope? You betcha. Luminous, brilliant crafting, a story that’ll make you cry? OH GOSH YES!
Marianne
Series: Miss Wolfraston's Ladies, Book 1
By: Jenny Hambly / Narrated By: Helen Taylor
Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
Might be a tad This Has Been Done Before-ish, but sweet overall. …and… HELEN TAYLOR!!!
Bellwether
By: Connie Willis / Narrated By: Kate Reading
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Cutesy becomes utterly DELIGHTFUL when paired with Chaos Theory…!
Gilgamesh
A New English Version
Translated By: Stephen Mitchell / Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
From a chick with absolutely noooo interest in cuneiform… Huzzah for Mitchell!
Henrietta & Eleanor
A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson / Dramatist: Libby Spurrier / Narrated By: Holliday Grainger, Clive Mantle, Carla Mendonça, Miranda Raison
Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
SUPERB production that starts whizbang sharp and then…? Scooby Doooo, where are youuuu?!?
Summer of My German Soldier
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
By: Kurt Vonnegut / Narrated By: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
“We Are Here On Earth To Fart Around”—Kurt Vonnegut (YouTube 2004)!!!
Austenland
Series: Austenland, Book 1
By: Shannon Hale / Narrated By: Katherine Kellgren
Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
Some >MEH< and some >HUZZAH<
Bright's Passage
Fifteen Dogs
A Companion for the Count
Series: Clairvoir Castle Romances, Book 2
By: Sally Britton / Narrated By: Jessica Elisa Boyd
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Wherein I spend a bit too much time on the narration, but hey! Lovely book overall!!!
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Series: Monk & Robot, Book 1
By: Becky Chambers / Narrated By: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
A quiet and gentle story about things actually NOT Blowing BIG Time… oh thank gosh!!!
The Astonishing Life of August March
A Novel
By: Aaron Jackson / Narrated By: Joel Froomkin
Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
Charming and delightful winds up being Beautiful!!!
How Do You Live
By: Genzaburo Yoshino / Afterword and Translation By: Bruno Navasky / Foreword By: Neil Gaiman / Narrated By: Brian Nishii
Length: 6 hrs and 13 min
Ya know what? Didn’t like it until I started talking about it…
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Everyday Magic
The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack
By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Chris Devon
Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
Jess Kidd’s foray into Kids: Death! Mayhem! Witches on vacuum cleaners! Huzzah!
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!