By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…
Last Stories
The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James / Narrated By: Penelope Rawlins, Ben Elliot
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
The return of a favorite… yesssss!
The Plague
Silas Marner
Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez / 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?!
To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee / Narrated By: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
A reSOUNDingly good book becomes a Heart-Melter with Spacek doing the honors!!!
The Red Tent
My Man Jeeves
Series: Jeeves and Wooster, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
I can’t imagine ANYONE other than Jonathan Cecil as the voice of P.G. Wodehouse!!!
Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë / Narrated By: Davina Porter
Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
Loved it, but Lucy Snowe ain’t no Jane Eyre…
The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok / Narrated By: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Understated and slow crafting did NOT have me prepared for a tear-filled ending…!
Notes from the Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
How can something be so heartrending yet so hilarious yet so exasperating yet so yet so yet so?!
Captain Blood
Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes / Translated By: Edith Grossman / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 39 hrs and 37 mins
Almost 40 hours went by so very fast!
Love
By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Not sure, but I think I might’ve mightily liked this…?!
Mansfield Park
(Amazon Classics Edition)
By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
A “rediscovered” classic that became a favorite now becomes a TREASURE!
The Guest Cat
Around the World in Eighty Days
Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges / Translated By: Andrew Hurley / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
CERTAINLY it’s the translation! It CAN’T be that Borges is full of himself?!?
Of Mice and Men
Beowulf
A New Verse Translation
Translated By: Seamus Heaney / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
And here’s something else I missed in high school!