Big Sis’s Birthday

If we choose, before we’re born, the people who will be in our lives, I think it’s dadgum AWEsome my sister and I chose each other.
My sister is all that is graceful, all that is vibrant. And her mind! Holy cow! Inquisitive and lively.
But one can never forget, if one has the great good fortune to speak to her for even a single second, that she is a woman who is generous with her heart and soul.
We are blessed to be honoring her here, my dearest childhood friend and the very heart of Audiobook Accomplice.
Your devoted little sis.
P.S. I’m still mom’s favorite!

Go to Big Sis’s 2022 Newsletter to read my 2022 birthday wish for her!
Go to Big Sis’s 2021 Newsletter to read my 2021 birthday wish for her!
Go to Big Sis’s 2020 Newsletter to read my 2020 birthday wish for her!
Go to Big Sis’s 2019 Newsletter to read my 2019 birthday wish for her!
Audiobooks for aN Eclectic Woman with heart!
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By: Dan Mooney / Narrated By: Aidan Kelly
Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
An old trope? Yeh, but oh my good golly gosh: The laughter! The tears! The drop-dead GORGEOUS storytelling!!!
Series: A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, Book 1
By: Vaseem Khan / Narrated By: Sartaj Garewal
Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
Oh what a charming start to a series! Now? When to listen to Book Twoooooo…!!!
By: Kevin Wilson / Narrated By: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Yeh yeh yeh—ya see the ending a mile off… oh but that final TWIST! Yessss!!!
The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew at His Side
By: Damien Lewis / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
LOVED IT!!!
By: Simon Stephens, Nick Payne / Narrated By: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge
Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
Oh so quiet; oh so devastating
Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer / Narrated By: Chike Johnson
Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
What a wonderful boy! What a wonderful audiobook!!!
By: Sara Baume / Narrated By: John Keating
Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
Stunning writing with perfect narration!
By: Steffan Piper / Narrated By: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Cowards & Men. Nick Podehl makes this one of my favorites!
By: Hiro Arikawa / Translated By: Philip Gabriel / Narrated By: George Blagden
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Best book I’ve listened to in a long time; it’s just THAT good!
A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
By: Joseph Conrad / Narrated By: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
Creepy story; BRILLIANT narration!
Women in the Greek Myths
Written and Narrated By: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
A really, really good Listen, but here’s the thing:
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
“Caustic rhetoric”?!? Yesssss!!!
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!
The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
Written and Narrated By: Jeff Henigson
Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
Wonderful -BUT- Why on EARTH did his mom marry his dad?!
By: Greer Macallister / Narrated By: Julia Whelan, Nick Podehl
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Emotional and slooooowly developing story turns into a sweet sob-fest…!
By: Rachel Carson / Narrated By: Kaiulani Lee
Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
The Classic that inspired the EPA. Boy, I’ll bet Carson is turning in her grave to see what the EPA became in the last presidency…
By: Nick Jans / Narrated By: Tom Perkins
Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
A long, and at times drawn out, account of one wolf’s Journey…
By: Cathleen Schine / Narrated By: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
A story of girls growing up… and then becoming real jerks… But the parents were AWEsome!
By: Andy Giesler / Narrated By: Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
Absolutely wonderful, but don’t be all shocked and offended if…
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
Soooo good, but DEFinitely a mixed bag of emotions
A Love Story
By: Elizabeth Lesser / Narrated By: Sally Field
Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
Live from your marrow; love from your marrow!
By: Ben Mikaelsen / Narrated By: Lee Tergesen
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Rage. Lies. Ultimately, though? Freedom.
By: Kate Morton / Narrated By: Joanne Froggatt
Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
Finely wrought with, like, a GAZILLION and six characters
By: Grace Lin / Narrated By: Janet Song
Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
Ignore the wandering mind and stick with this little gem!
A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky / Narrated By: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
I felt so sorry for myself that Sapolsky didn’t narrate this, but then I got over it and had a really good time!
From Dreams to Disorders
Series: The Great Courses
Lecturer: Craig H. Heller
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
If you’re a boob and wanna feel even more like a boob—
The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
Written and Narrated By: Heather Harpham
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
A dramatic narration sometimes pushes this very good book over the top
A Novel
By: Emily Nemens / Narrated By: Vivienne Leheny, Malcolm Hillgartner, Will Ropp, James Patrick Cronin
Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
Was okay, but if you like to think of sport figures as heroes…? OUCH
A Novel
By: Anne Tyler / Narrated By: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
Has the feel of a novel outline rather than a fleshed-out novel
By: Arundhati Roy / Narrated By: Sneha Mathan
Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
Lusciously written, fraught with commentary, and nary a plot to be found
On the Love of Cats and Persons
By: Peter Trachtenberg / Narrated By: Joe Geoffrey
Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
Love. Life. Cats. Very good, but Peter is, quite possibly, a jerk…
The Surprising Truth About Language
By: David Shariatmadari / Narrated By: Damian Lynch
Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
My “Gosh, I’m such an idiot” Listen for this year…
By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Narrated By: Eileen Stevens
Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
12 hours and 1 minute is about 12 hours too long
A Novel
By: Richard Flanagan / Narrated By: Essie Davis
Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Oh gosh! Juuust read the Publisher’s Summary! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If this is “dazzling”? I’m shootin’ m’ foot off!