I Want My Hours Back
Holy cow!
Just thinking of how much time I spent on these audiobooks—Seriously, I coulda been picking lint from my navel instead!—makes me shudder!
Let me save you some time and money... You're welcome!
Throttle-Inspiring Nonfiction:
A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer / Narrated By: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
A mishmash of EVERYthing that adds up to…? Uhm… not much…
24 Hours on the Line
By: Michael Gibney / Narrated By: Fred Berman
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
5 1/2+-hrs. of MEH, and Good GOSH, noooooo!!!
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
Written and Narrated By: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
A wandering academic treatise… with flourishes of purple prose…
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
Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
Written and Narrated By: Kevin Sites
Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
Self-Indulgent Trauma Voyeurism set m’ teeth very much on edge
A Dual Memoir of War and Vietnam
By: Susan R. Dixon, Mark M. Smith / Narrated By: Susan R. Dixon, Kevin Basl
Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
… I Want My Hours Back … Where on gosh’s green earth did Susan R. Dixon leave her Soul…?!?
A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
By: Jared Ross Hardesty / Narrated By: Joe Barrett
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
Yikes, I’ve a feeling Hardesty tried his darn-tootin’ best, but this is a noooo… Weep with me!
By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean / Narrated By: Sean Runnette
Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
SUCH True Science, I mean, like, reeeeally! has me Wanting ‘bout, ooooh I dunno, TWELVE of My Hours Back…?!
The Tale of Two Cultures
By: Kathryn Haueisen / Narrated By: Elizabeth B. Splaine
Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
…Ho. Ly… CRUD…
A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
By: Cat Cora / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Oy vey: Clueless! clueless! exASPeratingly clueless!
A Memoir
By: Melissa Gould / Narrated By: Rachel Botchan
Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
Where I FINally lost all sympathy and wanted to throttle Gould… wait for it… wait for it… HERE:
A True Story of Love and Friendship
Written and Narrated By: Martha Teichner
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Jeez! Oh how I haaaate saying with this one: I Want My Hours Back…! Also, a tiiiiiiny bit of a Spoiler Alert within this, sooo…
Overcoming Unhappily Ever After
Written and Narrated By: Brittani Louise Taylor
Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
Oy Vey—Spoiler Alerts ahead cuz I think I’m gonna save ya some money and some time you’ll never get back…
A Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Bakari Sellers
Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
A look at Black working class rural America? I think not. A look at Bakari being an ambitious bit of a buffoon? Oh totally…
By: Helen Fremont / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
So “unsparing” that Fremont should feel some sense of shame…
A Cross-Border Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Jean Guerrero
Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
Oh UGH!!! Where to start? Where to start?
Written and Narrated By: Anuradha Bhagwati
Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
Hmm… Would it be possible to haaaate this any more than I do…?
A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Written and Narrated By: Buzz Bissinger
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Lovely sons, but BOY is Buzz a despicable father and human being, or what?!?
Finding Peace When Pets Die
By: Jon Katz / Narrated By: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
The takeaway: if you make a mistake with an animal, it’s okay to eat them or send them to slaughterhouses… I’m SERIOUS!
A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
An Audible Exclusive Edition
Written and Narrated By: Rachel Hollis
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
1/3 inspirational, 1/3 exasperating, and 1/3 “Wanna-throttle-her”
End of Life Stories from the Bedside
By Gini Graham Scott, Sebastian Sepulveda MD / Narrated By Marlin May
Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
Sepulveda reminds us that Life is toooo short to waste on books like this!
Eye Roll-Inducing Fiction:
By: Jessica Vitalis / Narrated By: Curt Bonnem, Emily Rankin
Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
Disgusting. Reprehensible. Inspires Extreeeeme Regurgitation in the Mouth…
A Novel
By: Seishu Hase / Translated By: Alison Watts / Narrated By: Akie Kotabe
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Okaaaay… What. The. HECK! did I just listen to…?
A Novel
By: Ismail Kadare / Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
An ATROCITY on sooooo many levels…!!!
Series: Circles in Hell, Book 1
By: Mark Cain / Narrated By: Michael Gilboe
Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
Whazzis? Did I read the Publisher’s Summary? And did I get the first FOUR books in the series? Did I TOTALLY shoot m’self in the foot…?!
By: Emily X.R. Pan / Narrated By: Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain, David Shih
Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
The most unbearably HOT MESS I’ve had the misfortune to have screeched in m’ ears…
By: Alexander C. Kane / Narrated By: Khristine Hvam
Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
Sometimes? Do NOT go by the cover; do NOT go by the Publisher’s Summary! YIKES and Noooo!!!
By: Genevieve Gornichec / Narrated By: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
A mighty Booo! + Major Spoiler = This Review… you have been warned…
By: Italo Calvino / Narrated By: Jefferson Mays
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Hmmm… Will this be a delightful Second Listen…?!
By: Rita Williams-Garcia / Narrated By: Machelle Williams
Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
Not “Mesmerizing”! Not “A Masterpiece”! Not “Honest And Authentic”! Not ANY “…”!
By: Carol Rivers / Narrated By: Helen Dickens
Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
I thiiiiink it was sweet and all that, at least what I didn’t sleep through…
Series: Witching Hour,Book 1
By: Christine Zane Thomas / Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Insert Eye-Roll Here… and There… and There… and oh gosh…
By: Douglas Ford / Narrated By: Jenn Lee
Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
Did I get this on sale? Ah jeez, I’m really hoping I did…
By: Glendy Vanderah / Narrated By: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
When even Lauren Ezzo can’t Save The Day…
Written and Narrated By: Josh Ritter
Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
THIS is what happens when ya choose based on the cover art… Just NO!
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!
Written and Narrated By: Joanne M Harris
Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
I have a feeling I was supposed to LOVE this… but can I have Foooour Of My Freakin’ Hours Back?!?
By: Jennifer Moore, Chalon Linton, Jen Geigle Johnson, Heidi Kimball / Narrated By: Aubrey Warner
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Pretty sure the stories are this side of lame, but DANG is the narration what makes this an atrocity, or what?!
By: Jean Meltzer / Narrated By: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
Dude… Hard-Up for Hanukkah here
A Novel
Series: Borne
By: Jeff VanderMeer / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
Dude! Most of us outgrew LSD, like, our second years of college…!
By: Paul Pen / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Scott Merriman
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Good translation, but OY The Words!!!
A Novel
By: Andrea Camilleri / Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
Good cow—Got taken in by the cute cover and the danged Publisher’s Summary!
2,186 Miles of Friendship
By: Karen Lord Rutter / Narrated By: Charles Winfield
Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
Sweet, yes, but PLENty of Boooooo tooooo!!!
By: Barbara O'Neal / Narrated By: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Bless her sweet, wonderful soul—but not even Bernadette Dunne could save this unholy mess
By: Holly Martin / Narrated By: Penny Andrews
Length: 7 hrs
Uninspiring characters, shallow plot, AND twittery narration? Egad, how annoyed can I be?
By: Amy Meyerson / Narrated By: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
Oh my good golly gosh: Ya want your ears shrilled off by a woman old-enough-to-know-better throwing tantrums? Here ya go!
By: Grady Hendrix / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin
Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
Jiminy H. Freaking Crickets! I was expecting humor, sleuthing, some blood and whimsy! NOPE! Straight horror and characters who are weak until they absolutely HAD to do something.
A Novel
By: Jeanine Cummins / Narrated By: Yareli Arizmendi / Afterword By: Jeanine Cummins
Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
Don’t dislike it because Cummins is white and writing about brown people; dislike it cuz of sooo many other reasons
By: Candice Carty-Williams / Narrated By: Shvorne Marks
Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
Dunno when I’ve listened to a less likable heroine…
A Novel
By: Carlos Fuentes/ Translated By: Alfred MacAdam / Narrated By: Tony Chiroldes
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Amazing events in Mexico’s history… as told by a total jerk!