The Help by Kathryn Stockett This isn’t a review of the book itself, it’s a review of the audiobook. You can read tons of reviews of the book itself. This is the absolute best audiobook I’ve listened to. Rarely am I moved to tears by an audiobook. It’s no wonder that this won an AudioFile [...]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Renée is the concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris. Outwardly she appears to be addicted to television and not at all an interesting person. In real life, she’s a lover of art, literature and philosophy. Most of the tenants in her building barely know she [...]
Sam is experiencing a rough time in her life, a time that is causing her to question her faith. She’s the daughter of a pastor, her mother has recently entered rehab after a DUI and to complicate things, a girl from her church goes missing one Sunday. Sam begins to question everything she ever believed [...]
I’d seen this book in a lot of ads in School Library Journal and I wasn’t sure what it was about. I just know it seems to go out a lot from our teen area. As I do with a lot of books I don’t know a lot about, I decided to listen to it [...]
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerI love this book. I loved it when I first read it and I loved it as an audio book. I completely fell in love with this book all over again. At first the voices didn’t fit with my images of Clare and Henry but I got used to [...]
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd27 June 2005 – I started listening to this on my way back to work from lunch today. 6 July 2005 – While I was spinning a good part of the weekend, I was listening to The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd. It’s by the same author that [...]
At The Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith20 June 2005 – I enjoyed this but I wouldn’t consider this to be one of my favorites. 9 June 2005 – My grandfather is always raving about the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith, so I thought I would check one [...]
Ya-Ya’s In Bloom by Rebecca Wells4 June – I really enjoyed listening to this. I thought it might focus more on the Ya-Ya’s as young girls but that’s just the first part of the book. There are more stories about the Petite Ya-Ya’s (the children of the Ya-Ya’s) and the Tres Petites (the grandchildren). It [...]
Life Makeovers by Cheryl Richardson23 May – My second audio book for the car. After listening to this in the car, I decided to go ahead and buy the actual book. My first assignment was to come up with 25 accomplishments in the last 12 months. It was difficult at first, but yesterday when I [...]
The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson23 May – Bryan and I started listening to this in the car one day. I really liked it and listened to it in the car as I commuted back and forth to work each day. It really made an impression on me. I’ve set out on a path [...]
