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Thoughts on *The Wife's Tale* (audiobook review)

The Wife’s Tale written by Lori Lansens; read by Justine Eyre
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD; MP3 Una edition (February 10, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1441817488

Back-of-the-box blurb: On the eve of their silver anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband, Jimmy — still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school — to come home. [...]

Thoughts on *An Object of Beauty* by Steve Martin (audiobook)

An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin; read by Campbell Scott
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (November 23, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1607886129

Back-of-the-box blurb: Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby’s and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men [...]

Thoughts on *Private Life* by Jane Smiley (audiobook)

Private Life: A Novel written by Jane Smiley; read by Kate Reading
Audio CD unabridged, 13.5 hours on 11 CDs
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (May 4, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0307715319

Back-of-the-box blurb: In the 1880s, Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s the [...]

Thoughts on *Earth* by Jon Stewart (audiobook) ... DNF

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race; read by Jon Stewart
Audio CD
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (October 8, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1607886150

Back-of-the-Box blurb: Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when [...]

Thoughts on *Room* by Emma Donoghue (audiobook)

Room by Emma Donoghue; read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren
Audio CD
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (September 13, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1607886273

Back-of-the-box blurb:  To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and [...]

Thoughts on *The Island* by Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)

The Island by Elin Hilderbrand; narrated by Denice Hicks
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (July 6, 2010); approx. 15 hrs on 13 CDs
ISBN-13: 978-1607882404

Back-of-the-box blurb:  Four women – a mother, her sister, two grown daughters – head to Tuckernuck for a retreat, hoping to escape their troubles. Intead, they find only drama, secrets, and life-changing revelations.

She Is Too Fond [...]

Thoughts on *The Swan Thieves* by Elizabeth Kostova (audiobook)

 

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Read by:  Treat Williams, Anne Heche, Erin Cottrell, Sarah Zimmerman, and John Lee
Audio CD – 17 discs
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (January 12, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1600247453

Back-of-the-box blurb:  Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow has a perfectly ordered life–solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order [...]

Thoughts on *Homer & Langley* by E. L. Doctorow (audiobook)

Homer & Langley: A Novel written by E. L. Doctorow; read by Arthur Morey
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (September 1, 2009); 6 CDs
ISBN-13: 978-0739334164

Back-of-the-box blurb:  Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers – the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They [...]

Thoughts on *Backseat Saints* by Joshilyn Jackson (audiobook)

Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson; read by Joshilyn Jackson
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (June 8, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1607882220

Back-of-the-box blurb:  Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self [...]

Thoughts on *The Time Traveler's Wife* by Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Audio CD )
Read by:  William Hope and Laura Lefkow
Publisher: HighBridge Company; Unabridged; 17.75 hours on 16 CDs edition (May 13, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1598877373

Back-of-the-box blurb:   Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six.  They were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry was thirty-one.  [...]