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Thoughts on *Await Your Reply* by Dan Chaon (audiobook)

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon, read by Kirby Heyborne
9 CDs

Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb):  Three strangers who are trying to find their way in the wake of loss become entwined in an identity theft scheme, which has a resounding impact on them all. At once a gripping pageturner, a gorgeously written [...]

*The Double Bind* by Chris Bohjalian (audiobook)

The Double Bind written by Chris Bohjalian, read by Susan Denaker
 Publisher: BOT Essentials
 Release Date: February 13, 2007

Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb): When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless [...]

Thoughts on *The Particular Sadness of a Lemon Cake* by Aimee Bender (audiobook)

The Particular Sadness of a Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Unabridged Audiobook: 8 hours and 45 minutes
Publisher: Random House Audio (June 1, 2010)

Back-of-the-box blurb: On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: [...]

Thoughts on *Secrets of Eden* by Chris Bohjalian (audiobook)

Secrets of Eden writtten by Chris Bohjalian, read by  Mark Bramhall, Susan Denaker, Rebecca Lowman, and Kathe Mazur
Unabridged Audio CD (9 discs)
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (February 2, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0307705037

Back-of-the-book blurb: A novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

 

“There,” says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the [...]

Thoughts on *The Red Tent* by Anita Diamant (audiobook)

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant; read by Carol Bilger
Audio CD
Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (January 5, 2002)
ISBN-13: 978-1559277099

Back-of-the-box blurb: The Red Tent is based upon a mention in Genesis of Jacob’s only female offspring–his daughter, Dinah.

Author Anita Diamant, in the voice of Dinah, gives an insider’s look at the details of women’s lives in [...]

Thoughts on *Tabloid City* audiobook by Pete Hamill

Tabloid City written by Pete Hamill, read by Peter Ganim and Ellen Archer
Unabridged audiobook (CD)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (May 5, 2011)
ISBN-13: 978-0316020756

Back-of-the-box blurb: In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:

The [...]

Thoughts on *Does the Noise in My Head Bother You* by Steven Tyler

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? A Rock ‘n Roll Memoir written by Steven Tyler, read by Jeremy Davidson
Audio CD (15 hours on 13 CDs)
Publisher: HarperAudio; Unabridged edition (May 3, 2011)
ISBN-13: 978-0061841972

Back-of-the-box blurb: Born Steven Victor Tallarico on March 26, 1948, in Yonkers, New York, Steven Tyler is the iconic songwriter, composer, and [...]

Brief Review: *The Garden of Last Days* by Andre Dubus III

The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (May 17, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-039304165-1

Back-of-the-book blurb: One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April’s usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it’s best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children’s videos in [...]

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 [...]

Thought on *Birds of a Feather* by Jacqueline Winspear (audiobook)

Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs, book #2)
Audio CD (9 CDs, about 10.5 hours total)
Publisher: Sound Library; Unabridged edition (June 2005)
ISBN-13: 978-0792736653

Birds of a Feather grabbed me even more than the original Maisie Dobbs.  Although I really enjoyed that first novel – and it gave the background for me to understand Maisie’s [...]