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Title: Looking Glass Lies

Author: Varina Denman

Narrator: Eric G. Dove, Sarah Naughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A poignant and relatable novel, Looking Glass Lies captures the war women wage against themselves, and the struggle to see beauty reflected in a mirror not distorted by society's unrelenting expectations.

For most of her adult life, Cecily Ross has compared herself to other women - and come up short. After a painful divorce from her emotionally abusive husband, Cecily returns to her hometown of Canyon, Texas, looking to heal.

But coming home isn't what she expects. In a town as small as Canyon, her pain is difficult to escape - especially with her model-perfect ex - sister-in-law working at the town's popular coffee-shop hangout. With help from her father, a support group, and an old friend who guides her to see her own strengths, Cecily may have a shot at overcoming her insecurities and learning to love again.

The true test comes when tragedy strikes, opening Cecily's eyes to the harmfulness of her distorted views on beauty - and giving her the perfect opportunity to find peace at last.

Members Reviews:

This book is for every girl, everywhere, that has ever felt less than enough...

I wanted to put this book down so many times, but I couldn't. I'm not just speaking figuratively, either. I would physically put the book down and then pick it right back up again. "One more chapter, one more chapter..."

This book is for every girl, everywhere, that has ever felt less than enough. Not smart enough. Not talented enough. Not popular enough. Not fit enough. Not pretty enough. Or even... not pretty at all.

Oh, that we could wear a sign around our neck that says, "Fragile spirit: proceed with caution." No one knows what's going on in the recesses of our mind; not everyone wears their inner demons on their sleeve for all to see. What kind of world would it be if we did?

One year post-divorce (the circumstances surrounding it revealed in brief snippets throughout the story), Cecily finds herself back home, living with her father in the town where she grew up. Unfortunately, her demons have followed her and if it weren't for the quirky, steadfast leader of her support group and an old acquaintance turned loved interest, her battle would be hard won.

Looking Glass Lies deals with the war between one's inner voice and the voices inside one's head that merely echo the world's distorted expectations of beauty. In it, our heroine is forced to ask herself, over and over and over again, "Is it my own voice I hear when I look in the mirror?" The answer, more often than not, is a resounding 'no'. So we are privy to the emotional workings of her journey as she struggles to discern between what is truth and what is a lie, the battle both inward and outward, discouraging and inspiring.

There are lots of areas where I would have loved to have had more of the story to chew through & digest. (view spoiler) And yet, to dwell on any of these points of the story would have been to detract from Cecily's story and the inner dialogue that has the power to speak to every reader on a deeply emotional, authentic level.

While it's a tough subject to read, the message within makes it worth every word. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy to finally be able to set the book down, but it's only a matter of time before I pick it up again.

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Titre: L'Inceste

Auteur: Christine Angot

Narrateur: Christine Angot

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-27-17

Éditeur: Gallimard

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Christine Angot va gagner. Parce qu'elle ne risque pas de plaire. Elle va trop vite, trop fort, trop loin, elle bouscule les formes, les cadres, les codes, elle en demande trop au lecteur. Elle a enjambé la niaiserie fin de siècle. Elle n'est pas humaniste, elle a fait exploser le réalisme, la pseudo-littérature consensuelle, provocante ou faussement étrange, pour poser la seule question, la plus dérangeante : quel est le rapport d'un écrivain à la réalité ?" (Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde des livres)

©1998 Christine Angot, première publication aux éditions Stock. Tous droits réservés (P)2016 Éditions Gallimard, pour la présente édition

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Titre: Confess

Auteur: Colleen Hoover

Narrateur: Ana Piévic

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-13-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Auburn Reed a des plans très précis pour son avenir, et elle ne laissera personne se mettre sur son chemin.

Lorsqu'elle franchit la porte d'une galerie d'art à Dallas pour un entretien, elle s'attend à tout sauf à l'irrésistible attraction qui la pousse vers Owen Gentry. Cet artiste énigmatique semble avoir beaucoup de choses à vouloir cacher à tout prix. Pour tenter de découvrir ses secrets les plus intimes, Auburn va baisser toutes ses barrières, pour comprendre qu'elle risque bien plus gros qu'elle ne pensait. Elle n'a qu'une solution : s'éloigner d'Owen au plus vite. Mais la dernière chose que souhaite Owen, c'est la perdre. Pour sauver leur relation, il devra tout confesser. Mais parfois, les mots peuvent être bien plus destructeurs que la vérité...

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©2016 Hugo Roman (P)2017 Audible Studios

Avis des membres:

Five Stars

C'est une belle histoire

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Titolo: Alla pari

Autore: Claudia de Lillo

Narratore: Claudia de Lillo

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 04-13-17

Editore: Emons Edizioni

Valutazioni: 5 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Una famiglia sgangherata e caotica è quella in cui piomba Alice, ventenne americana, con le idee confuse e un dolore da smaltire. Una mail dopo l'altra, la ragazza racconta ad amici e parenti dall'altra parte dell'oceano le sue divertenti avventure domestiche alle prese con un'adolescente pestifera, un ragazzino eccentrico, un piccolo alieno, ma anche una madre workaholic e un padre piacione.

Un romanzo epistolare frizzante, intelligente e ricco d'ironia.

©2016 Claudia de Lillo. Published by arrangement with S&P Literary - Agenzia letteraria Sosia & Pistoia (P)2017 Emons Italia srl

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Titre: Un aller simple

Auteur: Didier van Cauwelaert

Narrateur: Didier van Cauwelaert

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 49 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-08-16

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 3.5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

À propos de ce titre

Prix Goncourt 1994.

"J'ai commencé dans la vie comme enfant trouvé par erreur. Volé avec la voiture, en fait... C'était une Ami 6 de race Citroën, alors on m'a appelé Ami 6, en souvenir. Avec le temps, pour aller plus vite, c'est devenu Aziz."

Recueilli par les Tsiganes des quartiers nord de Marseille, Aziz est un sans-papiers de naissance. À dix-huit ans, n'ayant pas les moyens de s'acheter un faux passeport français, il s'offre la nationalité marocaine, et sa vie bascule. Expulsé vers son prétendu pays "d'origine", dans le cadre d'une grande opération médiatique du gouvernement français, il se retrouve dans le Haut-Atlas en compagnie d'un attaché humanitaire chargé de le "réinsérer dans ses racines".

Avec ce voyage initiatique aussi drôle que poignant, cette histoire d'amitié imprévisible entre un petit délinquant seul au monde et un fonctionnaire idéaliste en dépression nerveuse, Didier van Cauwelaert a signé son plus grand succès, traduit en vingt-cinq langues, couronné par le prix Goncourt.

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©1994 Albin Michel (P)2016 Audible FR

Avis des membres:

Bonne lecture

Demain je vais aller au book club à l'alliance franaise pour discuter ce roman. J'ai beaucoup de l'analyses à faire: Lâidentité, les renversements des rles, les caractères étrangers, et des événements bizarre qui a déroulé. N'oublie pas les rves dans l'imagination qui détermine lâavenir. Le dénouement est incroyable. La comédie combinée avec la tragédie produit une excellente histoire mélodramatique. Il y a beaucoup de questions à discuter, le signe dâun bon livre. Bonne lecture.

a pleasure

This book is so well documented, it's a fairy tale grounded in reality, very well written and incredibly fascinating, I couldn't put it down.

Not my favorite.

I had to read this novel for my French class and I really wanted to like it but it was just an odd narrative. Not my kind of book.

A great read.

A very interestingly constructed novel. A great read.

Five Stars

great; arrived on time and exactly as described

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Title: Saving Phoebe Murrow

Author: Herta Feely

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist, this heart-wrenching debut for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jane Shemilt and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas will make you question how you and your family spend time online.

Isabel Murrow is precariously balancing her career and her family. Hard-working and caring, worried but supportive, all Isobel wants, in a perilous world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter Phoebe safe.

Phoebe has just attempted suicide. She says it is Isabel's fault.

Saving Phoebe Murrow is a timely tale about an age-old problem - how best to raise our children, and how far to go in keeping them from harm. Set amidst the complicated web of relationships at the school gate, it tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge.

Critic Reviews:

"Satisfyingly realistic..." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Saving Phoebe Murrow is a believable, gripping, heart-wrenching novel about how reality can be tragically manipulated in this age of social media." (Jyotsna Sreenivasan, author of And Laughter Fell From the Sky)

"Insightful, gripping, in the end thrilling. Most highly recommended." (Wayne Johnson, author of The Devil You Know)

Members Reviews:

A riveting story about adolescence, family and the consequences of a single act of cruelty.

â Saving Phoebe Morrow,â takes us deep into the often fraught and risky world of teenage girls, viewed through a motherâs worried gaze. What does it mean to be a good mother, when the cruelty and betrayals of adolescence go to far? How do we keep our daughters from harm and how far should we intrude into their lives to do so? Herta Feely deftly pens a riveting story about a mother whose â perfect lifeâ threatens to unravel, in the wake of a cruel act of cyberbullying. That single thoughtless act unleashes a cascade of unexpected consequences for the whole family and beyond. From the first page, I couldnât put this book down.

A timely, thoughtful good read...

Saving Phoebe Murrow is a compelling read. I quickly got so caught up with the characters and their stories that I couldnât put the book down. The book is centered in people and circumstances with which many readers can easily identify. Busy professional parents striving to balance their careers with their familyâs needs and their own internal conflicts, including different approaches to parenting and marriage. At its core, however, this is the story of a teenage girl struggling to find and define herself even as her hormones begin to rage and her insecurities multiply. It doesnât help that her girlfriends and potential boyfriends â online and off -- arenât always nice and arenât always who or what they appear to be. The timeliness and importance of Phoebeâs story, however, is centered in demonstrating the devastating effects of cyberbullying. Who among us hasnât taken affront with the Wild West elements of social media? It is a frontier in which there are few rules and far too many people are intent to be outraged, mean-spirited, hurtful, and sometimes deceitful. Herta Feelyâs debut novel compels us to recognize that for all its benefits, todayâs online world can be troubling terrain for adults and a devastating environment for children and adolescents.

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Title: She Has No Name

Author: Angelique Lafontaine

Narrator: Samuel Schwarz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-16

Publisher: Angelique LaFontaine

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

You will not find a happy ending or romantic interludes; there will be no heroes to save the day nor will justice prevail. You will see nothing more than the rawness of the world narrated to you by an individual seeing the world through her own eyes. Take a glimpse into a small portion of her life and bear witness to the transformation from a young girl to a young woman and take note of her biases, her jadedness, and her level of sensitivity. She will share with you her triumphs and her heartaches, all delivered absent of emotion. The incidents here are not relevant; the outcomes warrant neither approval nor rebuttal; people are not important in this story, relationships are inconsequential, and our heroine is nothing more than a tiny thread in a largely woven tapestry. For these reasons, she has no name.

Members Reviews:

She Has No Name

I noticed online that the author was asking for people to read and review her novel. Having a free afternoon I decided I would read and review it.

The novel is listed as fiction and written in the first person. The story is one of physical and emotional abuse and may not be suitable for all audiences. It also includes underage drinking, drug abuse and underage sexual situations including rape.

Any story of abuse is difficult to read. The very real emotions of the victims are hard to deal with and their stories traumatic. They wrench our hearts and bring emotions to the surface. We want them to leave the situation or be rescued.

Unfortunately in this novel the protagonist never elicits that kind of response. Her affect throughout is so flat and without definition it is hard to find her as a person to identify with. Caught in the cycle of abuse going from one bad relationship to another she appears more apathetic than sympathetic. The same is true of her abusers. They never have a defined personality and are more an adjunct to the plot that participants in it.

There are also more than a few grammatical, spelling and word use errors that take away from the reading of the story.

I have given the novel 3 Stars more for the attempt to bring abuse into the light of day and stop the cycle than the writing or storyline.

Karen Bryant Doering,

Parent's Little Black Book

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Title: Finding Heather

Author: Alison Ragsdale

Narrator: Mhairi Morrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Heather Forester is losing her grip on reality. She turns up at the airport to meet her pilot husband, Brett - and then she remembers: he's not coming back. Brett died months ago, leaving her lost in the crippling, confusing maze of widowhood.

Now alone with her seven-year-old twins, Heather craves the support of her mother and brother, who are halfway across the world in Scotland. But when she moves her fractured family to her homeland, their lives change in ways she never could have anticipated.

As her children struggle to fit in to their new home, family, and school, Heather also wrestles with the painful truth that she has become a stranger in her own hometown.

Surrounded by the rugged, breathtaking beauty of the Isle of Skye's rocky coastline, velvet moors, and lush forests, Heather must face challenges old and new as she puts her life back together and learns the healing power of family.

Members Reviews:

Strong characters, nice storyline

I didn't think I would enjoy this book as much as I did. The characters drew me in very successfully and I felt a little sad when it ended.

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Title: Today Will Be Different

Author: Maria Semple

Narrator: Kathleen Wilhoite

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: Orion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after dropping her son, Timby, off at school. She'll see an old friend for lunch. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action - life happens.

For today is the day Timby has decided to pretend to be ill to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day surgeon Joe has chosen to tell his receptionist - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation. And just when it seems that things can't go more awry, a former colleague produces a relic from the past - a graphic memoir, which tells of family secrets long buried and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks.

From the dazzling pen of Maria Semple, author of best-selling Where'd You Go, Bernadette, comes a hilarious and life-affirming story about a woman who wakes up determined to be her best self.

Members Reviews:

mediocre

At time I had to stop due to fast continuos voice being irritating to ears

preferred her previous book

Is there anything you would change about this book?

so light hearted funny and very true moments... but i generally preferred semple's first book. this drags on a little...

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Title: Coming to Terms

Author: KA Moll

Narrator: Emily Beresford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-16

Publisher: Triplicity Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Coming to Terms is a love story - and so much more. It's a story of the impact of sexual abuse and addiction. It's a story of the hunt for a serial rapist turned murderer. Mainly though, it's a story of Sawyer's journey to forgive - another and herself.

Sawyer James is a cop. It's who she is and all she ever wanted to be. The job is all she has. Sawyer's alone, not necessarily because she wants to be, but because horrors in her past have left her drifting in seething waters. To move forward into a fulfilling relationship, Sawyer must come to terms.

Sage Carson is a clinical social worker. She's divorced and alone. Alone is definitely preferable to being married. At almost 40, she comes to realize that her marital problems weren't due to a lack of sexual desire, but rather, her lack of sexual desire for a man. Sage's attraction to Sawyer is an awakening. To move forward, to not spend her life alone, Sage must come to terms - with her own sexuality and with Sawyer.

In their struggle - to love - to forgive - to survive - Sage and Sawyer risk everything.

But is everything enough?

Members Reviews:

Definite page turner

Would you listen to Coming to Terms again? Why?

Lots of details.

What did you like best about this story?

Fast paced, and talked about real issues.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

Great book, it is a welcome addition to my library.

Spoiler Alert

This was my first book by KA Moll. It was a great story. I enjoyed it because both characters got together early on in the book and embarked on this journey...together! Didn't have to go through break ups and making up, but, rather enjoyed how they overcome the obstacles that stood in their way. I loved how both characters 'changed their stories'

And I think the narrator did a great job of relating the story. So, worth listening to!

i liked the story line.

there is a point at around chapter 23or 24 where the story could have ended but kept going. its after that part the story becomes pretty difficult to listen to. as in the details of trauma. pretty heavy stuff. i did keep coming back to listen to the rest of the audio book. i would recommend it. i just wouldn't listen to it on a cross country trip.

Pacing issues

This book has some significant pacing issues. There were numerous times when I felt like the action was happening off camera, so to speak, and the parts we actually get in detail have odd time gaps. Overall I think this could have been at least twice as long if some of the details, the things I felt were being condensed and skipped, were a little more fleshed out. That said, there were also some bits that might've been unnecessary and could be condensed or cut entirely.

The narration was good. I only remember one jarring moment when the narrator said parameter when context dictated that it should have been perimeter. I don't know if this was actually an error in the writing or just a quirk of the narrator's speech.

The writing, pacing issues aside, wasn't bad. I think this author just needs a good editor.

The chemistry between the two main characters was believable, although I did feel that their relationship was rather accelerated. Again, pacing issues.

I don't regret my purchase, but I wouldn't put this high on a list of recommendations to others.

Good story

the relationships seemed to form out of miss air.