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Titel: Kindheitsmuster

Autor:: Christa Wolf

Erzähler: Christa Wolf

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-12-16

Herausgeber: Der Audio Verlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Schriftstellerin Nelly Jordan reist im Sommer 1971 mit ihrer Familie aus der DDR in ihre mittlerweile polnische Heimatstadt. Für Nelly wird die Reise zur Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Vergangenheit, insbesondere mit ihrer Verehrung Hitlers und ihrer Begeisterung für die nationalsozialistische Ideologie, die ihre Kindheit und Jugend prägte.

Auf drei Zeitebenen beschreibt Christa Wolf schonungslos und berührend zugleich die Zerrissenheit eines Menschen, der miterlebt, wie alles, woran er glaubt, zugrunde geht. Niemand könnte diese autobiografisch inspirierte Geschichte besser vortragen als Christa Wolf, 33 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des Buches.

©2016 Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb (P)2016 DAV

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Not My Kind of book

This book is not the greatest but not the worst either, it's just okay. I brought this book for my German Literature class final project. As I was reading don't get me wrong Wolf is a wonderful but, the book is a little too slow for myself. It's very long and drawn out, which is why I had to quit reading at one point. I could not just get through it.

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Title: Occupied

Author: Joss Sheldon

Narrator: Jack Wynters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Joss Sheldon

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

SOME PEOPLE LIVE UNDER OCCUPATION.SOME PEOPLE OCCUPY THEMSELVES.NO ONE IS FREE.

Step into a world which is both magically fictitious and shockingly real. Walk side-by-side with a refugee, native, occupier and economic migrant. And watch on as the world around you transforms from a halcyon past into a dystopian future.

Inspired by the occupations of Palestine, Kurdistan and Tibet, and by the corporate occupation of the west, Occupied is a haunting glance into a society which is a little too familiar for comfort. It truly is a unique piece of literary fiction

Critic Reviews:

"Darker than George Orwell's 1984" -

AXS

"Candid and disquieting" -

Free Tibet

"Genre-busting" -

Pak Asia Times

Members Reviews:

Intriguing and Fascinating

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The entire content of the book was very thought provoking, and makes the reader question and fall into a unique realm of its plot.

Any additional comments?

"This review copy audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost."

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Title: Owl Song at Dawn

Author: Emma Claire Sweeney

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Whole Story AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Maeve Maloney may be nearing 80, but she keeps Sea View Lodge as shipshape as her parents did during Morecambe's heyday. But now only her employees recognise the heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie.

If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved - a lesson that her twin may have been trying to teach her all along.

Critic Reviews:

"Emma Claire Sweeneys fiction is sensitive and stylish. She writes with courage, honesty and richness that demand to be read." (Sally Cline, award-winning biographer and fiction writer)

Members Reviews:

Helen Lloyd helps a beautiful story come alive

Emma Claire Sweeney's debut novel is a family saga, well written, with characters you will want to root for. It's everything a great novel should be. I found myself thinking about the characters long after I'd turned the last page. I alternated reading this book on Kindle and listening to it on Audible. The Helen Lloyd narration is so well done. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Title: The Crime Writer

Author: Jill Dawson

Narrator: Regina Regan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1964 the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive, too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London.

Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat.

After the arrival of Ginny, an enigmatic young journalist bent on interviewing her, events take a catastrophic turn. Except, as always in Highsmith's troubled life, matters are not quite as they first appear....

Members Reviews:

Superb narration and excellent, unguessable plot

An intriguing insight into a mind wired a little differently from the norm. Has made me want to read more of Jill Dawson AND Patricia Highsmith.

Intriguing as one of Highsmith's own novels.

I am not usually a fan of fictionalised versions of real people...I had a tendency to break off to check if x or y event actually happened. This don't happen with this book because I found myself so engrossed in the world of Dawson's 'Pat' that the reality became irrelevant. I think that Highsmith might have enjoyed the book...while it's no 'Talented Mr. Ripley' (what is?)- the story is effortlessly suspenseful and has some intriguing things to say about the imagination and the way it impacts on our experience of the world. It is in no way as pretentious as that makes it sound!

An intriguing read.

This book was read brilliantly and I loved the concept of the story. I did not know that the main character Patricia and her friend Ronnie were actually real people, indeed well known writers! I feel more educated now. I have been able to enjoy the book twice as a result. The knowing gives the book greater weight. The snails were a delightful touch.

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Title: Becoming

Author: Catherine Lanigan

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Fleeing from an abusive husband with her young son, Susan Kidd sets out to leave the past behind, forge a new identity for herself, and take control of her own future.

Members Reviews:

Shouldn't be labled as romance; but still a powerful story

From the back cover:

What do you do when your husband hits you?...When your father only thinks of you as Daddy's good girl?...When your little son looks at you with tears in his eyes and asks you why you're taking him away from home in the middle of the night? If you're Susan Kidd, you forge a new identity for yourself and leave the past behind.

Like countless women who have made the wrong choices, loved the wrong men, let other people direct their lives, Susan decided to take control of her future. Bright, determined and hardworking, she had the courage to believe she could succeed. This is her story--it is your story--for in one way or another, we are all...Becoming.

And my review:

I was a little wary of buying this book, since I hadn't liked ADMIT DESIRE by the same author. But since it was only 50 cents, I decided to take the chance. I'm glad that I did.

This is the story of a battered wife learning to start over. And while the book is labeled "contemporary romance", the romance aspect of it is only a very small portion of the book. In fact, the reader doesn't even get to meet the hero until page 250! For a 400 page book, that's not very much time for a romance.

And that's where the book lost one star. The romance felt very tacked on at the end. The character of the hero was only very briefly sketched. I never really felt like I knew him. Rather than showing us their relationship, the author decided to just tell us that they are in love, a mere five pages after they meet. Sorry, but I don't find it realistic just because you say it's so! I like to really see and feel the love between the two characters. I didn't here. I suspect that the author was working under a page restriction, and couldn't develop the romance the way she might have liked to. Once I got past my "as if they could be in love so quickly without even knowing each other at all" attitude, the struggles of the heroine to learn to trust again were well portrayed.

The rest of this book was very well done. The character of the heroine was well drawn. Her motivations and fears and the way her past had shaped her was shown through flashbacks and introspection by the heroine. I also liked that the author delved into the relationship of the heroine's parents, showing how their attitudes had shaped the heroine, and bringing healing to their relationship (with each other and with their daughter) as well.

The author also did a good job of showing what had shaped the abusive husband. Not that she ever excused his actions, but she showed how violence can be passed down from parent to child without ever being preachy about it. The husband was more than just a caricature; he was a person as well. It made the heroine's struggle to be free of him while still caring for him feel more real to me.

One minor complaint I had was that I felt that the heroine's son was too good to be true. This kid never complained, never got scared, never threw a tantrum...for an eight-year-old dragged away from everything he's ever known...well, I just found it a little hard to believe.

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Title: Clamour of Crows

Author: Ray Meritt

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Clamour of Crows is a brilliantly crafted modern morality play that charts the life and curious death of the legendary entrepreneur Ben Baum, replete with mayhem, mystery, and perhaps murder.

The novel's reluctant protagonist, Jonathan Tucker, finds himself drawn into a maze of deception, death, and betrayal. Having lost the only things that matter, he is induced by his mentor to reengage with his former Wall Street law firm. Tuck, as he is called, has to develop skills he never possessed just to stay even with an unknown adversary in the world of big law, bigger business, and international chicanery.

Ingeniously told, this saga blends elements of classic literature with nonstop action across two continents, taking you to the edge of your emotions and reeling you back, without ever losing its sense of humor and style. Peppering his story with allusions to the world's most adored children's classics, the author explores the height of greatness and the depth of evil. In Clamour of Crows, Ray Merritt has created a witch's cauldron of intrigue, betrayal, and unnecessary deaths as he explores the dark side of human nature and the fundamental essence of family and forgiveness.

Members Reviews:

Clamour of Crows is a must read!

Clamour of Crows is an excellent book. It caught and describes parts of society in an intriguing and insightful way. I am planning on giving this book as a gift the holidays this year. Everyone who has read it to whom I have talked with about it enjoys it. As a photographer I found the authors words very visually appealing and socially interesting.

A great new entry into the mystery game !

I'm a big fan of the mystery genre and I loved this new entry to the field. A definite page turner, I hope author Merritt continues the series so we can find out what adventures Tuck and his friends get into to.

Eruditely Romantic

You can absolutely tell that Ray Merritt has a passion for words (and dogs!) He has created a phraseology truly his own & I enjoyed the book immensely...especially the ending!

What a fun read. A sophisticated suspense with lots of surprises

What a fun read. A sophisticated suspense with lots of surprises... even to the very end.

Five Stars

Great read. Highly recommend to lovers of legal mysteries.

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Title: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

Author: John Gregory Brown

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A tragicomic tour de force about one man's redemption through love and art.

"You have lost everything, yes?"

Everything? Henry thought; he considered the word. Had he lost everything?

Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy. As a result Henry winds up stranded at the ramshackle motel just outside the small town of Marimore, and it's there that he is pulled into the lives of those around him: Latangi, the motel's recently widowed proprietor, who seems to have a plan for Henry; Marge, a local secretary who marshals the collective energy of her women's church group; and the family of an old man, a prisoner who dies in a desperate effort to provide for his infirm wife.

For his previous novels, John Gregory Brown has been lauded for his "compassionate vision of human destiny" as well as his "melodic, haunting, and rhythmic prose". With A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, he assumes his place in the tradition of such masterful storytellers as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, offering to listeners a tragicomic tour de force about the power of art and compassion and one man's search for faith, love, and redemption.

Critic Reviews:

"John Gregory Brown is a writer I've long admired, and this new novel is his best book yet. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a marvelous depiction of one man's stumbling journey from despair toward a hard-won redemption." (Ron Rash)

"A soulful musing on art, love and sanity, and on art's power to redeem. A beautiful, haunting novel." (Tom Franklin, best-selling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter)

"Populated by likable and believable characters, an affectionate, understated approach to questions of sanity, survival, and redemption." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Generosity and kindness saves the protagonist

A beautiful rendition of the ongoing traumas of childhood

In addition to the well crafted characters, musical references will thrill anyone who has beenoved NY sound

The narration is on pitch and the accents are perfect

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Title: The Mandibles

Subtitle: A Family, 2029-2047

Author: Lionel Shriver

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

From Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin, comes a striking new novel about family, money, and global economic crisis.

The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the world's governments, the dollar loses all its value. The American president declares that the States will default on all its loans; prices skyrocket, currency becomes essentially worthless, and we watch one family struggle to survive through it all.

The Mandibles can count on their inheritance no longer, and each member must come to terms with this in their own way - from the elegant expat author Nollie, in her middle age, returning to the US from Paris after many years abroad; to her precocious teenage nephew, Willing, who is the only one to actually understand the crisis; to the brilliant Georgetown economics professor Lowell, who watches his whole vision of the world disintegrate before his eyes.

As ever, in her new novel Shriver draws larger than life characters who illuminate this complicated, ever-changing world. One of our sharpest observers of human nature, Shriver challenges us to think long and hard about the society we live in and what, ultimately, we hold most dear.

Members Reviews:

The Buck Stops

Lionel Shriver's new novel, "The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047" is captivating, and at the same time a humorous and chilling work of speculative fiction. Early on, one of Shiver's characters, in referencing the works: "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "1984", says: "Plots set in the future are about what we fear in the present. They're not about the future at all." Since this particular character turns out to be extremely wrong about a lot of things, I take this as a wink to the reader that Shriver believes that many of her dire predictions about the economic future of the US may indeed become true. We'll see!

"The Mandibles" begins in 2029 (100 years since the "crash" of 1929). In what is later called "The Great Renunciation", the president (who is a "Lat": of Latin descent), calls for the renunciation all US debt and defaults on all foreign debt. Invoking the International Emergency Powers Act of 1977 (it's real), he calls for all gold to be confiscated. Blame is placed on nebulous "hostile foreign" entities who have tried to replace the dollar with the "bancor". The President, in addition to recalling all gold (including jewelry and dental work) from every citizen, has ordered the military to do a door-to-door search for hoarded gold and for those responsible to be fined and imprisoned. In addition, the US has "reset" all US Treasury bonds to zero and inflation has driven the price of a (scarce) head of cabbage up to $30. Some folks are happy that the "uber-rich" or the 1%-ers are falling like dominoes seeing it as finally a way to erase the vast economic disparities. The US starts printing (now almost worthless) money by the truckload, though with the toilet paper scarcity - well, you can imagine what happens.

The novel revolves around the eponymous Mandible family, founded by wealthy grandfather Douglas Mandible aka "Grand Man".

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Title: She Poured Out Her Heart

Author: Jean Thompson

Narrator: Madeleine Lambert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson traces the complicated friendship of two very different women who meet in college. In the tradition of her best-selling novel The Year We Left Home, Thompson has crafted a novel of remarkable psychological suspense, cast with the kinds of deeply realized characters that have been heralded as "emotionally fluid" and "deeply familiar".

The night that Jane and Bonnie meet on a college campus sets them on paths forever entwined. Bonnie, the wild and experimental one, always up for anything, has spent the past two decades bouncing between ill-fated relationships while Jane's seemingly perfect life, perfect husband, and perfect children appear to have materialized out of a fantasy. But these appearances contradict the quiet, inescapable doubt Jane feels about her life. One night, in the middle of her own Christmas party, she steps outside into the snow, removes her clothing and shoes, and lies down in the backyard. When she is discovered, nothing is the same for anyone. As Jane begins to have visions and retreat into a private inner world, Bonnie finds herself drawn inevitably into an affair with Jane's husband.

Thompson's mastery of complex emotion begets a novel of desire and the nature of love - who we love, how we're loved, and, most important, that we reach urgently and always for a higher love regardless of our circumstances. She Poured Out Her Heart is a finely wrought, haunting story of female friendship, deception, and the distance in between.

Members Reviews:

Struggled to finish

It started out strong and interesting. But towards the middle lost steam. Wish it would have gotten more into her episodes while in them and as to why. Left me needing more substance

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Title: Muzica unei viei

Author: Andrei Makine

Narrator: Victor Rebengiuc

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"Numai rusii au aceasta dimensiune a spatiului infinit, a tinutului astuia întins acoperit de zapada, de zapezile astea care cad mereu, care astupa si bune, si rele, si vieti, si moarte, si sânge, si dragoste, si piane, si compozitii, si tot. Am citit cu mare placere, cu o profunda bucurie Muzica unei vieti. O muzica pe care am auzit-o si eu, pe care multi dintre noi au trait-o. Muzica unei vieti pe care înca nu am uitat-o, pe care înca ne-o amintim si care, într-un fel, înca ne mai determina destinul, existenta. Nuvela aceasta este absolut cutremuratoare si o recomand din tot sufletul tuturor celor care vor sa ia cunostinta de o opera deosebita."

Victor Rebengiuc

Please note: This audiobook is in Romanian.

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