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Title: Where I Belong

Author: Alan Doyle

Narrator: Alan Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-15

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 69 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a lyrical and captivating musical memoir about growing up in the tiny fishing village of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, and then taking to the world stage.

Singer-songwriter and front man of the great Canadian band Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle is also a lyrical storyteller and a creative force. In Where I Belong, Alan paints a vivid, raucous, and heartwarming portrait of a curious young lad born into the small coastal fishing community of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, and destined to become a renowned musician who carried the musical tradition of generations before him and brought his signature sound to the world. He tells of a childhood surrounded by larger-than-life characters who made an indelible impression on his music and work; of his first job on the wharf, cutting out cod tongues for fishermen; of growing up in a family of five in a two-bedroom house with a beef-bucket as a toilet, yet lacking nothing; of learning at his father's knee how to sing the story of a song and learning from his mother how to simply "be good"; and, finally, of how everything he ever learned as a kid prepared him for that pivotal moment when he became part of Great Big Sea and sailed away on what would be the greatest musical adventure of his life.

Filled with the lore and traditions of the East Coast and told in a voice that is at once captivating and refreshingly candid, this is a narrative journey about small-town life, curiosity, and creative fulfillment and, finally, about leaving everything you know behind only to learn that no matter where you go, home will always be with you.

Members Reviews:

The book was good but the audible version was fantastic!

A wonderful biography, made even better when read by the author. CBC needs to make a series of these wonderful poignant moments of the Author's childhood. Thank you Alan for sharing!

Entertaining

This book captivated me from the first chapter. He is such a great story teller. This book has humor, intrigue , compassion, family, adventure and so much more. I would highly recommend this book to anyone especially if you are a Great Big Sea fan .

Alan Doyle Belongs in Our Hearts

Where does Where I Belong rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Where I Belong is my favorite audiobook.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Where I Belong?

The scene that Alan described and played the characters in where the old fisherman has a hook in his hand. It felt like Alan was sitting across the table telling me the story over a cuppa.

Which character as performed by Alan Doyle was your favorite?

Frank the fisherman and The Bottler.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Local Boy Does Good

Any additional comments?

Alan is an amazing storyteller. He is never dull.

inspirational for any aspiring musician.

Doyle's personality shines through in this biography. It is a feel-good romp through the harbors of Newfoundland. Leaving you with a smile on your face and a hankering for some good Tunes!

Fan of his music ,now of his book & narration

This sixth generation Texan finds the dissimilarities as well as the strange commonalities between Doyle's "country" and my own fascinating.

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Title: The Outsider

Subtitle: My Life in Intrigue

Author: Frederick Forsyth

Narrator: Robert Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-15

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 85 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own.

For more than 40 years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched.

But what most people don't know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life.

He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of 19, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent - well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that's just for starters.

It is a memoir like no other - and a book of pure delight.

Members Reviews:

"Have you been there?" Indeed he has.

As an avid reader of many of Frederick Forsyth's book, listening to (he +upside helps one understand that his renowned research ability is explained by his having "been there". The Outsider is brilliant because although it is a bit of an autobiography it explains his books and is brilliantly read.

Fantastic read

Amazing story telling. FF has had an incredible life and you can understand why his novels are so 'real'....also, perfect narration.

Extraordinary life and storytelling

What made the experience of listening to The Outsider the most enjoyable?

For me, this was the best Forsyth book yet. The storytelling is great, narrator did an excellent job modulating voice tone and pace with the stories. What a remarkable life. No wonder he is able to come up with the "novels" he has written.

What did you like best about this story?

Seeing how the early experiences of determination and willingness to do what it takes to achieve things paid off so well in so many ways. The book was also very well edited, with everything in it contributing to the overall life story. It is told in a series of many adventures/anecdotes. Some brief, some lengthy, but they are all pieces of what makes up this man and his life.

What does Robert Powell bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I actually did start with the printed version from my local library to see if I wanted to purchase the audiobook. It was good enough that I knew I needed to hear it all to really appreciate it. This book really seems well written for the ear, and Powell did a great job of keeping it alive and moving along. One could easily imagine Powell as Forsyth experiencing all these things.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not really any extreme reaction per se, but I did really enjoy finding out a great deal more about the whole Biafra situation. I was in my teens when this was happening, and only remember it from the horrific images of starving children.

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Title: Four Seasons in Rome

Subtitle: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Author: Anthony Doerr

Narrator: Anthony Doerr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 177 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Anthony Doerr has received many awards - from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins.

Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats - the chroniclers of Rome who came before him - and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.

This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft - the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.

Members Reviews:

Oh my , don't miss this one

For all of us who love Anthony Doerr's writing and insights, this is a very satisfying book. Not only do we get the treat again of reading his beautifully descriptive prose but it is a personal journey which is very endearing. He is learning to be a Dad, a husband when he is a Dad, all the while being in Rome where he and his wife are constantly delighted by the culture, food and passions of the Italians. I have listened to this twice and probably won't stop there.

OK

Lots of talk about the first year with twins ... and then Rome. More the content of a family letter home rather than a travel experience.

Four seasons in Rome was fabulous!

I love how the author described everything he was very good at making me picture where he is and how he felt when going through the rough times and couldn't picture myself in his place going through the tasks he had to

There was nothing I did not like he's a great writer the second book I've read and enjoyn I would recommend this book to anyone that would love to visit Rome but may not be able to and anyone that is into art

Returned

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

There is no original thought in this book. It perpetuates all the stereotypes Europeans have about Americans going anywhere. The book is shallow and redundant. My first return on audible. I have no idea who may enjoy it. Maybe a tourist with first-world problems who thinks that raising twins with a help of a stay-home wife and a nanny is overwhelming? First book I listened to on 1.5x speed. My worst read of the year.

What could Anthony Doerr have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Not publish it.

How could the performance have been better?

It could not.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Four Seasons in Rome?

The entire book

I'm soooo disappointed in this story

I was just in Umbria ...Assisi, Spoleto and drove to Narni ( husband and two daughters).

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Title: Anger Is an Energy

Subtitle: My Life Uncensored

Author: John Lydon

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 111 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last 40 years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen". So incendiary was their impact at the time that in their native England, the Houses of Parliament questioned whether they violated the Traitors and Treasons Act, a crime that carries the death penalty to this day. The Pistols would inspire the formation of numerous other groundbreaking groups, and Lydon would become the unlikely champion of a generation clamoring for change.Following on the heels of the Pistols, Lydon formed Public Image Ltd (PiL), expressing an equally urgent impulse in his character: the constant need to reinvent himself. From their beginnings in 1978, PiL set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive to this day while also recording one of the '80s' most powerful anthems, "Rise". John Lydon remains a captivating and dynamic figure to this day - both as a musician and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, and from-the-hip opinions, as a cultural commentator. In Anger Is an Energy, he looks back on a life full of incident, from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in postwar London to his present status as a vibrant alternative hero.

Critic Reviews:

"A lucid, literate pleasure." (

Kirkus starred review)

Members Reviews:

I Just Can't

Any additional comments?

I think John Lydon's talent is underappreciated in general. I read his first book and was looking forward to this one - but I'm 14 hours into it and I don't know if I can slog through the last four. I just can't take any more of the proclamations of how PiL "changed society" and was "the most influential band in the world." Come on. The book jumps around in time, which doesn't really bother me, but it's often hypocritical or contradictory and short on details of events. I really wanted to love it, but it's just so irritating.

Great Listen!!!!!

What did you love best about Anger Is an Energy?

Lydon is honest and transparent. To get through the plastic "style" and "image" of the music machine and stay true to the heart is a great accomplishment. Very enjoyable listen!!!

What about Derek Perkinss performance did you like?

Thank God he's English

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

ANGER IS AN ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any additional comments?

Keep it up Johnny.

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Title: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Subtitle: From A to B and Back Again

Author: Andy Warhol

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

ThePhilosophy of Andy Warhol, first published in 1975, is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections. The private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, New York, and America. And he talks about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in New York, the explosion of his career in the '60s, and his life among celebrities.

Members Reviews:

Post modern work of art.

This is a great book. An artifact, not unlike his best work. Forthright, funny, lacking in pretense. Simply the man, in his own words.

I was sad that the book had to come to an end

Compelling, entertaining, digestible, and well-written vignettes. I was sad that the book had to come to an end.

Love it!!!

This is by far one of my favorite Andy Warhol books!

fun humorous and brilliant

Andy Warhol was so out there but so crystal clear on so many things. he brings a unique perspective to many aspects of life, but yet is so "obvious" at the same time! this book is just plain fun to read but also brilliant and profound. i recommend it!

Great Read!

One of my favorite books, hands down. It has so much personality!

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Title: The Fellowship

Subtitle: The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Author: Carol Zaleski, Philip Zaleski

Narrator: John Curless

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 259 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.

In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into a breathtaking story in The Lord of the Rings while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. This extraordinary group biography also focuses on Charles Williams, strange acolyte of Romantic love, and Owen Barfield, an esoteric philosopher who became, for a time, Saul Bellow's guru. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized sanity, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the 20th century's darkest years - and did so.

Members Reviews:

If You Love Literature...

It seems that practically everyone loves either Narnia or Middle Earth these days. But what this book does is look at not only the lives and careers of their famous creators (C.S.Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien respectively) but also looks at the careers of two other members of the famed literary society, the Inklings, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield. It gave me so much pleasure to learn about how these men (and wow, is this a male dominated book) came together to smoke, drink, and talk. The rich, heady pleasure of creation is very present in this book. Lewis and Tolkien, unsurprisingly, dominate this book as they doubtless did the society itself. Still, the Zaleskis don't just give token notice of the others but try to be proportional in their coverage. Tolkien and Lewis rate much more coverage simply because they are much more influential.

It did make me wistful as I listened to this, to think of the world that we have lost. I think a core message of the lives of all of the Inklings was not only the importance of humans as social animals but also humans as creative ones as well. All of the Inklings spent their lives writing, critiquing, and revising their work. Indeed, the spirit of revision in response to the honest criticism that they offered one another is the strongest message of this book. Also, the overwhelming idea of Christianity as an intellectual impetus for these giants is not as much of the public discourse as it merits. Christianity and the spiritual lives of the Inklings is huge and is well and thoroughly covered in this book. This is a fascinating look at a group of fascinating men (too bad Dorothy L. Sayers didn't get more respect from these men because she was such a fine writer).

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Title: Fat Girl Walking

Subtitle: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It

Author: Brittany Gibbons

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-15

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 540 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Dear person considering Fat Girl Walking,

First of all, thanks for reading about my first audiobook. I hope you buy it - and not just because each purchase gets me one step closer to buying the leather pants of my dreams.

I hope you buy Fat Girl Walking because I want to start a conversation. Or continue a conversation, one I inadvertently started a while ago when I took my clothes off on a stage in front of 700 people. A lot of people thought I was awesome for doing that. A lot of others thought a size 18 woman had absolutely no business showing off her body. Unfortunately for them, I've made it my personal mission to destroy the ridiculous myth that every woman who is overweight hates her body and herself. I, Brittany Gibbons, and the Curvy Girls I speak to every day on the Internet, beg to differ. We love our bodies. We love fashion. We are in loving relationships, having lots of sex. We aren't just a fetish, we're normal women. Sure, sometimes we doubt ourselves, we're not robots, but not anymore than EVERY OTHER WOMAN ON THE PLANET. See, Fat Girls aren't freaks of nature. We're just like you. Maybe we are you.

Fat Girl Walking is a collection of stories from my life, my thoughts about the issues that I have faced as a woman, wife, mom, daughter, daughter-in-law, and Internet personality in regards to my weight. I have tried to be as honest as I possibly could - apologies in advance to my husband and parents, but hopefully any discomfort you feel is quickly replaced by laughter. The insecure texts to my husband and summer camp hijinks are hilarious if I do say so myself. And I also ask some tough questions, things like "What if my husband weighs less than I do?" and "Is my body hate ruining my daughter's life?"

Listen to Fat Girl Walking and let's start having these conversations. No pressure, but we may just save all of womankind.

Love,

Brittany

Members Reviews:

One Woman's Body; One Woman's Story

This book is a must read for any person on their journey to loving their own body. Though it's Brittany's personal story there are many relatable pieces. I appreciate pioneers in the whole body acceptance movement. Brittany admits that there is still work for herself and the world, but we've come a long way.

fucking amazing

Brittany made me gasp with horror, cry with sympathy, and laugh out loud because I could so relate to it all. if you have ever been fat, had issues with food, struggled with depression and anxiety, been a mom, or just in general been alive and are not a super model..... it's a must read.

unexpected inspiration

Having never heard of Brittany Gibson prior to purchasing this book, I didn't know what to expect when plunging into this gem. After the first chapter I was in love. She is absolutely hilarious and very inspiring. It's comforting to hear a story of someone else who has had a "real" life, Not only dealing with body image issues but also mental illness and family issues , poverty, and a strange sense of humor. I want to be best friends with Brittany Gibson!

For the plus size girl and the girl who hates herself

I loved this book.

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Title: In Montmartre

Subtitle: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

Author: Sue Roe

Narrator: Emma Bering

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-15

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 106 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century.

In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso, eager for fame and fortune, first makes his way up the hillside of Paris' famous windmill-topped district. Over the next decade, among the studios, salons, cafés, dance halls, and galleries of Montmartre, the young Spaniard joins the likes of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Gertrude Stein, and many more in revolutionizing artistic expression.

Sue Roe has blended exceptional scholarship with graceful prose to write this remarkable group portrait of the men and women who profoundly changed the arts of painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature, and fashion. She describes the origins of movements like fauvism, cubism, and futurism and reconstructs the stories behind immortal paintings by Picasso and Matisse. Relating the colorful lives and complicated relationships of this dramatic bohemian scene, Roe illuminates the excitement of the moment when these bold experiments in artistic representation and performance began to take shape.

A thrilling account, In Montmartre captures an extraordinary group on the cusp of fame and immortality. Through their stories, Roe brings to life one of the key moments in the history of art.

Members Reviews:

Excellent

Loved it. Well written wit endless details about each of the artists featured in the book and remarkable description of the era in which those artists began their work.

Can't listen to this.

I really wanted to listen to this book but I find the narrator extremely annoying.

Sorry I didn't return it. Tree book for this one.

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Title: It's What I Do

Subtitle: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Author: Lynsey Addario

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 894 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

MacArthur Genius Grant winner Lynsey Addario's relentless pursuit of complex truths drive this heart-pounding and inspirational memoir of a photographer's life.

Lynsey Addario is just finding her way as a young photographer when the events of September 11, 2001, change the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she will often find herself making--not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.

Addario finds in photography a way to travel with a purpose, and It's What I Do is the story of that singular calling--how it shapes and drives her life and how it changes the lives of others. She captures virtually every major theater of war of the twenty-first century and from it creates a historical document of truth on the international conflicts that have made and remade our world. She photographs the Afghan people before and after Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, and the burned villages and the countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting inside story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war.

As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys' club of a profession. Rather than choose between her personal life and profession, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother she gains an even more intensely personal understanding of the fragility of life.

Watching uprisings unfold and people fight to the death for their freedom, Addario understands she is documenting not only news but also the fate of society.

It's What I Do is more than just a snapshot of life on the front lines--it is witness to the human cost of war.

Members Reviews:

A thrill ride from the beginning until the end!

What did you like best about this story?

I felt like I was right there with her, I was so caught up in the book that I didn't mind my commute home. I was also listening while running and ended up running much further than planned because I had to hear what was going to happen next. As a photojournalist Lynsey chased the story, and reported what she saw regardless of how she thought things should be. In other words she sought the truth and dug deeper below the surface, and didn't just take pictures portraying her preconceived idea. I doubt many people would do what she did. I kept finding myself thinking "who does this", then I remember that our troops go in to these dangerous places every day. I'm glad that people like Lynsey are there to document their story and to immortalize those who gave their life fighting for freedom.

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

When Lynsey was reunited with her husband after being captured in Libya, I cried. I was so relieved for her!

Any additional comments?

I highly recommend this book.

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Title: Leaving Before the Rains Come

Author: Alexandra Fuller

Narrator: Alexandra Fuller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 234 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

As her marriage collapses, the author of the international best-seller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple, and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation. Casting a fresh eye on her parent's boisterous strengths and debilitating weaknesses, painting a vivid picture of America at the end of decades of false certainty and security, and revealing her Africa, vital and resilient, Leave Before the Rains Come is an astonishment - a memoir of such grace and intelligence, wit, and courage that only Alexandra Fuller could have written it.

Members Reviews:

Depressing

After the first couple of chapters, the remainder of the book is devoted to a marriage falling apart. I would have preferred more about life in Africa.

More, please

Another wonderful memoir by Alexandra Fuller. Absorbing, exotic, amusing, wise and filled with her lush African memories. And this one is read by Fuller herself, with her enchanting voice matching perfectly her accent and the text. This is a not-to-be missed book for those who loved her others, best read after the first two.

Strangely honest

I thought I knew her. Thats what I took away from this read. After each of her books, which I read in chronilogical order, I thought I had a good understanding of who she is. But she has managed to morph with each book with some surprising results. It makes sense when you give it some thought. With each phase of our lives we learn and change with our experiences and maturity but Alexandra Fuller continues to evolve. I can't wait to read about the next adventure/phase of her life. She doesn't disappoint!

unlike some this Author is a good narrator

Made me laugh, the last quarter was gripping...I must listen to the first half again, needs some deeper thinking. The 3 books of Ms. Fullers memoirs were great binge listening. Three different perspectives important ly with different narrators weaving the story into a whole, I enjoyed all three equally. Made me content in my black and white, made me forgive my steps over to the colorful side. I wonder if it might be worth another listen in the future!

Another first person masterpiece!

Alexandra Fuller pours her heart into each book about her real life family and helps us experience the humor and reality of her family. But she managers to do this without belittling any of them. She speaks the truth in a way that makes you the reader feel that it is your family too. In this book she examines her marriage and her relocating to America that is honest, and yet respectful of the relationship. She is wonderful as a narrator. You feel like you are sharing a conversation over tea. I have read all of her books and this one seemed the most heartfelt.