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Title: Hot Milk

Author: Deborah Levy

Narrator: Romola Garai

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 73 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim?"

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life.

She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant - their very last chance - in the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis. But Dr. Gomez has strange methods that seem to have little to do with physical medicine, and as the treatment progresses, Sofia's mother's illness becomes increasingly baffling. Sofia's role as detective - tracking her mother's symptoms in an attempt to find the secret motivation for her pain - deepens as she discovers her own desires in this transient desert community.

Members Reviews:

Protagonist's journey of self

This book waxes poetic in a way that is lyrical, but sometimes a little too obtuse. If you can stick with it, you'll find adequate reconciliation of the main characters. The pace however, is maddeningly slow in some parts as well as the protagonist's transformation. I found myself wanting to push her through her mental malady much faster than Gomez. You'll love this though, if you're into languid scenes that leave no detail undescribed or underdescribed, and if hyper self-awareness interests you.

Somnambulistic

The book seemed like it had potential, but I had to stop after about 120' into it for fear I would fall asleep at the wheel if I continued to listen. The narration was ponderous, and the story just was not compelling enough to continue listening. If the narrator was trying to embody the voice of a depressed protagonist, she achieved her goal. Perhaps I missed something by not persevering, but there's too many other great books on Audible to listen to.

Superbly narrated.

The story is captivating. Well structured novel with evocative descriptions. So far my favourite Deborah Levi

Dull story, duller narrator

I think the narrator took the title of the book literally, speaking with a tone that threatened to put me to sleep with every sentence. I kept listening because the book had some good reviews and I thought there must be a method behind the madness. Alas, there was not. The narration style did not lend anything to the text, which I also found bleak and dull. Being set in my beloved Spain could not redeem this story for me. None of the characters were remotely likable. Not. One. They were quirky and a bit demented - which normally would sell me - but they were not interesting in the least. I kept hoping the protagonist would do us all a favor and do herself in. Then her mewling mother would have something legit to whine about. Maybe I'll give another of the author's books a go. The writing is not horrible, but this particular book was not my cup of tea at all...

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Title: All That Man Is

Author: David Szalay

Narrator: Sean Barrett, Mark Meadows, Huw Parmenter

Format: Original Recording

Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel - to understand what it means to be alive here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the 21st-century man.

Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts - a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance and devastating pathos.

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Title: Zero K

Author: Don DeLillo

Narrator: Jesper Bllehuus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"Zero K" er Don DeLillos frste roman i ti r og er en mesterlig skildring af livet og kampen mod dden.

Jeffrey Lockharts far, Ross, er mangemilliardr og gift med den yngre kvinde, Artis, som er uhelbredeligt syg. Ross er hovedinvestor i et afsides liggende og hemmeligt kompleks, hvor alvorligt syge mennesker fryses ned i hbet om, at de kan vende tilbage til livet den dag, hvor medicinske fremskridt ville kunne kurere dem. Jeffrey slutter sig til Ross p komplekset for at sige farvel til sin stedmor, inden hun fryses ned, da Ross fortller, at han har i sinde at flge med hende og lade sig fryse ned.

©2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Tanslated by Mich Vraa (P)2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof

Critic Reviews:

Et af DeLillos bedste vrker DeLillo lister en hjerteskrende historie om en sn, der forsger at genskabe forholdet til sin far, ind i en tankevkkende roman.

-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Members Reviews:

Mixed; Not as good as the reviews indicated

The second two-thirds of the book is very thought provoking and explores DeLillo's views on death and dying. The story of the cryogenics facility in the desert seemed trite. Also, found that a high powered financial executive would lose his will to live when his second wife undergoes the procedure and is stored in the facility. Leaves one with the impression that thousands of years from now, those pods with people stored will be found with no idea of what to do with them! So much for immortality!

His best book, so far

DeLillo writes beautifully, never a word out of place. His reflections about life and death are terse, almost apollonian. He controls the emotions of his characters the way he controls his language, that is masterfully. In a society dominated by emotional manipulation, this skill really elevates his writing above that of his contemporaries. This book is a feast for DeLillo's fans, you will find echoes of his previous works, all seamlessly woven into this novel. I must admit that on the first reading i gave him 4 stars, but when i picked up this book again, a year later, when my father was determined to let himself die, i could fully appreciate it. In a social system that worships money above everything else, there is no place for religion, the only narrative that could assuage our fear of death. So how does the financial elite, the 1%, pursue immortality after unleashing death and destruction on a planetary scale? Zero K is the answer, as absurd as any irrational belief.

Latest by DeLillo

Zero K, the latest by an award winning author contrasts the desire to control the ends of our lives with the harsh realities of our modern world. Includes science fiction, literary fiction, and stream of consciousness, spanning several genres all in one novel. While not a long read, it is a deep read.

I Wanted to Like "Zero K," but...

I count Don DeLillo's "White Noise" to be among my favorite books of all time; I've read most (but not all) of Mr. DeLillo's work, so I cracked the spind of "Zero K" with great anticipation. I found the protagonist in too many situations where he simply describes things he's watching - whether projected on screens for him to watch (he never really finds out why) at a very remote and fantastic place where his step-mother and, later, his father go to be frozen and (hopefully) later to be reanimated into a better/different world.

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Title: The Prague Orgy

Subtitle: The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 4

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.

The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the Nathan Zuckerman series. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

Members Reviews:

The Prague Orgy

This book is very entertaining. It seems to give the intellectual reactions of people in an occupied country. There seems to be a sexual interning.

Overpriced for a novella

Got a newer edition than the one pictured

Dialogue alone is worth the price

Look, it's Roth ... the dialogue alone is worth the cost. Fun stuff, as always. The only drawback is you'll only wish it were a much longer rift.

I Didn't Get It

Most of this novella is the manic, nymphomaniacal rant of the character, Olga, she from whom Zuckerman is to retrieve a treasure-trove of short stories lest they be ground under the heel of Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. But I have never been to Czechoslovakia and have, as a reader, no place to stand. Am I to regard the goings on in this fictional Prague as is any way representative of its people ? And if this is all some sort of literary lark, like Candy or Myra Breckinridge, why set up a plot I want to follow to its logical conclusion ? I don't get it. How can I know the dancer from the dance ?

This tail can wag its dog

How will you ever become a good writer if you are such a bad spy?

Nathan Zuckerman has gone through his own personal difficulties as a writer, but now he is taught a lesson about real problems of this world when he meets a Czech exile writer who asks him to help smuggle out manuscripts that he hid in Prague.

It is 1976 and Breshnev is still in full Stalinist glory. Oppression goes along with a dosis of anti- Semitism.

But lest you anticipate a dour tale of politics, Roth bypasses your worries and finds an outrageous tone of satirical scorn. Scorn of the politics and amusement at the intellectuals with their bohemian antics. His tale of friends spying on each other is the funniest treatment of the subject that I remember.

This novella is written in first person narrative as Zuckerman's diary from his Prague adventure. It is written as the epilogue to the trilogy 'Zuckerman Bound'. It is not meant to stand alone, but for most purposes, it does stand alone rather well. It is a tail that doesn't need the dog, it has an own life. Readers of Kundera, Kohout, Hrabal etc will appreciate it as a nice absurd outside view of their world and a contribution to it. It seems America's chief cultural contribution to the defeat of the empire of evil is the f- word.

I don't know Philip Roth well yet. I am so far much impressed by his imaginative wordsmithing, though the semi permanent focus on two main subjects might become tiring.

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Título: El viajero del siglo [The Century Traveler]

Autor: Andres Neuman

Narrador: Raul Gutierrez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 21 hrs and 52 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-15-16

Editor: Audible Studios para Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 10 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

XII Premio Alfaguara de Novela.

El viajero del siglo nos propone un ambicioso experimento literario: oir el siglo XIX con la mirada del XXI. Un diálogo entre la gran novela clásica y las narrativas de vanguardia. Un puente entre la historia y los debates de nuestro presente global: la extranjería, el multiculturalismo y los nacionalismos, la emancipación de la mujer.

"Tocado por la gracia. La literatura del siglo XXI pertenecerá a Neuman y a unos pocos de sus hermanos de sangre." - Roberto Bolaño

Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir.

Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna.

Andrés Neuman despliega un mosaico cultural al servicio de un intenso argumento, pleno de intrigas, humor y personajes emocionantes, con un estilo rompedor que ofrece a estas cuestiones un sorprendente cauce.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

El viento ingresa en todos lados y se va de todos

Excelente novela llena de diálogos profundos e inteligentes.

Un exitoso experimento literario de revivir el modo de vida del siglo XIX con la perspectiva actual.

La narración es muy buena.

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Title: My Name Is Leon

Author: Kit de Waal

Narrator: Lenny Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of The Language of Flowers, a sparkling, big-hearted, pause-resisting debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half brother after they are separated in foster care.

Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, "I'm your brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and three quarters. I am a boy." Jake will play with no one but Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can.

But Leon isn't in control of this world where adults say one thing and mean another, and try as he might he can't protect his little family from everything. When their mother falls victim to her inner demons, strangers suddenly take Jake away; after all, a white baby is easy to adopt while a half-black nine-year-old faces a less certain fate. Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon's own journey - on his brand-new BMX bike - will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen's cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as "The Zebra"; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists.

Told through the perspective of nine-year-old Leon, too innocent to entirely understand what has happened to him and baby Jake but determined to do what he can to make things right, he stubbornly, endearingly struggles his way through a system much larger than he can tackle on his own. My Name Is Leon is a vivid, gorgeous, and uplifting story about the power of love, the unbreakable bond between brothers, and the truth about what, in the end, ultimately makes a family.

Members Reviews:

My Name Is Leon

Very well written and enlightening book. Anyone who works with children should read this. A good read.

Among the Best

This is unputdownable. The story and the narration were superb. Themes of family, racism, growing up eloquently presented.

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Title: The Sunday Only Christian

Subtitle: Still Divas

Author: E.N. Joy

Narrator: Tyra Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: End of the Rainbow Projects

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

What kind of woman wants a man so badly that she'd be willing to lie to get him? What if that lie includes denying the fact that she has a child? Deborah Lewis is that woman. The suave, debonair Lynox Chase is the man Deborah wants. He's the man Deborah has wanted for years, almost had, but decided to give her ex a try, leaving Lynox hanging. With her ex no longer in the picture, Deborah is willing to eat crow and go claim Lynox. She can't help but worry if he will be forgiving and take her back, but figures after two years, he's had time to get over it.

The chase turns into more of a marathon for Deborah. Just when she thinks she's near the finish line, she learns that a woman with kids is a turn-off for Lynox. She finds this out before ever getting the chance to tell Lynox that she had a child by her ex. Can Deborah turn off being a mother just long enough to get Lynox to fall in love with her again?

Members Reviews:

Awesome story

I truly enjoyed the storyline of this book, a woman's struggle with issues of the past that would not fully are her to move forward in her life. God knows how to get our attention and lead and guide us if we allow him to; and then how to heal us from all of our past hurts, God is truly Awesome and so is this book Sunday only Christian there ate so many people in this world who profess to be Christian but their actions prove otherwise. Again I say awesome storyline, I had not listened to a book in years and I truly enjoyed listening to the one. thanks.

Loved it

Both the author and narrator did a wonderful job. The storyline covered a multitude of issues faced by Christians and just people in general. It also covered the negative perceptions sometimes associated with obtaining help from a mental health professional.

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Title: The Anatomy Lesson

Subtitle: The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 3

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

At 40, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.

The third volume in the Nathan Zuckerman series, The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction - as well as some of the fiercest.

Members Reviews:

Pain is like a baby crying

Pain is like a baby crying. What it wants it can't name.

Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson

The Anatomy Lesson is book # 3 in the Zuckerman Bound trilogy. The first two being The Ghost Writer and Zuckerman Unbound. The Prague Orgy is also included often, as it is the epilogue (thus turning the trilogy into a tetralogy.

Anyway, like all of the Zuckerman novels, Roth is brutal in his introspection. Zuckerman has bottled up his anger at his moralist critics and mental anguish at the death of his parents to the extent that he actually suffers physically and is unable to write. This creative castration of Zuckerman serves to drive the narrative (as much as this type of novel has a driven narrative). Mostly, it deals with conversations with friends and doctors, physical relationships with female caregivers, and large doses of philosophical tangents on pain, pleasure, defense of creativity, consciousness, kin, death, doubt, etc.

One of my favorite sections of the book was Zuckerman riffing on the inside of his mouth:

"When he wasn't sucking liquid pulp or sleeping, he went exploring his mouth with his tongue. Nothing existed but the inside of his mouth. He made all sorts of discoveries in there. Your mouth is who you are. You can't get very much closer to what you think of yourself. The next stop up is the brain. No wonder fellatio has achieved such renown. Your tongue lives in your mouth and your tongue is you. He sent his tongue everywhere to see what he was doing beyond the mental arch bars and elastic bands. Across the raw vaulted dome of the palate, down to the tender cavernous sockets of the missing teeth, and then the plunge below the gum line. That is where they'd opened him up and wired him together. For the tongue it was like the journey up the river in "Heart of Darkness". The mysterious stillness, the miles of silence, the tongue creeping conradianly on toward Kurtz. I am the Marlowe of my mouth."

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Title: Chronicle of a Last Summer

Subtitle: A Novel of Egypt

Author: Yasmine El Rashidi

Narrator: Yasmine El Rashidi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel.

Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too - why, or to where, no one will say.

We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: as a six-year-old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can't ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker preoccupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life.

At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.

Critic Reviews:

"A remarkably clear, generous, and elegant reading of metropolitan life in Cairo. Yasmine El Rashidi has an extraordinary eye for detail: on the streets of Cairo, at school, at home, in the realm of politics, she captures everything and in the process gives one of the most uncannily clairvoyant and astute portrayals of today's Egypt. The streets are exceptionally dirty, life can be stultifying, cruel, and unsafe, the buildings couldn't be uglier, and the secret police lies in wait just about everywhere. Rashidi has always been unsparing in her frequent bulletins about the Arab Spring and its aftermath in The New York Review of Books. Here she is no less penetrating, though this also happens to be a moving and lyrical account of a young woman's maturation from early girlhood, through adolescence, and adulthood." (André Aciman, author of Harvard Square)

"Yasmine El Rashidi's debut is politically minded, but with a beating heart at its core - a beautiful alchemy between an achingly human coming-of-age story and a political examination of a country with a deep, nuanced history." (ELLE)

"A moving and memorable portrait of a girl growing up under a repressive regime, struggling with its imposed silences, and finding her voice. In clear and elegant prose, Chronicle of a Last Summer probes the space in which the personal and the political meet and, at times, collide." (Laila Lalami, author of The Moor's Account)

Members Reviews:

A moving portrait of deep history

It may be hard for some to see this as a novel of the Egyptian uprising of 2011, but in one way it is. El Rashidi paints the picture of a household at three moments in modern Egyptian history -- 1984, 1998, 2014 -- and shows that for all the revolutions and changes that have happened in that country during those decades, very little is moved.

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Title: To the Islands

Author: Randolph Stow

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilisation and the unpeopled sea.

Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia's northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the soul country of the desert, the old man searches for the islands of the Aboriginal dead, reflecting on past transgressions and on his life's work.

A Lear-like tale of madness and destruction, published when Randolph Stow was only 22, To the Islands is compelling and wise - a poetic masterpiece.

Members Reviews:

Anglican Aboriginal Mission

A deep psychological book which we are studying in our book club. An amazing product for such a young author to have produced. He certainly experienced something amazing and was very aware back in those days when I myself was growing up and living in WA but preoccupied with myself.