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Title: The Chemistry of Tears

Author: Peter Carey

Narrator: Susan Lyons, Jefferson Mays

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When Catherine's secret lover dies suddenly, she has nowhere to turn to except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a 19th century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird. When she discovers the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another: who was Henry Brandling, and the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his absent son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in her studio?

The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic.

Members Reviews:

unpleasant

What disappointed you about The Chemistry of Tears?

As ever the Peter Carey's prose is very good but the story is affected, the characters unpleasant. Frankly it is boring.

An interesting tale

Quite an unusual novel, but I guess similar events have happened where a woman who is caught in a long term affair is left devastated when her lover suddenly dies. He didn't have the courage to leave his unhappy marriage but conducted a long term affair with a vulnerable woman in secret. She learns she was selected as young woman because of her youth and beauty by a work colleague to be used as a mistress to his friend who chose to remain married to a nasty woman.

It is interestingly interwoven with the story of the making of an antique clock and the behaviour of various characters and their ambitions. Well worth a read.

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Title: The Two Medicine River

Author: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrator: Michael Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfeet country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land, come a pair of young wanderers, half-breeds born of two worlds, but belonging to neither.

Marie Therese de Paris - driven by the ancestral fires in her spirit - sets out on a vision quest, hoping to save the Blackfeet from their cruel fate. Peter Kipp, bold and ambitious, chooses to follow his father into the American Fur Company, determined to prove himself in the white mans world. Bound by love, but torn by their loyalties, they share a single destiny about to unfold on the Two Medicine River....

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

I like to read books and it was very good shape no tears or rips

Four Stars

a wonderful read,

great reading

Great book.

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Title: Chicken Dreaming Corn

Author: Roy Hoffman

Narrator: Toni Orans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-12

Publisher: Roy Hoffman

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by.

"Daddy," his son asks, "are we Rebels?"

"Today?" muses Morris. "Yes, we are Rebels."

Thus opens a novel set, like many, in a languid Southern town. But, in a rarity for Southern novels, this one centers on a character who mixes Yiddish with his Southern and has for his neighbors small merchants from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.

At turns lyrical, comic, and melancholy, the tale takes inspiration from its title. This Romanian expression with an Alabama twist is symbolic of the strivings of ordinary folks for the realization of their hopes and dreams. Set largely on a few humble blocks yet engaging many parts of the world, this Southern Jewish novel is, ultimately, richly American.

Members Reviews:

Another World

Roy Hoffmanâs novel Chicken Dreaming Corn delivers something we rarely see, a picture of the Jewish experience in the Deep South during the first half of the 20th century. Jewish life in the Deep South remains sparsely explored territory in fiction. Hoffman's effort records the trials and tribulations of Morris Kleinman, a Romanian immigrant, as he struggles to raise his family according to Jewish law in Mobile, Alabama, an environment unfamiliar with his Old World ways. His struggles allow the reader an inside look at what life was like for a Jew living in the South so long ago.

The novel covers a 30 year span, from 1916 through 1945. During this time we follow Morris as he raises his family, establishes his business, and deals with people from both his Romanian past and American present who define his life. Much of the novel's interest derives from Morris's interaction with his neighbors and customers, those who accept him and his family and those who revile him, like the KKK and other anti-Semites. But Morris perseveres; he always believes because he is hardworking and honest the community at large will accept him and his family. His wife, Miriam, remains skeptical: "To them a Jew is a Jew," unsavory, money-hungry, and forever "foreign."

Portraying Morris's life in Mobile Hoffman draws a credible picture of Jewish life in the Deep South. One of the novel's most interesting characters, and one who gives us another insight into what some felt was necessary to survive in this environment, is Donnie McCall. The Jewish McCall reinvents himself as a Southern redneck, and he adopts many of the antagonistic attitudes prevalent at that time towards Jews.

As other reviewers have noted, the novel lacks somewhat in character development and plot consistency. This does not detract from the story it tells of a world we rarely encounter in fiction. The life of a Jew in the South, even today, remains an "other" experience. Hoffman's Chicken Dreaming Corn shines as an example of this experience.

Great Book - Horrible Kindle Version

This is a really well-written and interesting work and I highly recommend it. However, the Kindle version is so poorly produced - an astounding number of reproduction errors - that it seriously detracts from the quality of the work. This version should be avoided at all cost.

Good Read

An engaging story but not overwhelming.

Two Stars

Interesting subject but the writing didn't hold together.

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Titre: L'enquête russe (Les enquêtes de Nicolas Le Floch 10)

Auteur: Jean-François Parot

Narrateur: François d'Aubigny

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-12-12

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

1782 : Le tsarévitch Paul séjourne incognito à Paris. Et la cour de France, soucieuse de se concilier l'héritier de l'empire russe, enjoint Nicolas Le Floch de gagner la confiance du fils de Catherine II. Au même moment, le comte Rovski, ancien favori de la tsarine, exilé à Paris, est assassiné. Quel lien entre ce crime et deux meurtres commis à l'ambassade russe ? Qui massacre les filles galantes des boulevards ? Quel rôle joue l'étrange princesse de Kesseoren, maîtresse dans l'art de l'escroquerie de haut vol ? Une enquête qui mènera Nicolas Le Floch dans les milieux sulfureux du jeu, de la galanterie et de l'espionnage.

Tour à tour chaleureuse et sarcastique, l'élégante interprétation de François d'Aubigny multiplie la puissance évocatrice du texte - et la séduction du commissaire des Lumières.

L'auteur

Diplomate, spécialiste du XVIIIeme siècle,

a inventé un personnage qui, de livre en livre et avec un succès croissant, nous plonge au coeur du Paris des intrigues de cour et de rues sous les règnes de Louis XV et Louis XVI. Sa série est à l'origine du grand feuilleton de France 2.

Le narrateur

Artiste interprète français, on retrouve

au cinéma, au théâtre et à la télévision.

© Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2012

© et (P) Audiolib, 2012

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Title: Martyr

Author: Rory Clements

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-12

Publisher: John Murray

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Drake: Shakespeare is ordered to protect him. With Drake on land fitting out his ships, he is frighteningly vulnerable. If he dies, England will be open to invasion. In a London rife with rumour, Shakespeare must decide which leads to follow, which to ignore. When a high-born young woman is found mutilated and murdered at an illicit printing house, it is political gunpowder - and he has no option but to investigate. But why is Shakespeare shadowed at every turn by the brutal Richard Topcliffe, the blood-drenched priest-hunter who claims intimacy with Queen Elizabeth herself? What is Topcliffe`s interest in a housemaid, whose baby has been stolen? And where do two fugitive Jesuit priests - one happy to die for God, the other to kill for Him - fit into the puzzle? From the splendour and intrigue of the royal court, to the sleek warships of Her Majesty`s Navy and the teeming brothels of Southwark, Shakespeare soon learns that nothing is as it seems.

Members Reviews:

Martyr

A sligtly lighter version of CJ Sansom's Matthew Shardlake drama's. Very enjoyable and well narrated.

Great story

Believable characters so well written with such good dialogue I was immediately engaged. Just about to start second in the series which says it all!

Engrossing!

An enjoyable Tudor 'who-dun-it' with a good deal of very believable historical detail - almost too realistic at times!

Good historical detective story

This is a detective story based in Elizabeth 1 reign based on some historical facts. I Really enjoyed the way the novel and the history mixed together. Not mad about the narrator - not bad but have had better. Overall a really good listen.

Martyr

The voice of the narrator was initially off putting but as I became engrossed with the plot I found him easy to listen too. Although the language suits the times I found it rather vulgar and unnecessary, I feel some may be put off by it.

The book has a good plot, the main character is an easy one to like and on the whole I think the story is a good one.

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Title: Timber Gray

Author: Ronald Kelly

Narrator: Brad Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he cannot banish the hatred that dwells within him: an animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves.

Fifteen years have passed. Timber Gray is known throughout the western territories as a seasoned tracker and hunter: a man who can conquer any threat for the right price, be it grizzly, mountain lion, or, his specialty, wolves. But can Timber tackle his greatest challenge - a pack of 50 wolves led by the legendary Cripplefoot? Such insurmountable odds, combined with an approaching blizzard and a band of renegade bounty hunters, would seem to be certain death to most men. But, to Timber Gray, it is only another reason for staying alive.

Members Reviews:

ruined by reader

What was Brad Smith thinking? I have liked him when interviewed or participating in NPR's wait wait don't tell me or some of his own performances..but he is completely unequipped to read a book. His voice is hesitant and , although unique, is flat , monotonous and almost totally without inflection.

He brings nothing to the story and in fact detracts from the charters and descriptions .

The only reason I gave the number of starts was to be generous to the story.

I love Larry McMurty lonesome dove series for example and this is somewhat reminiscent of those westerns (although a 2 dimensional reflection of those wonderfully written books).

Still, I would have been entertained by the story and main character if I was reading it or if it was read by a more talented actor.

The problem is, a reader must ACT THE PARTS to make a story live. This effort , or lack of it ,was an embarrassing failure since Brad Smith is not an actor and is also a bad reader of anything except perhaps his own writing.

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Title: Lady Lightfingers

Author: Janet Woods

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-11

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Raised in the slums in 1850s London, Celia Laws is a rarity, an educated young woman whose creative skills have attracted notice. But with family to care for, circumstances have driven her to pickpocketing. In Celia's harsh world, it's a small step from picking pockets to prostitution. When a young man offers her a fortune to spend a week with him, she takes the money and runs. But Celia's conscience can't allow her to forget the money she stole, and she is soon brought face-to-face with her past

Members Reviews:

Started out good - petered out

The narrator did an excellent job. She helped keep the story going even when it started to get old. The story started good but about 2/3 of the way through it lost steam. I think the author should have ended it way before she did. I don't know why she dragged it out as long as she did. I was just waiting for it to be over. If I had never listened to it, it would have been no great loss in my life. LOL.

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Title: Prisoners of War

Author: Steve Yarbrough

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning author Steve Yarbrough has garnered widespread critical acclaim for his rich, powerful novels of the South. Kirkus Reviews calls Prisoners of War thoroughly impressive. In 1943, as German prisoners work the plantations of Mississippi delta country, Dan Timms roves the area selling goods for his uncle. Dans partner is L.C., a young black man. In a land where men dream of escape, the true danger for L.C. is the very society surrounding him.

Members Reviews:

About Prisoners of War

I recommend this to anyone. I especially recommend this to the generation that remembers the 40s. Like Yarbrough, we also had German POWs working on our farms (albeit in Kansas). More importantly, though, the probing of race dynamics is deeply sensitive and perceptive. Unfortunately, we can call this work timely--unfortunately because we still insist on damaging our young men in wars and we still suffer from racism. The problems of Mississippi are, regrettably, not isolated to any one locale. On a literary level, the book is just plain great writing. Yarbrough may be our generations best novelist.

Captors are "Prisoners of War" in sobering, cautionary novel

The wreckage of armed conflict litters the landscape of fictional Loring, Mississippi, in Steve Yarbrough's courageous and cautionary, "Prisoners of War." The novel's title is an apt one, and German POW's are not the only people held captive by the ravages of war. Dan Timms, not quite eighteen and chomping at the bit for his own involvement in World War II, possesses an innocence which shields him not only from the pernicious impact the previous world war had on the town but also inhibits his understanding of the subtle, but pervasive corruption, rampant in his community. Timms' struggle for emotional independence stands in bleak contrast to the ubiquitous pessimism and despair elsewhere.

Yarbrough presents several provocative theses about human behavior in "Prisoners," the most interesting of which posits that people have long outlived the moment of their deaths. Many of Yarbrough's characters are examples of the "living dead," wounded souls going through the motions of life until a climactic moment extinguishes them forever. The belligerent racist, Frank Holder, exemplifies this quality. Angry, bewildered and resentful over his enlisted son's untimely death, Holder's need for vengeance against a nameless, unconquerable force, extinguishes whatever limited capabilities he had to function as a decent man.

Dan's father and uncle fall victim to the same disability, but present different symptoms. World War I devoured Jimmy Del Timms, Dan's father. Cynical, uncommunicative and numbed, Dan's father stumbles through post-traumatic stress and suffers a disintegrating family. Jimmy Del's brother, Alvin, has betrayed conscience and community with his actions; aware of his own decadence, Alvin shrugs his shoulders at his own stench and revels in his role as a war profiteer.

Yarbrough presents the debasement of personality in times of extreme stress as a corollary to his central thesis. Even the German POW's, whose presence as seemingly tractable field laborers mollifies the struggling cotton farmers of the area, display a corrosion of the spirit. They secretively and ineptly plan an escape and turn on one of their own when the plot is foiled.

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Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Radio 4 Reading)

Author: Louis De Bernieres

Narrator: Robert Powell

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-11

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Robert Powell reads Louis De Bernières bestselling novel set in the early days of the second world war, and as heard on BBC Radio 4....

Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn't so bad - at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn't long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair - despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches.

Members Reviews:

Chopped to pieces - the patient is dead

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I read the book and loved it to death. This adaptation has instead carved it to death. Great passages from the book have been chopped out, rendering the story incoherent and completely losing the development of the characters. The narrator does a tremendous job on the male voices, but sounds comically amateurish on the female ones.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

A feeling of having been robbed by Audible and their publishing partners.

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Title: Wallis: My War

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Kate Auspitz

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

She was the first person to be named Woman of the Year by Time magazine, and yet Wallis Simpson remains one of the most reviled women in history. The social-climbing divorcee is remembered as a snob and voluptuary who came close to destroying the British monarchy. But could she have been the pawn of Allied statesmen determined to remove a Nazi sympathiser from the throne?

This memoir, found in her former Paris home, is said to have been written in the Duchess' own hand. And although the Duchess is a highly unreliable narrator, Kate Auspitz, an American historian, is a meticulous scholar, supplying pages of endnotes that ground the story firmly in published recollections of the major figures of the time. The plot rests on little-known historical details that make Wallis's role in the events entirely plausible.

Critic Reviews:

"Lorelei King is astonishing. I thought I was listening to my better self when I heard the introduction to Wallis: My War , written in my voice, read in hers." (Kate Auspitz)

Members Reviews:

Fun and interesting, too.

Would you listen to Wallis: My War again? Why?

I might, just to catch any details I missed the first time.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Wallis: My War?

The very end of the book holds an image I won't forget.

Which scene was your favorite?

I really enjoyed the plotting among the afternoon cocktails.

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

No.

Any additional comments?

I have to keep reminding myself that the book is fiction.

Spoken like Wallis Presumably

Always one for a biography, I chose Wallis My War for an insight into the woman that caused the abdication of the king. Written from her point of view was the clever bit. I enjoyed the regular ramblings from the woman's point of view, the details of what was her life in relation to his. I did find the voice very irritating at first that I did not listen to it for a while. However I had another go with the presumption that this is what she probably sounded like. Ir is worth persevering with. This is my first audio book, perhaps I am not quite ready to stop reading the printed versions yet, not sure if I ever will as it was not a very enjoyable experience.

I needed to be in the mood for this

I am still not sure if I have truly given this a fair rating as I think the narrator put me off listening to a good story line. I found it hard to be objective and remove the voice from the story. Apologies but this wasn't for me. Perhaps listen on another day maybe a different outcome.

An unusual perspective on a controversial woman

This is a vivid and engrossing, albeit fictional, account of how the Duchess of Windsor was used as a pawn by the Anglo-Franco-American alliance, first to get a king to abdicate and then to spread disinformation amongst the Axis, via Ribbentrop. Not a book you can stop listening to easily.