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Título: El Perro [The Dog]

Autor: Alberto Vázquez Figueroa

Narrador: Borja Rodríguez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 5 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-13-14

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

En un penal de América Central, un preso político y un perro se observan fascinados el uno por el otro. Cuando el preso se evade tras herir mortalmente al guardián, el animal, condicionado por su amo antes de morir, se lanza en su persecución. Los dos adversarios se enfrentan en una lucha atroz e infatigable, y, a medida que transcurren las semanas, se establece entre ellos una extraña complicidad, hecha de sentimientos tan opuestos como el odio y la autoestima.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Excelente novela corta

Guauu! vaya novela psicológica sobre la relación antagonista entre un perro y un humano.

La narración es buena.

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Title: So Much a Part of You

Author: Polly Dugan

Narrator: Sandy Rustin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two young women who've dated the same man navigate love, destiny, loss, and choice in this powerful debut.

Anna Riley and Anne Cavanaugh have had a lover in common, but it's not until a pivotal moment in one of their lives that their paths unforgettably converge. The linked stories in So Much a Part of You "read like whispered secrets". (Scott Nadelson)

Peter Herring was the center of Anne's universe in college, and now, a few years later, he's become the center of Anna's, and merely a minor player in his ex-girlfriend's world. That is, until Peter and Anna are invited into Anne's parents' home to visit with her dying mother, and he finds himself drawn back into her orbit. Years later, when her own mother is dying, Anna will find herself yearning to reach out to Anne, with whom she had shared such a brief but intimate bond, and find solace in that moment from long ago.

Perspective evolves with time, and so with time, what Peter means to each woman - as lover, as friend, as connection to the past - also evolves. Through exploring Anne's and Anna's ties to Peter and unfolding the narratives of the people who weave meaningfully in and out of their lives, Polly Dugan reveals the power of family secrets, the ripple effects of her characters' emotional choices, and how poignantly their intertwined relationships shape who they are and how they love.

Possessing that rare ability to write the sweep of emotion with tenderness, Polly Dugan invites listeners to witness the moments that define her characters - the moments that come back full circle to comfort or haunt them, or both. So Much a Part of You will break your heart and still have you asking for more.

Members Reviews:

Read this book.

I loved this book. The writing is fantastic. I felt it explored the female perspective in how society relates to women and the continual struggle there is from our childhood to becoming an adult, all while attempting to find our sense of self. The many facets of how women relate to other women and to men is navigated in a direct and relatable manner. It is a book I will read at various points in my life and likely gain a unique interpretation each time.

Fine Example of how Fiction should be Crafted

This is a wonderful series of stories and lives that connect. The author has a gift for weaving the past and the present together and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!

it's a really good book, enjoyable and worth my time

I giving this a 4-STAR rating because I haven't finished reading this book yet. I did grow up in Camden, NJ, which is one of the reasons why I purchased the book. From what I've read so far, it's a really good book, enjoyable and worth my time.

We Are All So Much a Part of Each Other's Lives

This book is a collection of stories where the characters are connected to each other. When I was reading it I was reminded of the phrase " six degrees of separation" that was used to describe how every movie actor was six movies away from being in a movie from Kevin Bacon. Some of the stories feature the main characters and others are just loosely connected to them. But maybe we are all just six persons away from knowing each other.

In the first story we meet John Riley a kid during the depression with a paper route. John Riley is in the 2nd story but then time has passed and he's the father of Anna who has just started riding lessons.

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Title: Fatal Catch

Author: Roxe Anne Peacock

Narrator: Popi Ardissone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-14

Publisher: Roxe Anne Peacock

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1963, and Chief Riley Bennett knocks on Dody Canfield's door informing her that her husband died instantly when his car struck a telephone pole. Not wanting to raise her three children alone, it isn't long before she brings home Frank Billings; and he's moving in. Mama sends 13-year-old Missy to take her little brother, Billie, fishing so she can have some alone time with Uncle Frank. Billie casts his line into the murky river water hooking the big one; granddaddy of all fish. He quickly hands the reel to Missy hoping not to lose his catch. Missy reels in slowly - bubbles begin emerging - releasing an undercurrent of secrets, deadly lies, and terror on the Canfield family.

Members Reviews:

Suspenseful novel, excellently narrated

Where does Fatal Catch rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

This is a good mystery novel, with a lot of gritty realism. It's suspenseful too. The narrator of the story is a 13-year-old girl, very well voiced by the book's voice-actor reader. The girl is Missy, and she and her brother Billie go through a lot that kids should never have to go through. It's a sign of the writer's talent that she manages to show how things looks through the kids' eyes, which is different than than through adults eyes. That's also a sign of the excellence of the voice-actor narration, that she can bring off this kids' world so convincingly. I haven't heard anything from Popi Ardisonne before, but I'm going to be looking for a lot more from her. I'd like to hear her voice-act an adult novel. She's got a wonderful, melodious voice.

Which scene was your favorite?

The climax of the book.

Any additional comments?

When the mother brings home new "uncles", we adults know what's going on. The kids don't have this perspective. The effect of poverty is different on the kids too, than what we would expect it to be looking through adult eyes. What the writer does is hard to do, and she does it well. Be warned though if you're thinking of giving this book to your kids to listen to. There's too much of a danger-to-children element for it to appropriate for younger listeners.

You never know what you might find fishing.

What made the experience of listening to Fatal Catch the most enjoyable?

The way the children lived and looked out for one another while their mother was wrapped up in her own world. There are probably many kids who grow up in a houeshold similar to this one.

Which character as performed by Popi Ardissone was your favorite?

She actually did a good job with the three children and the mother. Franks voice was a little hard to get into.

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

I was able to listen to this book in one sitting while making a 6 hour drive.

Any additional comments?

The story it self was good. The vocabulary for some of the kids was a little to grown up at times. But overall it was good listening book.

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Title: Chase Us

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Sean Ennis

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In this beautifully imaginative collection, young people attempt to negotiate the often surreal terrain of childhood and adolescence where family, friends, clergy, and teachers often pose a threat instead of providing safe harbor. At the heart of the collection is the relationship between the meek narrator, his best friend alpha-male Clip, and the near-feral Roger - but there are also agoraphobic mothers, gorgeous babysitters from New Zealand, paranoid stoned veterans, and deeply sad older sisters.

Ennis has crafted modern-day captivity narratives, set not at some remote fort, but in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Using cinematic imagery and deft characterization, Ennis explores how we often feel confined and yet, find ourselves in places we least expect.

Members Reviews:

Oddly Compelling

I am not sure what I expected when I picked up this audiobook, but it wasn't what I got. The author takes a collection of bizarre life stories and gives them a weight that will pull at you.

This is essentially a collection of short stories about the same group of people throughout their lives. The stories, however, are non-linear. I do not mean that they jump around. I mean the characters' backstories and their relationships with each other vary from story to story. But there are common themes running throughout. The characters manage to be both the same and different in every story. It was very different and very interesting. The effect was not a collection of short stories, but of one complete story. Maybe the only story. The author manages to use funny stories about adolescent boys to make you feel the the weight, the pull, of existence. That sounds pretentious, I know. But that's how I feel right now after finishing this audiobook. Heavy. Not in a bad gloomy way, but in a 'this has significance' sort of way.

I think the most amazing part of this is that the author pulled me through this metaphor, this existential type journey and I didn't even feel it. It didn't feel pretentious while it was happening, if you get me. (Anyone else having a hard time reading Koontz these days?). I laughed, I was uncomfortable, and there was some 'holy shit!'. Basically, I enjoyed listening to a book. But I came away with more. I can tell I will keep thinking about this one.

The narrator did a great job as well. No problems. Except maybe his Philly accent sounded a little New York ;)

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Title: Urchin

Author: Lisa Heiserman Perkins

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Living under the shadow of two gifted parents, Astrid Nordling feels trapped everywhere but at the piano, finding solace in Schubert and Debussy. Her piano teacher is convinced that she is a prodigy; her mother is not so sure.

Set in 1960s Chicago, this excerpt from Lisa Heiserman Perkins' upcoming novel shows that there can be such a thing as too much talent in a single family. As Astrid competes with her dramatic, high-strung mother for the spotlight, their tug-of-war threatens to pull the family apart.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.

Members Reviews:

Passionate and Gorgeous Story

Urchin is a gorgeous story about familial intimacy and strife. It's like watching and being in a film at the same time. You are right there in this striving, passionate family. In particular the children reach out to you and within a few pages really matter. You care. Your heart beats, rages and hurts with theirs. Urchin was impossible to put down (or turn off, because it's on Kindle) and i want to read the novel as soon as possible. Visual artists like me will be struck by the images of the academic world woven through the story. And those drawn to the sensibilities of Christina Stead, A.S. Byatt and Elizabeth Bowen will appreciate Urchin because of it's beauty and psychological intensity. On the strength of this story am ordering some more Solos. So great for commutes. And a thrifty way to check out new writing.

Who is this Perkins woman who writes as if fiction for adults hadn't stopped mattering a generation ago?

There are only a few pages in a Ploughshares sample available free on kindle, but they are magnificently real, beautifully paced and phrased, funny, heartbreaking, complex, funny, and effortlessly vivid. Flustered, flusterable daughter, narcissist intellectual snob mother, and ineffectual yet godlike father have never been done better or more swiftly. I'd wait outside her window waiting for additional pages to flutter off her printer.

Startling sight of a real urchin

AT first you think the author inkidding, but nope you were right in the first place. Mama is not a Betty Crocker mother and our protagonist is not a common everyday kid. In a way, no, the author got the mood, the very world of this kid to a tea. POOR little urchin! I loved the story and felt that the author knew intimately this character...and I too got her. Thank you for the hint of a really good read! Hope there will be more soon.

'Better than prose'

A recent NY Times obit on author Peter Matthiessen included a quote on the difference between nonfiction and fiction.

"Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet," he said. "It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts --- or predetermined forms --- it cannot fly."

By Matthiessen's measure, "Urchin" is sculpture in flight. A virtuoso take on virtuosity.

Urchin: complex, rewarding

Urchin is a compelling, finely wrought story that connects the aesthetic and the psychological, portraying a world that is both specific (that of a particular family in postwar academia) and universal (the complex of emotions that family feels, the currents stirred by art, the turbulence of a historical moment). It's both provoking and enjoyable, and it stays with you beyond the initial reading.

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Title: Fallout

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sadie Jones

Narrator: Steve West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A deeply affecting love story set in the gritty yet magnificent theatre world of 1970s London by the award-winning, bestselling Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests and The Outcase.

Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: Intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley, the girl Paul loves. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company, living and working together, forging a connection in the smoky late nights of Chelseas run-down flats and damp rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit during power cuts, where a new generation of writers and directors is fighting for its place.

Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognizes a soul in danger, and loyalty, friendship, everything he has fought for, is drawn into the heat of their collision. As Luke ricochets between honesty and deceit, the promise of the future and his own painful past, suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.

Fallout is an elegantly crafted novel that brings us firmly into the psyche of romantic love, its sickness and its ecstasy.

Members Reviews:

"The fallout that had warped his heart."

This novel is about the failure of mother love. In the end, the point of the intersecting love triangles had not been raised in human love. Luke's mother is insane and lives in an asylum. All his best efforts cannot save her, and as an adult, he misses the connection to women as one he can successfully maintain. The charismatic Luke is drawn to Nina, abandoned to an aunt until old enough to server as the focus of her stage mother. The constellation of missed opportunities and the love that Luke is meant to find, is complex. All in all it is a witty book with some pithy and apt observatons on life and love. Many of the scenes are exceptional in their ability to touch on the realities and pains of love.

My primary problem is the central assumption that these characters can be fatally wounded from childhood. It has some patent truth, but these characters are too complex for this simple poison to shape all of a lifetime. Luke's other love interest Leigh is of a solid background and she recognizes the stain , "the fallout" of Luke's core. As beguinling as it is, the premise is just too simple to account for all the damage that these intelligent and thoughtful people wreck on each other and the world.

An author must help the reader to draw conclusions

The first part of 'Fallout' is confusing - too many quick changes of points of view, without any explanation of background. The bulk of the story, set in 1972 London, is an easy, interesting read about people trying to do something different in the world of theater. The problem is that the reasons for certain things happening was far from clear e.g. why did the various relationships come together and break apart? Yes, the author should leave much to the reader's imagination, but the author must create the atmosphere to allow the imagination to work - I don't think Sadie Jones did this. The end is very predictable.

It was recommended by a colleague so I'd expected an intelligent read ...

Disappointing. It was recommended by a colleague so I'd expected an intelligent read but what I got was voyeuristic and predictable.

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Title: Follow Me Home

Author: Cassandra R. Fowlie

Narrator: Cassandra R. Fowlie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-14

Publisher: Harmonic Wave

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

There has been an accident. A girl sits inside a car, her behavior seemingly indifferent to the chaos outside. Karle has been there for hours. Her eyes will not focus on what is happening outside. Instead she remembers the hours before she came to be there. She and her mother had been in the airport waiting for her brother Benjamin to come home. Karles brother was a soldier who had just come home for shore leave. They had always been close. When they had been younger they would hunt for feathers in the backyard. When he came home from the service, he gave her the feather of a booted eagle. Written on the feathers stem are the words:But to fly with the remembrance that I am by your side.

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Title: Nada

Author: Mike Heppner

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In this darkly funny and often unsettling novella, Mike Heppner (The Egg Code, Pike's Folly, The Man Talking Project) introduces listeners to Nada Zilch, a social omnivore and reality TV star with a taste for staying up all night and pushing people's buttons. Always the loudest, smartest voice in the room, Nada has chosen her victim for the night: Billy Gallagher, an NYU professor who is struggling to put his own excesses behind him. What starts out as a business proposition between two strangers quickly evolves into a cackling ride through Manhattan at night, where the laughs are all fake, the drinks are all paid for, and the buzz and the hangover merge into violence at first light.

Members Reviews:

Consistent with Expectations

I liked the idea behind this story but I feel a bit cheated by the characters. Nada was just too exaggerated to be taken seriously and was a constant reminder of the fact that it was all fiction. It made the resolution a bit predictable. It didn't feel wholly original but I appreciate the satire.

Was alright.

Story just kind of ended. I know it's a short story and I get that the author was trying to leave you hanging so your imagination could fill in the rest but it just seemed lacking a bit.

Fantastic novella.

Heppner has crafted a truly engaging and engrossing novella that you'll want to read immediately. I haven't read better characters than Nada and Billy in a long, long time. Can't wait to read the next one.

BORING AND SAD

maybe someone will find this to be a good story. It was boring and just a narrative about damaged people doing wrong things , making bad decisions for the wrong reasons.

This book is horrible

Terrible. I wish I could get refunded my money. The story is horrible. I wouldn't give it 1 star. Don't waste ur money

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Title: Beauty

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Frederick G. Dillen

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

This "absorbing and memorable novel", (Tom Perrotta) set in the world of corporate intrigue, is about a woman who must choose between her dream job and everything else - her savings, her reputation, and an unexpected chance at love.

As a corporate "undertaker" for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with.

The payoff is huge: If Carol works hard enough, her boss has promised to make her CEO of one of the firm's holdings. Just when it seems like her dream might come true, on a trip that takes her away from New York to a desperate fishing town in coastal Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: "You're fired."

Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of the townspeople and a charming local fisherman, she begins to understand the power of life's second acts. She becomes determined to save the factory she almost shut down. As Carol throws herself into transforming the company, she must choose between the job she has always wantedand everything else.

From award-winning author Frederick G. Dillen, Beauty reminds us that sometimes in the pursuit of what we think we want, we lose sight of what matters most.

Members Reviews:

Nice Story, Great Read

What did you love best about Beauty?

It was an appropriate fictional telling of a scenario that happens a good amount nowadays. Conscience vs. The Mighty Dollar. And the narrator does a great job flushing these characters out. Nice variety too.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Easy. Memorable Salt-of-the-Earth East Coaster. I remember people like him.

What does Chris Andrew Ciulla bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

All these characters were real. And there was a good amount of variation between them all. Was quite a colorful bit of storytelling.

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

Some wordplay on Beauty and The Beast...but would have to take some time to flush it out.

Good idea, but missing something

This book had an interesting premise, but kind of fell apart toward the end. Narration just okay. An average listen.

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Title: The Lair

Author: Norman Manea, Oana Sanziana Marian (translator)

Narrator: Ken Kliban

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for national and individual identity.

Manea's characters seek a place and a voice in America, only to discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologies are impossible to break.

Manea's themes and narrative approach are intricate: his style fluctuates in correspondence with the instability of his characters' lives, his story is encased within an elaborate network of allusions and paradoxes. Yet in the midst of the novel's overriding disorientation, the author establishes intersections and uncovers the universal. Through the predicaments of his perpetual outsiders, he offers a poignant assessment of the conflicts of the individual in the age of globalization. He writes with unmatched intensity and a unique sensitivity to the human tragicomedy.