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Titre: Les Oliviers du Négus

Auteur: Laurent Gaudé

Narrateur: Laurent Gaudé

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 5 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-21-16

Éditeur: Éditions Thélème

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans la proximité de la guerre ou de la mort surgissent quatre récits où les héros - certes vaincus, mais non déchus - prononcent d'ultimes paroles. Ils veulent témoigner, transmettre et sceller des adieux. Et ils profèrent la loi tragique - celle de la finitude - qui, au-delà de toute conviction, donne force et vérité à leur message. D'où la dimension orale de ces textes qui revisitent la scène de l'œuvre romanesque et, de Cris à La Porte des Enfers, réorchestrent des thèmes chers à Laurent Gaudé, auxquels la forme brève donne une singulière puissance.

©2011 Actes Sud (P)2012 Éditions Thélème

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Title: Truly Madly Guilty

Author: Liane Moriarty

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Once again Liane Moriarty uses her unique, razor-sharp observational skills to sift through the emerging fault lines of seemingly happy families.

If only they'd said no....

What if they hadn't gone? That's the question Clementine can't stop asking herself.

It was just a backyard barbeque. They didn't know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband, Sam, said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that beautiful winter's day. Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One yapping dog. It's a normal weekend in the suburbs. What could possibly go wrong?

Members Reviews:

No Different to Other Liane Moriarty Work

Same painstaking trickling out of information to the reader. Liane Moriarty makes a meal of scraps. It is thrilling the first time one reads her works, tiresome the second, and exhausting the third.

Caroline Lee reads well, but often reads negative emotion into what could be neutral statements.

Truly Madly Guilty

I found the book hard to get into, but then kept on wanting to know more. Amazing how one event can trigger so much..

By the end of the book, I was into it and enjoyed it.

Truly a great listen.

Liane Moriarty is currently my favorite author. This story was fun and believable and compelling. I enjoy reading her books but love listening to Caroline Lee read them even more. There are always a few twists that I never expect and Truly Madly Guilty delivered.

Not my favorite

While I've enjoyed several Liane Moriarty stories, this one just took way too long to come together. The last 1/3 of the book was very good, but it was hard for me to keep going to get there. Caroline Lee, the narrator, was absolutely superb which made the trudge through the first part of the story worth it.

Loved this book the authors best work

I loved the blend of characters and the unfolding of the story. I am so glad I started it in a Friday!

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Title: Dance Dance Dance

Author: Haruki Murakami

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-16

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to MasterCard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers.

Dont forget the one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.

Critic Reviews:

"Brilliantly combines elements of the surreal, film noir and existentialist enquiry." (Sunday Times)

"There are echoes of Raymond Chandler, John Irving and Raymond Carver, but Mr. Murakami's mysterious plots and original characters are very much his own creation." (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Hypnotically magical and weirdly fun...

Loved it... Probably will listen to it again. Has the Sheepman again. Every thing that you like in a murakami book

Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'

What about Rupert Degass performance did you like?

Rupert Degas' voice acting is superb, and frankly with the number of speaking characters in a Murakami book, anything less than superb would not deliver the convincing portrayals that Mr Degas does. Each character is distinctly voiced and immediately recognised whenever they appear.

Any additional comments?

If you've enjoyed any of Murakami's other books, Dance Dance Dance will not disappoint, and if you haven't read/listened to any of his other books, this is as good a place to start as any. Murakami's genius is to make the extraordinary seem commonplace. Several familiar themes appear - a nameless first-person narrating protagonist who is a divorced man in his 30s, a precocious teenaged-girl, beautiful but mysterious women, intense darkness, trans-muralisation - oh and a dead cat makes a brief appearance too. All these (and more - but avoiding spoilers) woven into a compelling narrative. I read somewhere that the first thing you should do when you finish reading a Murakami novel is to start it again, and on second listening, Dance Dance Dance delivers up a wealth of detail, the significance of which was lost on me first time around. Brilliant work!

loved it!yyuytutryyytrr

Amazing book amazing narration and I actually enjoyrd that it was shorter than most murakami's books.

wonderfull!

i really liked the narrator. i feel like having lived this book... it lingerd in many ways.

Spellbinding

Another great listen to this author with superb narration. Full of twists and turns and pearls of observation on the diversity of humanity.

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Title: If I Forget You

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Thomas Christopher Greene

Narrator: Kevin Pariseau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Two former lovers reconnect in this beautiful and haunting tale of great lost love from the critically acclaimed author of The Headmaster's Wife.

Deeply affecting and compulsively listenable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas Christopher Greene. Now Greene returns with a beautifully written, emotional new novel perfect for his growing audience.

Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control, two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense, suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love.

Told from alternating points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star-crossed love affair, complete with the secrets they carry when they find each other for the second time. Written in lyrical prose, If I Forget You is at once a great love story; a novel of marriage, manners, and family; a meditation on the nature of art; and a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.

Critic Reviews:

"Thomas Christopher Greene's If I Forget You is the most moving and beautifully-written love story I've read since Cold Mountain." (Howard Frank Mosher, author of God's Kingdom)

Members Reviews:

Irritating reader

Great story but this guy's voice is grating. Can't abide it for more than a few pages at a time.

Good but underdeveloped

I liked this book but I thought that there were parts of the characters relationship development that seemed illogically or unnaturally rushed... so it made it really hard to truly emotionally connect even though conceptually it should have been a really touching, dynamic book.

Very well written!

What did you love best about If I Forget You?

Loved this book. A story about Margot and Henry who meet in college and fall in love but because of Margot's father, their relationship could not continue. Frankly, I felt Henry wasn't treated fairly at all. Twenty years later, Margot and Henry meet again and you wonder if they will end up together again or once again go their separate ways. Told in alternating points of view from the past and present by Margot and Henry. Beautifully done. Enjoyed the narration in the audio book.

A story from New England of love affected by time and family

Practical enough for men, romantic enough for women; this intriguing story keeps coming to my mind even after several days, Love affected by our decisions and by the decisions of others. Time is a temporary separator. There is a twist at the end I didn't see coming. The narrator nails the New England accent where "a's" are "r's" and "r's" are pronounced "A's".

Good, but not great.

All in all, this was a lovely story and a nice way to pass a summer afternoon. Which is just fine. I had hoped for a little more, however. My biggest complaint, if you could even call it that, was that even by the end of it, I felt like I didn't really know the characters all that well. Henry didn't feel quite as flat as Margot, but both characters weren't as flushed out as they could have been.

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Titre: American psycho

Auteur: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrateur: Pierre Tissot

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 20 hrs and 15 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-07-16

Éditeur: Éditions Thélème

Evaluation: 3 sur 5 sur 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

La jeunesse dorée des golden-boys new-yorkais des années 1980 : l'argent et les filles abondent, tout est facile et superficiel.

Patrick Bateman a 27 ans, et rien ne lui est impossible. À travers une écriture révolutionnaire, Bret Easton Ellis livre le récit désillusionné d'un homme pour qui le dernier after-shave acheté compte plus que le dernier clochard qu'il aura tué la veille. Un roman sombre et dérangeant où la violence et l'absence de morale forment la trame principale.

©1991 Éditions du Seuil / Curtis Brown (P)2011 Éditions Thélème

Avis des membres:

Saisissant.

Incroyable commentaire sociale. L'histoire est fascinate et le character principal Patrick Bateman est iconique.

Bon aussi pour ce qui apprends le français. Je suis anglophone, niveau B2/C1, et je l'ai compris sans peine.

Parfois je me demandais si le narrateur Pierre Tissot a saisi le ton du roman mais j'ai fini par apprécier son performance.

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Title: Misery

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Lindsay Crouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of best sellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing.

That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital.

Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news was that Annie was a nurse and had painkilling drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul's Number One Fan. And when she found out what Paul had done to Misery, she didn't like it. She didn't like it at all. And now he had to bring Misery back to life. Or else....

Members Reviews:

Creepy, atmospheric, chilling, awesome.

I've been listening to this audiobook on cassette for a VERY long time. It's my favourite. The writing is simply excellent. Lindsay Crouse is FANTASTIC as the narrator, really bringing to life Annie's psychosis, while giving Paul a meek yet determined voice. I cannot recommend this book enough, to classic King fans, book fans, horror fans, psychological drama fans etc. Finally having this digitally is a total blessing as my cassette is more than worn out after all these years.

Final though - GET IT.

favourite author with excellent narration

a great King story, (so much better than the film), with excellent gripping narration, i usually take a while to adjust to the narrators style but this was so natural and a perfect fit to the story that it took no adjustment at all- one of the best so far. Character voices were consistent, great sound quality, and there were no obvious breaks and no speech quirks to notice. sometimes, in other stories, i got the impression the narrator had been in a different mood on different days of recording, but here the reading was as though it had been done all in one. I usually prefer longer stories, so this ended sooner than i would have liked, but thats because I miss the characters when the book ends- the length suits the story perfectly. Highly recommended.

Scary !!! and Wonderful

A brilliantly scary story, wonderfully read by Lindsay Crouse, which using interesting themes and metaphors demonstrates a master class in writing. (Such as the tides being compared to pain)! Demonstrating Stephen Kings excellent style. There are shocking screens which make me want to see the movie and a story within the story of misery returns. Moreover, it really keeps the listener captivate even when our hero finally thinks hes free.

One warning! Dont read this if you are recovering from an illness in bed!

One of the best Stephen King audiobooks

Lindsay Crouse is as excellent as Grover Gardener or Ron McLarty at capturing the tone and terror of Stephen King. Her performances as Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes are powerful and distinct. She makes Annie as loathsome and terrifying as Kathy Bates did in 1990.

One of my favourites

This was a really good listen. Adds another dimension to the whole Misery experience, as you cannot gloss over or skim the gruesome bits....as you can when reading. As always, with Stephen King, the characters are so brilliantly and believably painted.

After initial reservations about the narrator....I thought she was a little deadpan in her delivery.....this style in fact became very effective. She did a great job building up the tension.

An excellent listen.

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Title: The Sudden Appearance of Hope

Author: Claire North

Narrator: Gillian Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2017 World Fantasy Award

Claire North has been shortlisted for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award

My name is Hope Arden. I am the girl the world forgets.

It started when I was 16 years old.

A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.

No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit - you will never remember who I am.

That makes my life tricky. It also makes me dangerous....

The Sudden Appearance of Hope is the tale of a girl no one remembers, yet her story will stay with you for ever.

Critic Reviews:

"A mesmerising writer." (Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls)

"North's talent shines out." (The Sunday Times)

"Little short of a masterpiece." (The Independent)

Members Reviews:

Another stellar piece from Claire North

Listening to Claire North novel is a total joy. Well wrought characters, with innovative and surprising plots.

Incredible musings of a forgotten mind

Of loneliness, of history, of meaning, of worth, of self, of truth.

Do yourself a favor and read this.

SOOOOOOOO boring

I tried to finish it. Went into a depression so had to stop. Droning narrator.

Great concept but unsatisfactory execution.

The notion of not being remembered is one that is very interesting but I feel the potential to explore this was lost in the subplot involving the technology surrounding perfection. Both ideas warrant their own book. The narrator is good but her Scottish accent is dire and distracting.

Not quite hitting the spot

When the story is actually happening it's interesting. I found it hard to get past what could only be described as a heavy peppering of really bad poetry at every emotive opportunity.

This book had a lot of good ideas but I find myself looking at it like a cake someone decorated poorly, thinking what a shame. At least it tastes nice.

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Title: Eleven Hours

Author: Pamela Erens

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lore arrives at the hospital alone - no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: She wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward - herself on the verge of showing - is patient with the young woman. She knows what it's like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. She knows as well as anyone the severe challenge of childbirth, what it does to the mind and the body.

Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that's waiting for her.

Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which she's exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens' novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhood - with fear and joy, anguish and awe.

Members Reviews:

Fabulously read, beautifully written, moving . I

read it and listened to it twice . I highly recommend it, a really deeply good book.

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Title: Meant to Be

Author: Edie Claire

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From USA Today best-selling author Edie Claire, a 4.5-star Romantic Times Top Pick and winner of the Romance Reviews Today Perfect Ten Award!

When nothing is as it seems, all you can do is trust your heart....

On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Meara O'Rourke can't help but feel alone. With her last remaining relative newly buried and her potentially disastrous engagement freshly broken, she makes a resolution to begin her life anew - only to have an unexpected phone call turn her whole world upside down. Her biological mother, Sheila, whom she met only once six years before, lies in critical condition in a nearby hospital. And though the woman once refused to see her daughter ever again - her last wish is just the opposite.

A few whispered words, and Sheila is gone. But the questions she has put into her daughter's head, and the historic stone inn she has unknowingly bequeathed, sweep Meara up into the whirlwind of another life - and a legacy of deception. When Meara begins to have memories of a place she's never been, she realizes that while finding out the truth about her birth and adoption could answer all her questions - it could also tear her apart.

Critic Reviews:

"A marvelous story that skillfully interweaves romance with the mystery.... Claire makes each element of this terrific tale count." (Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine)

"An absorbing family mystery...there's no denying that this story is suspenseful." (Publisher's Weekly)

"One of the best books I have read this year... An element of suspense runs through the pages, and the endearing tale builds to a crescendo of excitement and thrill while warming the heart. Meant to Be is a powerful story of love, healing, discovery and truth.... I closed the covers wishing I could stay inside the green world of Meara and Fletcher's mountain. Ms. Claire has woven a tale that touched my soul and will live as a cherished keeper to read again and again. I am pleased to award Meant to Be our finest honor, RRT's Perfect 10" Perfect 10 Award." (Romance Reviews Today)

Members Reviews:

Great story

I really enjoyed this audio book. Vanessa did a great job narrating, just the right touch of enthusiasim and seriousness at the right time. Very clear enunciations. I had read this in ebook format years ago and enjoyed hearing it again on a cross country trip. The storyline is a very good one. Edie is a great author and I have enjoyed many of her books.

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Titre: No et moi

Auteur: Delphine de Vigan

Narrateur: Lola Naymark

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-16-16

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Elle avait l'air si jeune. En même temps il m'avait semblé qu'elle connaissait vraiment la vie, ou plutôt qu'elle connaissait de la vie quelque chose qui faisait peur." Adolescente surdouée, Lou Bertignac rêve d'amour, observe les gens, collectionne les mots, multiplie les expériences domestiques et les théories fantaisistes. Jusqu'au jour où elle rencontre No, une jeune fille à peine plus âgée qu'elle. No, ses vêtements sales, son visage fatigué, No dont la solitude et l'errance questionnent le monde. Pour la sauver, Lou se lance alors dans une expérience de grande envergure menée contre le destin. Mais nul n'est à l'abri...

No et moi, paru en 2007, a été traduit dans vingt-cinq langues et adapté à l'écran par Zabou Breitman.

©2007 Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès (P)2016 Audiolib

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle :

"On plonge, incrédule, dans cette amitié incroyable qui pourtant tient la route. [...] Delphine de Vigan sait transmettre sa tendresse pour les envolées radicales de l'adolescence, ses coups de cœur qui passent avant tout le reste, son idéalisme."

Le Journal du dimanche

Avis des membres:

The book is definitely better than the movie

Had to read this for french class. The book is definitely better than the movie. Unfortunately shipping and processing took a while. but it was a great read. It definitely introduced me to some french culture and customs.Love it!

Loved this story! Love this author!

I soo enjoyed this story - the truth and the tenderness with which it is told. In my opinion, a must-read!!

Très bien écrit Sensible et respectueux de la souffrance des ...

Très bien écrit

Sensible et respectueux de la souffrance des plus faibles

À faire lire aux jeunes vers 15 ans....

Five Stars

Géniale mais triste.