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Title: Nor Many Waters

Author: Alec Waugh

Narrator: Alan Marriott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Nor Many Waters first appeared in 1928. This novel is typical Alec Waugh in its charm and grace, and its shrewd perception of human emotions and profound exploration of human relationships.

Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waughs first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society.

Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s social life.

Members Reviews:

Frightfully decent

It takes place in a London with a culture of decency practically forgotten. Two thoroughly decent chaps in a divorce tussle over the wife of one of them. She finally decides that she would be damaging to the man she wants to run off with, and returns to her husband. The plotting of a soap opera, or the logic of a prize-winning economist?

The woman never really comes to life, for all her 'gay laugh', etc. The author is also a thoroughly decent chap, so much so that you can't tell how far the affair got. Of course, a skilled writer doesn't need to have a sex scene every five pages to create sexual intensity, but Waugh writes as if the characters had nothing going on below the belt at all.

There were some strange verbal and typographical habits that I found off-putting. Waugh writes in a sometimes convoluted style, for example beginning a sentence with 'Than'. Also, he contracts 'he would', for example, as 'he'ld'.

I would have preferred the novel of James and Marian after they had run off, living in the Tangier of the 1920s and 1930s! Still, I kept turning the page and the mores never lost their interest.

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Title: Cat and Mouse

Subtitle: A Second Cajun Tale

Author: James Ory Theall

Narrator: Mike Ortego

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-13

Publisher: James Ory Theall

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Cat and his friends are back! The rich, cantankerous, narcissistic, but generous, septuagenarian Cajun, Clarence "Cat" Touchette, helps when his friend, Crosby "Souris" Babineaux finds his son in a coma at the family's marine transportation company. Cat begins probing, discovers unusual business practices by Souris' son, and scrutinizes a sleazy crew aboard a vessel chartered by a mysterious company.

Cat receives a call threatening his household unless he stops meddling, but he ignores the warning after identifying the caller. Someone kidnaps his granddaughter and Cat discovers thriving illegal enterprises in Louisiana Cajun country. Cat's fiancee, Delores, angers him when she inexplicably withholds her affections. They argue and his life is turned up side down.

In this sequel to Cat and Dog: A Cajun Tale, James Ory Theall's second novel of the series moves two story lines forward with entertaining dialogue as readers feel the characters' love, sadness, and tragedy.

Contains some strong language and descriptions of violence.

Members Reviews:

Hometown

As a person who grew up in this part of Louisiana I know these character. I am these characters. Well done.

Cat and Mouse, A Second Cajun Tale

This book was very entertaining. It was full of mystery, laughter and some sadness. I really liked it and could not put it down after starting to read it...

A rollicking, rowdy, romp

Jim Theall nails the Cajun world to a T. I felt like one of the guys as good old southern Louisiana Cajun conversation flowed naturally and consistently in Cat and Mouse: a second Cajun tale. Cat Touchette is a stubborn feller cranky about his age. He's tough on the bad guys but always a trusted and loyal friend. If I were to assign keywords to the novel I'd say it was a rollicking, rowdy, romp through heat and humidity. Jim Theall's tale is an enjoyable and entertaining read.

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Title: Ilyr

Author: Rayna Gangi

Narrator: Kimberly Henrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-13

Publisher: Rayna Gangi

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Internet romance woven within the politics of the globe. The microcosm of the macrocosm and back.

A Facebook connection brings two people together for a journey neither is sure they want to take. Divorce? Dealing with narcissistic personality disorder? Mormon versus Catholic beliefs? When they meet, they know their souls have waited lifetimes, but the entanglements of marriage and biases, coupled with the politics in America, make falling in love easy, but staying in love a challenge.

Members Reviews:

Not at all a story about love.

What would have made Ilyr better?

The author seemed very angry at another person she wanted to be her lover and was rejected. She is very angry at the Obama administration and uses her book to state her unfounded biases. She is confused about relationships, religion, and the role of counselor/teacher.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Something that leaves me less upset.

Which character as performed by Kimberly Henrie was your favorite?

She delivers the author convictions accurately.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Ilyr?

The whole book was difficult, the author seems to be really struggling with her own identity.

As a counselor she had her own agenda from the beginning in this relationship which she denied, At points she stated she was acting as a counselor and at other times as a lover. The children in her book, John and Jason, she directly cause these individuals to deteriorate and then took credit for saving. Her form of education is very controlling and scary. She is doing exactly what she blames the Obama administration of doing.

Any additional comments?

This seems to be a very confused person. She doesn't have insight into the harm she was doing to the young people in her book. She had no sense of boundaries. At the end she didn't seem to have any insight into her own behavior and why the relationship failed.

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Title: House of Secrets

Author: Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini

Narrator: Daniel Vincent Gordh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The House of Secrets follows three siblings and their family as they are forced to move to a mysterious new house in San Francisco and end up embarking on a journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power.

The Walker kids had it all: loving parents, a big house in San Francisco, all the latest video games But everything changed when their father lost his job. Now the family is moving into Kristoff House, a mysterious place built nearly a century earlier by a troubled fantasy writer. Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey, to retrieve a dark book of untold power and uncover the Walker family's secret history. Oh and save their parents... and maybe even the world.

Critic Reviews:

A breakneck, jam-packed, roller coaster of an adventure. (J. K. Rowling)

Members Reviews:

Never again

Would you try another book from Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini and/or Daniel Vincent Gordh?

Never another book from Chris Columbus again! He is a movie maker and should keep doing that instead. His book is filled with obvious movie scenes, grand and majestic, but the plot is incredibly thin and the characters are laughable.

Daniel Vincent Gordh however did an amazing job and I would love to hear more from him.

What could Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Write a better book with a good plot and likable characters.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Daniel was amazing, his change in tone made it easy to hear which character was speaking and he really went all in.

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

I had such high hopes for this book but was severely disappointed.

Any additional comments?

I tried this book mainly becauses of Daniel Vincent Gordh (Darcy!) and he sure didn't disappoint. I hope he gets another chance to read a better book!

Soulless money-spinner

This feels like a very calculated attempt to stitch together a bunch of themes and plot lines that a marketing team have decided children like, and then sell the book off the back of Harry Potter director Chris Columbus's name rather than the merits of the story itself. There are also some infuriating gender stereotypes that you really don't expect to see this side of the millennium. I had to give up on it halfway through because it was irritating me so much.

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Title: Skriv i Sandet [Write in the Sand]

Author: Marjun Syderb Kjelns

Narrator: Annette Grunnet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-13

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Marjun Syderb Kjelns (f. 1974) er en frsk forfatter. I 2008 modtog hun Tórshavn Byrds Brnebogspris, og i 2011 sikrede ungdomsromanen Skriv i sandet hende Nordisk Brnebogspris fra Nordisk Skolebibliotekarforening.I ungdomsromanen Skriv i Sandet flger man gennem ti kapitler fem piger og fem drenge i alderen 16-20 r og deres oplevelser over en weekend i Frernes hovedstad Tórshavn.

De ti unge kender ikke alle hinanden p forhnd, men deres veje krydses i lbet af weekenden, og de ti fortllinger - om forelskelse, jalousi, venskaber, familie, spiseforstyrrelser, mobning, misbrug, sex, homoseksualitet og religion - vves ind i hinanden. Romanen tegner et facetteret billede af frske unge i 2010erne og deres tanker og lngsler, problemer og konflikter, glder og sorger.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

Critic Reviews:

Der er intet belrende over denne prisbelnnede frske ungdomsroman ... P en fin mde formr forfatteren p én gang at bringe sine 10 hovedpersoners meget forskellige perspektiver p weekendens begivenheder i spil og at bibeholde sit forfatterblik p den samlede fortlling ... Meget frsk. Meget fint. (Karen Lise Sndergaard Brandt, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten)

Marjun Syderb Kjelns fanger tonen af lavmlt desperation. Hun er isr god til alt det usagte ... Der er alvor og klarhed i disse historier fra udkanten af det danske rige. Det er bde velkendt og anderledes. (Steffen Larsen, Politiken)

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Title: Mod Naturen [Against Nature]

Author: Tomas Espedal

Narrator: Carsten Warming

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-13

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tomas Espedal, f. 1961 i Bergen, debuterede i 1988 og har udgivet tolv bger. Nomineret til Nordisk Rds Litteraturpris for G og Mod kunsten. Fik i 2010 Kritikerprisen for Mod kunsten og i 2011 Brageprisen for Mod naturen.

Mod Naturen er en undersgelse af arbejdet: fabriksarbejdet, skrivearbejdet og krlighedsarbejdet. Og en bog om den svre krlighed mellem en ldre mand og en yngre kvinde. Hvad er naturligt? Og hvorfor drages fortlleren mod det umulige: den umulige krlighed, bgerne, myterne, tabuerne? Han lser fortllingen om Abélard og Héloïse, og langsomt gr det op for ham, at han selv lever mod naturen.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

Critic Reviews:

Espedal viser endnu engang, at han er en af Nordens strkeste forfatterstemmer. Om ikke dén strkeste. (Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen, Berlingske)

Tomas Espedal er Knausgrds rejseflle og skyggebokser. Begge skriver hudlst rligt og bundlst digterisk. (Kim Skotte, Politiken)

Med sin kirurgiske hnd, sit prcise snit ind i livet og lykken og sit usentimentale blik ned i kldermrkethar Tomas Espedal sat sig p toppen af bjerget i norsk litteratur. (Liselotte Wiemer, Kristeligt Dagblad)

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Title: I Tider med Aftagende Lys

Author: Eugen Ruge

Narrator: Dan Schlosser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-13

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Eugen Ruge er fdt i det vestlige Rusland og vokset op i stberlin. Han har arbejdet som dramatiker og overstter for diverse teatre og tv-selskaber. I Tider med Aftagende Lys er hans debutroman, som han i 2011 modtog Deutscher Buchpreis for. I Tider med Aftagende Lys beskriver en russisk-sttysk families historie fra 1950erne, over murens fald i 1989 og frem til 2001.

Handlingen frer fra Mexico og Sibirien til det nye land DDR. Derved opstr en stor tysk roman, der p en varm og morsom mde fortller historien om en sttysk familie, hvis skbne er ulseligt forbundet med det 20. rhundredes dramatiske begivenheder.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Danish.

Critic Reviews:

Den tyske ugeavis Die Zeit kaldte den med henvisning til Thomas Manns romanklassiker om en tysk kbmandsfamilies fald for 'den store DDR-Buddenbrooks-roman'. Det er store ord, men ikke for store. Bortset fra Uwe Tellkamps moppedreng fra 2008, Trnet, har jeg ikke lst noget bedre om DDR som politisk og ndelig tilstand. (Thomas Thurah, Politiken)

Med denne roman og Uwe Tellkamps svrvgter Trnet har den forvundne stat DDR og dermed det forunderligste kapitel i det 20. rhundredes Europa fet sin sknlitterre krnike. Skulle man vre i tvivl om den litterre kunsts enestende formen, skal man bare lse her. Kun den episke digtning formr s suvernt at gribe og fastholde menneskene i tidens strm. (Claes Kastholm Hansen, Berlingske)

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Title: Shadoe and the Dweebs

Author: E. Hyland Maze

Narrator: E. Hyland Maze

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-13

Publisher: E. Hyland Maze

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Here begins the story of Shadoe Waz: Her life and times in the land that would be named in her honor; her self-exile from the control of Wicked Queen Squippache; and, her adventures in the Dark Forest. In this tale, you will, also, meet the Dweebs, Fuzzy the Bear, Sheriff Sadie and a host of other delightful creatures. And, for the first time in decades, introducing Mirror-Mirror-on-the-Floor, a mere reflection of his Great, Great, Great, Grandfather.

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Title: At the Crossing of Justice and Mercy

Subtitle: The Cult Trilogy, Volume 2

Author: Dan Erickson

Narrator: Bill Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-13

Publisher: Dan Erickson

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

At the Crossing of Justice and Mercy is Dan Erickson's second novel.

It's a story about making a choice between taking justice into our own hands or acting merciful toward our enemies. Nearly three decades have passed since Andy Burden forgave his greatest enemy, the cult leader of his youth, Peter Smith.

Andy has since married, divorced, and is now a single father. But an email from Andy's brother, Simon, sets a mystery into motion. Peter Smith may have faked his own death. Andy wants to know if Peter Smith is still alive. If the former cult leader is still alive, is he harming others, as he harmed Andy?

Members Reviews:

At the Crossing of Justice and Mercy (The Cult Trilogy)

Dan had written another captivating book that will hold the reader glued to it until the very end. I am now waiting anxiously for the last in book in the trilogy.

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Title: The Potter's Daughter

Author: Daniel Arthur Smith

Narrator: Daniel Arthur Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-13

Publisher: Holt Smith Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Potter's Daughter really is a special story of a woman's relationships with her father, her past, and the new man in her life. Abby Bellen, the estranged daughter of an aging ceramic artist, feels obligated to return to her home on Willow Lake to put her father's life in order on account of a promise made to her dying mother. Years have passed since Abby fled the home of her youth and a past she would rather forget. Now Abby has no choice other than confrontation as she discovers, with the help of new romance Mitch Carlson, what she needs to make herself whole.

Members Reviews:

The Potter's Daughter

I was drawn in to Abby' s story right from page one, and it kept my attention to the very last page!! In fact I was disappointed when her story came to an end, I wanted more!! The author did an excellent job with his descriptions of all the places in Willow Lake, I was able to visualize myself being right there with them in the story. The story was full of interesting characters and places, I am hoping Abby' s story will continue in a sequel, I'd like to visit Willow Lake again, maybe in the summer? I would definitely recommend this book!!

good read!

Clastic story of family dynamics, generational differences. it is a love story on several levels. I enjoyed it could see my own family.

Four Stars

Ok

The Potters Daughter

This book was an awesome read! I enjoyed reading it. I really wish there were more books like this! Please read!

Another Form Romance Novel

I read for entertainment, not for literary value. "The Potter's Daughter" was just one more in a long line of romance novels that seems to take the easy way out ...following the usual format of romance novels. I'm sorry, but while I often enjoy such novels, I seek a little more depth to a story. Woman discovers hot-looking hunk male, her knees turn weak, she's instantly in love/lust, and then there's the usual tensions of some kind, then they all live happily ever after in gingerbread houses.

Sorry, but life is just not like that. I mean, do women really get weak in the knees when they see some hot-looking hunk of a man?

Maybe I've just read so many such novels that I'm sated?

Patrick