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Título: La Dama de las Camelias [The Lady of the Camellias]

Autor: Alexandre Dumas

Narrador: Laura Garcia

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 36 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-22-05

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 5 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

This novel, known in English as Camille, is based on the real life story of a parisian courtesan. It narrates the touching sacrifice of the heroine in behalf of a girl that she doesn't even knows. All the absurdity of social conventions is revealed in this masterpiece.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Recomendable

Muy bueno el libro. Felicitaciones a la narradora, muy clara su lectura. Muy grata Narracion

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Title: The Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

Narrator: Dermot Kerrigan

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-03

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Carruthers is rescued from a hot summer at a deserted Foreign Office in London, by an out-of-the-blue invitation to join an acquaintance, Davies, on his yacht in the Baltic. He arrives to find not only that he comprises the whole crew, but also that Davies needs his help in a spying mission with enormous stakes. The Riddle of the Sands, with its early warnings of the dangers of a German invasion by sea, created a sensation when it appeared in 1903. It is the forerunner of the spy novels of John le Carré and Graham Greene, and its detail and dry humor have made it a classic for sailors as well as for thriller addicts.

Editorial Reviews:

Journalist, novelist, politician, agitator, spy - this author's life would make better reading than any of his fiction. Still, this spy thriller raised a lot of commotion when first published in 1903. Indeed, it spawned a whole genre. It is a first-person tale of stereotypical young Englishmen on the scent of German spies in the North Sea. This is all very conventional Edwardian fare except for the loving details of yachting and the prophetic hint of German imperial ambition. Dermot Kerrigan has the right sound for the hero/storyteller - youthful, energetic, just a bit strident.

Members Reviews:

Lost treasure

I read an old paperback of this book a few years ago, and am so pleased to see it here where it will hopefully be rediscovered. The best aspects are its unusual geographic setting and the dreamlike/nightmarish quality taken on by the protagonist's little sailing trip. I hope the recording is good because the story deserves a larger audience (not to mention a film deal).

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Title: Mothers & Daughters

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Rae Meadows

Narrator: Maggi Meg Reed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A rich and luminous novel about three generations of women in one family: the love they share, the dreams they refuse to surrender, and the secrets they hold Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhoodthe softness of her eight-month-old daughter's skin, the lovely weight of her child in her armsbut in trading her artistic dreams to care for her child, Sam worries she's lost something of herself. And she is still mourning another loss: her mother, Iris, died just one year ago.

When a box of Iris's belongings arrives on Sam's doorstep, she discovers links to pieces of her family history but is puzzled by much of the information the box contains. She learns that her grandmother Violet left New York City as an eleven-year-old girl, traveling by herself to the Midwest in search of a better life. But what was Violet's real reason for leaving? And how could she have made that trip alone at such a tender age?

In confronting secrets from her family's past, Sam comes to terms with deep secrets from her own. Moving back and forth in time between the stories of Sam, Violet, and Iris, Mothers and Daughters is the spellbinding tale of three remarkable women connected across a century by the complex wonder of motherhood.

Members Reviews:

Touching...

but it was a little hard to get into. But once I was into the story, I did enjoy it and the reader did a nice job.

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Título: Las Almas Muertas [The Dead Souls]

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Narrador: Santiago Munevar

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-20-06

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

A Russian gentleman of industry, Chichikov, has discovered that if he buys from his old owners the right to servants that have died (the dead souls of the title) after the last census, he can become rich.

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Title: Shot-Blue

Author: Jesse Ruddock

Narrator: Andrew McPherson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Coach House Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake - remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to live alone, his youth unprotected and rough. The wild, open place that is all he knows will be overrun by strangers - strangers inhabiting the lodge that has replaced his home, strangers who make him fight, talk, and even love, when he doesn't want to. Ravenous and unrelenting, Shot-Blue is a book of first love and first loss.

Critic Reviews:

"Simply breathtaking...Ruddock writes moments of startling intimacy." (New York Times)

"A tough, hardscrabble book...Ruddock has a horrible knack for immediacy." (Globe and Mail)

Members Reviews:

Beautifully written

In "Shot-Blue", we meet Rachel who is a single mother raising her son Tristan in a small isolated community. They are barely able to survive, but she manages to provide a level of subsistence.

When she disappears one day, young Tristan is unprepared; however, he finds work and in the process matures much faster than someone of his age.

Thank you GoodReads for the book.

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Title: The Crucible of Achilles

Author: Takis John Pepe

Narrator: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-16

Publisher: Takis J. Pepe

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It is believed Homer was blind, yet this adaptation proves his vision was far reaching and his insight into the human condition more relevant than ever. The Iliad is revitalized in this contemporary version with a central focus on the epic's deadliest hero, Achilles. This time, Archie is 27-year-old combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, achieving moderate celebrity as the crowd favorite of an underground fight club. Blessed as a fighter, he yearns for a life of peace but is thrust into the greatest battle he will ever know when confronted by a dangerous rival and his own mortality. Homer's original yarn has been stretched across the millennia, weaving seamlessly man's battle with himself, his enemies and his God into today's modern fabric.

Members Reviews:

Heartfelt and emotional

Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting the the author . It was be accident that I bumped in to him when I was purchasing hardware for my sailboat . We both discovered we are novice sailors , he helped me with what I needed and asked if I had ever read Joshua Slocums' book: Sailing Around the World Alone . And indeed I had read it twice . We briefly marveled at the story and its adventure . John asked me if I listened to audio books and when untold him that I did he quite modestly told me of this novel, and casually added that he was the author and gave me a link to the book.

I just finished listening to the book . This is a book written from the heart . Provocative and very instructive on every day life , bravery, and honor .

Having met the author added a dimension to the story that provide a particular perspective that made me more curious and wanting to hear more about Archie's pain, suffering and humanity .

I hope John provides more of these insights through future characters he writes about .

All in all it was a good read , a contemporary story linked to history, ethnicity and honor in war and life

Inside the Mind of a Warrior

Would you listen to The Crucible of Achilles again? Why?

Yes because the author's use of language very eloquently tells several story lines and now that I know the big picture I want to listen for the nuances that weave each together.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Crucible of Achilles?

The flashbacks of the soldier's time in Afghanistan.

What aspect of Chiquito Joaquim Crastos performance would you have changed?

I didn't care for his portrayal of a female's voice. At times the story was difficult to hear. To me it sounded muffled.

If you could take any character from The Crucible of Achilles out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Archie's Popou because he seems to have greatly influenced who Achilles is.

Any additional comments?

This is a beautifully written story that reads like a Greek Tragedy, with the hero being an American Veteran of the Afghanistan War. The clarity of expression invokes a deep emotional response to one man's inner struggle with his attempt to reconcile all that he was with all that he now finds himself to be. Highly recommended. I wanted to listen to the whole story through and am looking forward to the next novel!

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Title: Only We Know

Author: Karen Perry

Narrator: Brian Fenton, Marcella Riordan, Niamh Daly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audio edition of Only We Know by Karen Perry, read by Brian Fenton, Niamh Daly and Marcella Riordan.

In 1982, on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday beneath the stifling heat of the midday sun, three children start a game that ends in tragedy.

Now, thirty years later, Nick, Luke and Katie are estranged, yet still bound together by the dark truth of what happened at the river that day.

Except some secrets won't stay buried.

And when Luke suddenly vanishes and the threatening messages begin, it seems that the strings of the past are tightening around them all. Because someone else knows what they did and is intent on seeking justice, at any cost....

Members Reviews:

Disappointed!

Any additional comments?

I feel so disappointed with this book, as I have loved the other work by this author. I have reached chapter 7 and find I must return it. Not only are the characters quite wooden and impossible to engage with, but the story just seems to ramble around aimlessly. Unfortunately, not only am I unable to enjoy it, but I'm simply experiencing it as irritating. There are too many good books out there for me to continue.

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Title: If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

Author: Judy Chicurel

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness - a novel in stories about a young woman and her town in the early 1970s.

It is the summer of 1972, and Katie has just turned 18. Katie and her town, Elephant Beach, are both on the verge: Katie of adulthood, Elephant Beach of gentrification - but not yet. Elephant Beach is still gritty, working-class, close-knit. And Katie spends her time smoking and drinking with her friends, dreaming about a boy just back from Vietnam who's still fighting a battle Katie can't understand.

Impeccably crafted and hugely affectionate, this novel in stories is a vivid portrait of a place whose conflicts - between mothers and daughters, men and women, haves and have-nots - reverberate to our own time.

Members Reviews:

... the town I grew up in so it was fun to see the parallels

It was loosely based on the town I grew up in so it was fun to see the parallels.

Beautiful Characters, Tragic Lives

Playwright and essayist Judy Chicurelâs debut novel is set in a slightly fictionalized Long Beach, New York in the summer of 1972. It consists of a series of related vignettes, all told first-person through the eyes of Katie, an eighteen-year-old, recent high school graduate.

Although she is a local, Katieâs observations of the decaying, blue collar remains of the former seaside resort town have the detachment of an anthropologistâs field notes. Surrounded by pervasive drug use, she limits herself to (copious) cigarettes, some alcohol, and the occasional joint. While nearly every chapter deals in some way with sex or its fallout, Katie is the consummate virgin. While her friends despair of never leaving âElephant Beachâ except through marriage or joining a cult, Katie is on her way to community college in the Fall.

Like the modern reader, Katie is somewhat removed from the spectacle of life in the working-class outskirts of New York City in the early Seventies. This allows her more freedom to analyze and critique the events she narrates for us, but it also adds an element of sterility to some of that analysis. It is as if we are looking at a photo album from forty years ago, in the company of the photographer, but she is not really in any of the pictures.

But what powerful images they are! Chicurelâs talent for shrewd, incisive characterization is exceptional. Although the novel starts off slowly, with hasty sketches of unsympathetic characters, it quickly moves on to more sophisticated stories about complex, real people wrestling with the harsh realities of the era. The shadows of racism, war, working poverty, and patriarchy loom over the dilapidated houses and ruined hotels of Elephant Beach, and Chicurel paints them for us in stark relief.

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Title: You Are the Love of My Life

Author: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father's death or the identity of their own father. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family's safety and stability become threatened.

Critic Reviews:

"...engaging tale and prose as fluid as Sue Miller's or Anna Quindlen's..." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Spare, elegant, and absolutely riveting, Shreve's fascinating look at our human longing for love and security unfolds like a thriller. So cancel those dinner plans - you'll want to keep reading." (People Magazine)

"There's a lot of light and shade in this beautifully paced novel - and some moving observations. ...a gem of a book. You will fall in love with these characters as they struggle to balance privacy with disclosure." - (The Washington Independent Review of Books)

Members Reviews:

This book was unmemorable.

Any additional comments?

The sad part about this book is when I came back to review it, I couldn't remember much about it :(.

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Title: Mountains of the Moon

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: I. J. Kay

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-12

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A highly original novel about a young woman's journey from shattered youth to self-discovery.

After 10 years in a London prison, Louise Adler (Lulu) is released with only a new alias to rebuild her life. Working a series of dead-end jobs, she carries a past full of secrets: a childhood marked by the violence and madness of her parents, followed by a reckless adolescence. From abandoned psychiatric hospitals to Edwardian-themed casinos, from a brief first love to the company of criminals, Lulu has spent her youth in an ever-shifting landscape of deceit and survival. But when she's awarded an unexpected settlement claim after prison, she travels to the landscape of her childhood imagination, the central African range known as the Mountains of the Moon. There, in the region's stark beauty, she attempts to piece together the fragments of her battered psyche.

Told in multilayered, hallucinatory flashbacks, Mountains of the Moon traces a traumatic youth and explores the journey of a young woman trying to transform a broken life into something beautiful. This dazzling novel from a distinctive new voice is sure to garner the attention of critics and listeners alike.

Members Reviews:

Wow!

If you could sum up Mountains of the Moon in three words, what would they be?

Wild ride.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mountains of the Moon?

The clarity of the final scene.

What about Elizabeth Sastres performance did you like?

Her reading of this difficult book is absolutely PERFECT! It's so so so right and consistent and intuitive--it's really a brilliant reading. She understood this book perfectly.

Better on the page than listened to

What did you like best about Mountains of the Moon? What did you like least?

The author has an ear for the poetic in the simplest of expressions. She's ambitious, and this is a consciously literary effort. It's working, but it asks a lot of the listener/reader. Important snippets of information go by in a sentence. It's stream of conscious, not as difficult as Ulysses, but requires that kind of attention. When I read from book, I found that I'd missed a lot of important lines when I'd only been listening. It's the kind of book that made me go back and re-read a paragraph once I'd got the gist of what was happening, and I only fully understood what was necessary on the second pass.

What didnt you like about Elizabeth Sastres performance?

I had to stop listening--she read dramatically, and I borrowed the book from the library to see if most of sentences had exclamation points. (They don't.) Part of the narrative is told in the first person voice of a child, and Sartre's performance of the child's voice was particularly difficult to listen to.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I don't think so. It's a dark world, full of piss, graffiti, violence and detritus. The characters are as dark as the setting.

Any additional comments?

I really wanted to like this one because of its poetry, and I respect the author, but the book didn't hold me.