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Title: Sunflower

Author: Rebecca West

Narrator: Lily Dorment

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-timeand marriedlover, Lord Essington, a brilliant and intense man occupied with more intellectual thoughts. Eager for a more rewarding experience, Sunflower must decide whether another great man, the Australian Francis Pitt, will offer a more traditional relationship and happiness.

Written during Wests own psychoanalysis and never finished, Sunflower ponders topics of the power struggle between the sexes, and a womans freedom to determine her romantic destiny. Drawn heavily from Wests own relationships with H.G. Wells and Lord Beaverbrook, this roman à clef gives a glimpse of the authors own struggle to find a satisfying relationship.

Dame Rebecca West, DBE (1892 1983) was an author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific author in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She met H.G. Wells in 1913, after her provocatively damning review of his novel Marriage prompted him to invite her to lunch. They fell in love, though Wells was married at the time, and their affair lasted ten years producing a son. In 1947 Time magazine called West, indisputably the worlds number one woman writer and in 1954 Kenneth Tynan described her as, the best journalist alive. She was made CBE in 1949, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British letters.

Members Reviews:

Characters brought to life, made real

What did you love best about Sunflower?

I loved how the three main characters 'came to life' via the story-telling. While nothing much happened in terms of dramatic action during the story, the engaging character development kept me listening. I could not stop and listened to the whole thing relatively quickly. I was not familiar with the story nor the author before purchasing "Sunflower," but I would hand it to the performer for keeping me interested and listening!

Who was your favorite character and why?

I don't want to give anything away, but there was one of the less prominent main characters (one of the men) who I felt was a compelling character sketch. Despite the performer being a female, I did enjoy how this particular character was characterized - I found him to be very sympathetic and was 'rooting' for him throughout.

What does Lily Dorment bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I seriously don't think I could have completed this book if I were just reading it, but Ms. Dorment kept the characters alive through the length of the book, which was no easy feat given the depth of the character development and the limited actual action. Her interpretation of the main female character and two main male characters was believable, engaging, enjoyable, and sympathetic, without being over-dramatized or over-interpreted. I'd never heard anything of her's before (and I'm a frequent Audible listener!) but I did really enjoy her performance and would absolutely purchase her next release (if one comes!).

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Title: Creatures of Habit

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Jill McCorkle

Narrator: Claire Slemmer, Allyson Johnson, Allison McLemore, Lauren Fortgang, Margaret Daly, Holly Fielding, Elizabeth Evans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Jill McCorkle's new collection of 12 short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us - flawed, clueless, endearing. These stories are also "animaled" with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile - also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans share with the so-called lesser species? Looking for the answer, she takes us back to her fictional home town of Fulton, North Carolina, to meet a broad range of characters facing up to the double-edged sword life offers hominids.

The insight with which McCorkle tells their stories crackles with wit, but also with a deeper - and more forgiving - wisdom than ever before. In "Billy Goats", Fulton's herd of seventh graders cruises the summer nights, peeking into parked cars, maddening the town madman. In "Monkeys", a widow holds her husband's beloved spider monkey close, along with his deepest secrets. In "Dogs", a single mother who works for a veterinarian compares him - unfavorably - with his patients. In "Snakes", a seasoned wife sees what might have been a snake in the grass and decides to step over it. And, in the exquisite final story, "Fish", a grieving daughter remembers her father's empathy for the ugliest of all fishes. The success behind Jill McCorkle's short stories - and her novels - is, as one reviewer noted, her skill as an archaeologist of the absurd, an expert at excavating and examining the comedy of daily life (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Yes, and also the tragedy.

The complete list of narrators includes Claire Slemmer, Allyson Johnson, Allison McLemore, Lauren Fortgang, Margaret Daly, Holly Fielding, Elizabeth Evans, and Gabra Zackman.

Members Reviews:

So depressing I'd rather open a vein and slowly bleed to death than finish this

What the hell! Does the publisher own shares in Prozac? I got through five stories and while they were well written and performed I simply couldn't take anymore gloom and despair. I want my money back. Can I return this?

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Título: La Cruz del Diablo

Autor: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Narrador: Emilio Pastor, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 36 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-01-13

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

En las montañas de Bellver había una cruz que todos los turistas visitaban para escuchar las leyendas que se contaban sobre la ella. Se contaba en la región que el señor del Segre era famoso por su crueldad y por la armadura que siempre llevaba consigo. Al morir, su armadura cobró vida propia, para el espanto de los campesinos, por lo que tuvieron que intervenir los soldados que tomaron la decisión de quemar la armadura, llena o vacía, como estuviera, y cuando en la hoguera se empezaron a oir gritos de dolor...

Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increíble experiencia inmersiva que hace disfrutar aún más, si cabe, la obra de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Four Stars

Buen libro, libros del zorro rojo saca ediciones geniales siempre.

Good book

La cruz del diablo is a good novel to practice reading Spanish. I enjoyed reading and studying it in my college Spanish Film and Literature class.

"This legend transports us to that tormented and threatening world common to Romanticism..."

"This legend transports us to that tormented and threatening world common to Romanticism, in which Becquer moves with familiarity and mastery. The suggestive narrative voice invites us to enjoy a story with the flavor of the past, in a magnificently realized setting, which produces a shiver which owes as much to pleasure as to fear. Javier Serrano's impressive illustrations complement the text appropriately with his solid and ominous vision." This book was one of two works of this author chosen to be included in "The New Essential Guide to Spanish Reading" which is published by America Reads Spanish: a campaign aimed to increase the use and reading of the Spanish language through the thousands of libraries, schools and book stores in the US. This is as reviewed in this definitive guide.

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Title: A Rather English Marriage

Author: Angela Lambert

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Roy Southgate and Reginald Conynghame-Jervis have nothing in common but their loneliness and their wartime memories. Roy, a retired milkman and Reggie, a former RAF Squadron Leader, are widowed on the same day. To assuage their grief, the vicar arranges for Roy to move in with Reggie as his unpaid manservant. To their surprise, they form a strange alliance, based on obedience, need and the strangeness of single life. Then Reggie meets Liz, a vibrant but near-bankrupt woman of irresistible appeal, while Roy and his son's family grow gradually closer. Marriage, it seems, however far from ideal, can be a great protector against isolation.

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) grew up in Hove and London. She was encouraged by her father, who sadly died from a sudden heart attack when she was sixteen, to read Classics from a young age. She attended Holloway College in London to study Classics and wrote her first novel Delores in 1911. Compton-Burnett suffered several losses after her father - her closest brother died three years later, three more of her younger siblings and her mother passed away by the time she was 35, something she rarely spoke about, but constantly visited in her novels. Compton-Burnett published twenty novels. However, the first of her works to use her mature and original style was published when she was forty, in 1925. Compton-Burnett's fiction is often said to be Edwardian in setting - the domestic occurrences in large households. She never married and lived in London as companion to Margaret Jourdain. She was named a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1967.

Members Reviews:

This is an excellent story. I love anything English so for me ...

This is an excellent story. I love anything English so for me it was a true delight plus the story has a great moral to it as we age and what happens to our lives. I would highly recommend this book.

Five Stars

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Title: Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow

Author: Dedra Johnson

Narrator: A. Jai Simone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Despite being a straight-A student and voracious reader, eight-year old Sandrine Miller is treated as little more than a servant by her mother, who forces Sandrine to clean house, do chores and take care of her younger half-sister, Yolanda. On top of the despair of her life at home, Sandrine must confront growing up against the harshness of life in 1970s-era New Orleans, where men in cars follow her home from school and she is ostracized because she is a light-skinned black girl. The only refuge Sandrine has against her bleak world is spending summers with her beloved grandmother, Mamalita. After Mamalitas death, Sandrine realizes that she must escape from her mother, from New Orleans, from everything she has known, if she is to have any kind of future. In the tradition of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow is a brilliant debut from an important new African-American voice in literary fiction.

A native and current resident of New Orleans, Dedra Johnson received her MFA from the University of Florida, where she was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow was a runner-up for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award in 2006.

Critic Reviews:

"Reading Dedra Johnson's Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow, I was fully in the presence of the mind, heart and soul of a richly rendered, fascinating fictional character. I knew I was also in the presence of the brillian voice and sensibility of a major new American writer. This is an important novel by a true artist." (Robert Olen Butler)

Dedra Johnson has caught something wonderful in Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow. She writes brilliantly about childhood, New Orleans, the intricacies of a vexed family life. Sandrine is a remarkable debut novel that will catch your heart." (Frederick Barthelme)

Members Reviews:

I hate reading, but I go to college and I am

I hate reading... I'm a college student... ive been forced to read many of books by crazy teachers over the course of my life. but this book is actually decent. so if u hate reading like me, know that this book is a little less painful than the others

You will love this Performance, Because I did!

This was a great book, and I think the Performance was OUTSTANDING! A. Jai Simone I love you work. I only discovered this book because I desired to hear more from you, after listening to "the Man in 3B" by Carl Weber. I love the way you made Sandrine come alive. The author does well with keeping Sandrine innocence. I really expected to find out that Charlene was NOT Sandrine's mother because of the way she treated Sandrine. I found myself thinking about Sandrine even when I wasn't listening. I found myself telling others about Sandrine. I will be sharing this book with others!

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Titel: Die Blendung

Autor:: Elias Canetti

Erzähler: Peter Simonischek, Felix von Manteuffel, Libgart Schwarz

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-12-13

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Canettis Figurenpanoptikum entfaltet im Hörspiel eine Intensität, die den Kopf nicht mehr verlassen wird.

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Title: Underground Time

Author: Delphine de Vigan, Goerge Miller (translator)

Narrator: David Bellerive

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Every day Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train, to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do.

Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle, and, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city.

Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world.

Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move toward an inevitable meeting.

Critic Reviews:

"Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence" (Lire)

Members Reviews:

Excellent writing doesn't make this book less tedious but it does harness you to it to the end.

If a reader wants to be uplifted or inspired, Underground Time is not a book to take onâunless perhaps you are an aspiring writer. Certainly this author is an exceptional talent, capable of teaching the merits of mood and complexity. For example, with a small scene in the beginning, involving a fortune teller, she plants a seed of hope for the reader and the characters. The amazing part is that seed grows up to and including the end, in spite of all evidence to the contrary.

As the story unfolds, two primary characters are struggling with unrelated emotional circumstances. Both continue to be plowed under by their misery ( chapter after chapter, after chapter, after chapter). The woman is being mentally and professionally beaten down by an arrogant boss. In fact, he is devious and evil at heart. The male primary is a doctor practicing under a social health system that pays little but demands much. His not-so-romantic partner likewise invests little in him. As good and decent,

hardworking people, I liked these two characters. But they are depressingly slow to act in their own behalf.

Lives of quiet desperation

This book has echoes of Camus' The Stranger in the isolation of its two main characters, Mathilde and Thibeault; there is also a Kafkaesque quality to Mathilde's predicament. The rigors of life in a modern cosmopolitan city--from one's strategy for riding the subway and driving through the streets, to the frustrations of computer malfunctions, both random and intentional--are very well captured in this novel. The Metro serves as an overarching metaphor for the dehumanization and isolation that its characters deal with every day. While I was not surprised by the ending, it did seem as though the story, with its sense of rising tension and building toward a climax, perhaps should have ended differently (though I'm not sure how); some readers will likely feel short-changed.

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Title: Harriet Hume

Author: Rebecca West

Narrator: Lucy Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Of all the women he had ever known she was the most ethereal. Loving her was like swathing oneself with a long scarf of spirit. Harriet Hume, musical, mystical and whimsical, is the very essence of femininity- both princess and trollop.

Her beautiful room in a dilapidated Kensington House is the setting for this love story, she herself an extension of the beauty which surrounds her. Here amidst trees and lilacs, Arnold Condorex comes to be loved. And love him Harriet does, beyond reason.

But Condorex is a man bent on power and Harriet is a woman with powers of quite another kind. In ruthlessly pursuing his ambition, Harriet- his better self- must be cast aside...How Harriet slowly triumphs over Condorex is gradually revealed in this beautifully imagined fantasy.

Hariett Hume, Rebecca West's third novel, recounts the victory of love and the love of beauty over man's eternal quest for dominance and destruction. Written in a style as elegaic as the London it also celebrates, Rebecca West's wisdom, imagination and wit are triumphantly brought together in this, her third novel.

Dame Rebecca West, DBE (1892 1983) was an author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific author in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She met H.G. Wells in 1913, after her provocatively damning review of his novel Marriage prompted him to invite her to lunch.

They fell in love, though Wells was married at the time, and their affair lasted ten years producing a son.

In 1947 Time magazine called West, indisputably the worlds number one woman writer and in 1954 Kenneth Tynan described her as, the best journalist alive. She was made CBE in 1949, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British letters.

Critic Reviews:

"One must conclude that the greatest living example of a woman... who has been both a thinker and an artist, and who has managed over some sixty years to express a spacious sense of reality, is Rebecca West." (Samuel Hynes, TLS )

Members Reviews:

The central plot is fine but...overly florid and wordy.

I think I was supposed to like this book. I really tried. I do not think I got the point of Ms West's Style.

The plot is fairly straight forward. Harriet Hume is a beautiful professional pianist. Her lover is Arnold Condorex. Arnold is what the English would call a striver. Born into middle class or less, he is determined, At All Costs to be not merely rich and powerful, but accepted by those born to be rich and powerful.

His great skill is as a negotiator (one who finds compromises). Because he chooses his career over Everything including his love for Harriet Hume (she is most often referred to by both names), he will over time compromise every value, marring into wealth not for love, building his career on an ethical compromise and so forth until he compromises one time too often. Ultimatly he finds himself financially ruined, livening in a loveless home, despised by even his man servant.

Harriet will develope magical abilities and will know his every misstep, from leaving her for his career to the final deal that will mean his total destruction. She will reappear in his life at each critical moment and try to warn him. He will always chose to act against her warnings.

My speculation:

Rebecca West had been a lover to H. G. Wells.

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Title: The Submission

Author: Amy Waldman

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name - and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's.

The memorial's designer is an enigmatic, ambitious architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself - as unknowable as he is gifted. In the fight for both advantage and their ideals, all will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy.

In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman's cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure their perspectives. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole, The Submission is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new talent.

Critic Reviews:

"A masterful debut...Waldman unspools her story with the truth-bound grit of a seasoned journalist and the elegance of a born novelist." (

Entertainment Weekly)

"Gripping, deeply intelligent...panoramic in scope but thrillingly light on its feet.... [A] dazzling tapestry of a grieving city." (

Marie Claire)

"Addictively readable.... Not unlike

The Wire's David Simon...Waldman has an eye for the less-sound-bite-worthy but crucial ways in which ideology and influence make their imprint on the world." (

Vogue)

Members Reviews:

Well written, thought provoking and gripping

It's one of the best books I've read this year. Set within the familiar post 9/11 trauma, the dilemma of a Muslim, albeit an American, winning the design contest of what memorializes what was lost at Ground Zero seems emotionally real. Characters in all their human frailties are realistically shown. Prejudices, ambition, manipulation -- all play a part in the unfolding tragedy that changes life direction for many of the players. It's a stirring, disturbing scenario that makes you think and sorrow over how whole groups of people, beliefs, and religions can be misunderstood and vilified. The line near the end about how we -- how America self corrects was hopeful.

Shadows of 9/11: Islam in America

Started slow, but ended up as a compelling story, as well as an interesting examination of some of the issues and emotions sparked by 9/11. Set two years after 9/11, the novel posits an architectural competition set up to choose the design for a memorial at the site. The entries are anonymous, and when the envelope is opened -- lo and behold, the winner is a Muslim. An American Muslim, yes, but still a Muslim.

The novel looks at the reaction to this event from many different perspectives -- those of politicos, those of relatives of the 9/11 victims, those of American Muslims of several different stripes, and those of the architect himself.

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Title: Deviant Behavior

Author: Mike Sager

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Jonathan Seede is the picture of Washington, DC, respectability, an urban pioneer with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the towns most esteemed newspaper. But 10 blocks from the White House, on the notorious 14th Street strip, a war is raging over deviant behavior. And Seede is on the front lines, deep into a secret freelance project thats taking him to places where most people would never dare to go.

As he descends into an inferno of repressed urges and human frailties, Seedes journey plays out against a brilliantly realized portrait of the nations capital, featuring pimps and hustlers, an accidental hooker, an honest cop, a storefront prophet/marijuana dealer, a beautiful teenage runaway, a crack-addicted music legend, an A-list gay activist, and a diminutive billionaire who is searching for the answers to lifes greatest questions in a crystal skull.

The first novel from best-selling journalist Mike Sager, Deviant Behavior is a mad, vivid, and daring romp through a society in crisis, and the story of what happens when one frustrated father decides to just say yes.

Members Reviews:

Fabulous!

I feel as if I write this so much but this is the first time I've listened to anything by this author. I'm not exactly sure what to think about this story. I find that Paul Heitsch did his job and kept me engrossed.

Mike Sager added so many characters to this story, a reporter, a gay activist, law enforcers, teenage runaway, a billionaire, pimps, hookers, drug dealer, and so many more characters. The story was good but I thought it had too many characters.

Jonathon Seede is a respectable man, with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the town's esteemed newspaper company. But a war is raging blocks over from the White House, deviant behavior. Seede finds himself right on the front line by taking on a freelance project and it's taking him to places where most would never dare go.

I've heard that Mike Sager does a perfect job writing non fiction and even winning awards for his stories. This story is just as good as his other non fiction stories. However, I feel Mike lacks in places. Mike does create some humor and the characters are superb. It's one hell of a page turner if you read.

I've listened to Paul Heitsch narration of stories before and I really enjoy his narrating skills. I honestly don't think I would've enjoyed this story as much as I did if not for Paul's narration of the story. Paul does an excellent job with his performance of this story. Every time I listen to something that Paul has narrated he takes my breath away. He does a superb job changing accents. He makes you feel as if you're there watching the story unfold. I really enjoy Paul's narrative skills. I highly recommend that you give this story a chance. I think you'll enjoy it as much as I have.