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Title: The Knife

Author: Ross Ritchell

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This powerful, dark, and morally provocative debut novel about a US Special Forces unit operating in Afghanistan reads like No Easy Day meets Redeployment.

It's hot and getting hotter this summer in Afghanipakiraqistan - the preferred name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where the US Special Forces operate with little outside attention. Team leader Dutch Shaw is missing his late grandmother. She was the last link he had to civilian life, to any kind of world of innocence.

But there's no time to mourn. After two helicopters in a sister squadron are shot down, Shaw and his team know that they're going to be spun up and sent back in, deep into insurgent territory, where a mysterious new organization called al-Ayeelaa has been attracting high-value targets from across the region. As Shaw and his men fight their way closer to the source, mission by mission, they begin to realize that their way may have been prepared for them in advance - and not by a welcoming host.

The Knife is a debut novel of intense authenticity by a former soldier in a Special Operations Command direct-action team. As scenes of horseshoes and horseplay cut to dim Ambien-soaked trips in helicopters and beyond, Ritchell's story takes us deep beneath the testosterone-laced patter and into the lonelier, more ambivalent world of military life in the Middle East. The result is a fast-paced journey into darkness, a quintessential novel of the American wars of the 21st century.

Members Reviews:

Gripping read

The writing is cinematic and the story is intense. It's a fascinating subject that dives deep into the minds of what it must be like to kill in hope of finding peace.

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Title: The World, the Flesh & the Bishop

Subtitle: A Mountjoy Novel

Author: Elizabeth Aston

Narrator: Dawn Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published as Divine Comedy by Elizabeth Pewsey.

Who needs love? Not Quinta, who's made a good life for herself, bringing up her difficult young daughter, absorbed in her work as a violin maker. And she certainly doesn't need anybody to tell her how to live her life: She has it all sorted out, down to the last dot and comma. If it isn't on a list, it doesn't exist. When her old friend Lydia appears, jilted and angry, Quinta's orderly life is shaken and her past begins to catch up with her. Then Titus, an expert on chaos theory, comes sneaking into her life and heart, even though everyone knows chaos and lists don't go together. Sins, secrets and scandals stalk the precincts of Eyot Cathedral and the ancient, twisting city streets of Eyot. As Quinta heads into a maelstrom of change, will she be able to tear up her lists and go wherever the future will take her?

An entrancing, heartwarming, and witty novel about the merry-go-round of love. Escape into another world and delight in the lives of the wild Mountjoys of Mountjoy Castle and a host of fascinating characters. This is the England of P.G. Wodehouse and Downton Abbey, where wickedness and scandal lurk beneath the superb self-confidence of the upper classes.

Best-seller Elizabeth Aston's six Mountjoy novels were originally written under the name Elizabeth Pewsey and published by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder Headline.

Members Reviews:

not that great

I just finished this book, book 2 in the Mountjoy series. I started reading this series because I liked the Very English Mystery series the author wrote under the name Elizabeth Edmondson.

The Mountjoy series is disappointing so far. One problem is that there are no appealing characters except for two children in this second book. I found most of the characters distasteful, in contrast to the Very English Mystery series. I really had to slog through the beginning of the book until it got slightly more interesting.

The other problem is that this really isn't a series. The two books are set in the same town, but there is very little overlap of characters.

A problem unique to this book is that it is wrapped up very quickly at the end. Several characters have dramatic shifts in character and plans almost out of the blue.

I will at least start reading the next book, but this is a disappointing series compared to the Very English Mystery series. I wish there were more books in that series, as several plot lines were set up to continue.

A Joy to Read: the Mountjoy Saga is back!

This is the first of the series, and a satisfying read! Elizabeth Aston's flowing, elegant style is at her best in taking you to the cobbled streets of this charming, medieval Cathedral town in Northern England, quiet on the surface but bubbling underneath with love, sex, hate and violence...and of course, a lot of envy and gossip; and since this is England, an equal amount of humour and non-conformity. The three ladies, "the three Graces", who fix the flowers in the Cathedral are unforgettable gossiping biddies!

From the first pages you are transported into the life of the two main characters, two engaging young women in their early twenties, who are great friends yet totally different from each other.

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Titre: Billie

Auteur: Anna Gavalda

Narrateur: Lola Naymark

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-03-14

Éditeur: Audiolib

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Billie, ma Billie, cette princesse à l'enfance fracassée qui se fraye un chemin dans la vie avec un fusil de chasse dans une main et "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" dans l'autre est la plus jolie chose qui me soit arrivée depuis que j'écris." A. G.

©2013 le dilettante (P)2014 Audiolib

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Title: The Fire of Home

Author: Alexis Harrington

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A scandalous homecoming

When Amy Laytons family learned she planned to steal her sisters fiancé, Amy left home in disgrace. But in 1922, she returns to Powell Springs to escape the violent man she married. Despite the towns gossip, Amy is determined to rebuild her shattered life with the boardinghouse she inheritedand little else.

A terrible secret

Deputy sheriff Baxter Duncan senses theres more to Amy, his new landlady, than the rumors claim. Yet Bax respects her privacy. After all, a painful secret haunts him, too. And now that hes found a future in Powell Springs, he refuses to let his dark and wretched past destroy everything hes built.

A redemptive journey

As Amy struggles to make amends with her family, she finds a kindred spirit in Bax. But just as they begin to trust each other, a new visitor arrives in townand this person knows enough to ruin them both. After so much pain, can Amy and Bax still fight for their dreamsand win?

Members Reviews:

Wonderfully written and great performance

I really enjoyed this series. It captures the essences if what life truely was in the early 1900 s

I really appreciated do the struggles of what people during that era experience such as epidemics, poverty, social expectations, etc. but lost importantly, remorse and the power of forgiveness and second chances. The power of love for spouse, biological family members and the families one creates from friendships. Alexis Harrington has become one of my favorite authors.

Not quite a 5

If you have read or listened to the other books in this series then you pretty much know what to expect. Though the story kept me interested I felt any twist and turns were very short lived. Loved the narrator. The series as a whole is great.

Terrible narration and story

Could not listen to woman narrating!! Very cheesy last two hours. Uneventful story. Would not recommend this to anyone. Sorry.

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Title: Dance with the Devil: A Novel

Author: Kirk Douglas

Narrator: Kirk Douglas

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-14

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Hollywood can be a tough town, but its been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and although the movies he directs are more hot commerce than great art, he's respected throughout the film world. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe - until he meets Luba, a young sensuous call girl, whose mesmerizing sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.

Thought-provoking and original, riveting and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas.

Critic Reviews:

"Ranks up there with the best of Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz and Harold Robbins." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Who knew Kirk Douglas could write?

Someone had given me his other book and after reading it, I had to get this one to complete the story. Very well written mystery story.

Requested

This book was sent to a friend who requested it. He said he was told this was a good book and had already read another of Kirk Douglas's books and like it very much.

WOW!

Great shipping time, great book! The book was a little worn, but that's to be expected with an ex-library edition. Love it!

Two Stars

dirty

A must read book by Kirk Douglas.

A wonderful twitter. Mr. Douglas has a wonderful imagination, well developed characters and a great plot line. Dance with the devil is wonderful, you will enjoy the second book by Mr. Douglas, The Guy from is just as great.

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Title: Queen of Dreams

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrator: Deepti Gupta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity.

Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dreamteller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhihas her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her best friend, Belle, own. But greater challenges are to come. When a national tragedy turns her world upside down and Rakhi needs her mothers strength and wisdom more than ever, she loses her in a freak car accident. But uncovering her mothers dream journals allows Rakhi to discover her mother's long-kept secrets and sacrifices - and ultimately to confront her fears, forge a new relationship with her father, and revisit Sonny's place in her heart.

Members Reviews:

Too metaphysical

I didn't identify with any of these characters. The story line was so so, but I really didn't like all the metaphysical weirdness. I also got tired of listening to the narrator's interpretation of the little girl's voice which was a constant whine. Not this author's best work in my opinion.

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Title: History of the Rain

Author: Niall Williams

Narrator: Jennifer McGrath

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. Thats how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories - and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls have the oral) and through her own writing (with its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left behind, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while shes still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.

Members Reviews:

Ruined by narration

I'm about half way through this beautifully written novel which is superbly crafted, poignant and loaded with vivid characters and memorable imagery. The writing makes the novel's Booker short listing entirely understandable. However it is unlikely I will reach the end of the book. I have persisted with the narration for as long as I think I'm able. Sadly the narrator seems to miss the tone of the writing by a thousand miles; presenting the listener with Jimmy Cricket and the land of the bogs and the little people. Wish I'd spent the money on the paper version though that presents it's own issues whilst driving the hour to work.

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Title: Schizophrenic Connections

Author: Michael Hedrick

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Rob Black is a college junior who, through a strange and debilitating series of events, has come to believe that he is a prophet. Rob is actually in the beginning stages of schizophrenia, a serious chronic illness that will, in time, begin to define who he is. In this account of his initial episode and descent into delusion, he will come face-to-face with what it means to, not only exist on the fringes of society, but to change the lives of others who exist there as well. Based on a true story.

Members Reviews:

Sobering window on mental illness

This book drew me in on page one and kept my attention until the last page. The author writes eloquently about an episode in his character, Rob's, life that, if it had happened to me, I would have trouble even remembering, let alone explaining in such detail. His story takes us across the country and back, as he sets about alternately doggedly pursuing his perceived 'mission' as a prophet and bringer of peace to the world, while questioning his loosening grip on his sanity. The writing is lean, and the book is fairly short, but it's written in such a way that allows the reader to become submerged in Rob's descent into mental illness, and his fear and confusion as he struggles with not only his own sanity, but with a world indifferent to his struggle. It's an indictment of not only our failing mental health care system, but our society's tendency to ignore that which we don't understand or find unpleasant. Mike Hedrick, the author, has lived with mental illness for years, lending an authentic voice to his character. Having experienced something similar myself, I instantly recognized the honesty of Mike's writing. I'll watch for more of his work in the future.

very interesting read

I read it straight through as soon as I bought it. Its great to see how other people's minds work, especially when they are a little off, like me :) Highly recommend

Four Stars

Very intriguing

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Title: Blind Curves

Subtitle: A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself

Author: Linda Crill

Narrator: Tamara Marston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After months of following one-size-fits-all advice for a fifty-seven-year-old widow, Linda Crill is still miserable, until she makes a rebellious spur-of-the-moment decision: she trades her corporate suits for motorcycle leathers and commits herself to a 2,500-mile road trip down Americas Pacific Northwest coast on a Harley. The problemshe doesnt know how to ride and has only thirty days to learn.Four short weeks later, Linda joins two men and a woman for a white-knuckled, exhilarating road trip along the west coast from Vancouver, Canada, to the wine country of Mendocino, California. Along the way she encounters washed-out mountain roads, small town hospitality, humming redwoods, and acceptance from gentle souls who happen to have tattoos and piercings.By heading into the unknownthe blind curveshe faces her fears, tests old beliefs, and discovers not only a broader horizon of possibilities to use in building the next phase of her life, but also the fuel to make it happen.Funny, irreverent, and extraordinarily honest, its the perfect read for people looking for ways to reinvent themselves, and anyone asking: "What now?"

Members Reviews:

not a motorcycle story

had it moments but was repetitive and just annoying at times. the narrator got irritating with time. it was one blind curve that got predictable.

Get in touch with the feminine biker in you.

Where does Blind Curves rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Near the top.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Well... the writer herself.

Which character as performed by Tamara Marston was your favorite?

The Person the book is about, the author

Who was the most memorable character of Blind Curves and why?

UGH.... the author.

Any additional comments?

This is a great book about overcoming your internal fears, obstacles, hang-ups and finding out who you are and what you are made of. Linda Crill did the unthinkable to most and took on a very brave task. To learn how to ride a motorcycle and then take off on a trip of thousands of miles as a novice is impressive. Doing all this while rediscovering herself and coming to peace with her life. Inspirational to say the least even for a veteran rider.

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Title: Dog Gone, Back Soon

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Nick Trout

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Dr. Cyrus Mills returned home after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary practice, the last thing he wanted was to stay in Eden Falls, Vermont. However, the previously reclusive veterinarian pathologist quickly found that he actually enjoyed treating animals and getting to know the eccentric residents of the tiny provincial town - especially an alluring waitress named Amy.

So Cyrus is now determined to make Bedside Manor thrive. Not an easy goal, given that Healthy Paws, the national veterinary chain across town, will stop at nothing to crush its mom-and-pop competitor. To top it off, Cyrus finds himself both the guardian of a very unique orphaned dog and smack in the middle of serious small-town drama.

Critic Reviews:

"Animal lovers can unite in heartfelt agreement on the delightful charm, drama, and humor of Trout's follow-up." (Library Journal, Starred Review)

Members Reviews:

I hope there will be many more

Where does Dog Gone, Back Soon rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Very high--top 10% at least.

What did you like best about this story?

The whole combo--Dr. House meets James Herriot meets Murder She Wrote meets movie starring Hugh Grant. Beautifully voiced.

Have you listened to any of Peter Berkrots other performances before? How does this one compare?

Not sure, other than the first of this series. Both of these great.

If you could take any character from Dog Gone, Back Soon out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Cyrus. If he weren't fictional, I would wrestle Amy for him.

Cyrus, come back soon!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, but I would suggest they read the first book in the series first. This is another warm and funny listen. Great characters (of all species).

What other book might you compare Dog Gone, Back Soon to and why?

I think the author said somewhere that he was hoping to pay homage to the James Herriott books. In my opinion, he succeeds.

Have you listened to any of Peter Berkrots other performances before? How does this one compare?

Only the previous book in the series. I think he does a great job and will happily listen to him narrating something else.

Who was the most memorable character of Dog Gone, Back Soon and why?

Stash!

Any additional comments?

Sometimes I like a book to challenge me, sometimes I like to learn something, and sometimes I just want to disappear into another world for a little while. This book took me away from my troubles for a little while, and I really look forward to the next installment.