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Título: La enfermedad [Disease]

Autor: Alberto Barrera Tyzska

Narrador: Jesús Manuel Rois Frey

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-09-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Ernesto Durán sabe que está enfermo. Aunque los resultados clínicos digan lo contrario, desde que se ha separado de su mujer y vive solo, padece todos los síntomas de un mal que, según sospecha, puede ser mortal. Su obsesión va más allá de la mera hipocondría, y tiene la certeza de que sólo hay un médico que puede salvarlo. Pero el elegido, el doctor Javier Miranda, en esos mismos momentos se enfrenta a una tragedia personal: un diagnóstico irrefutable que señala que su padre tiene cáncer, y le quedan pocas semanas por vivir. Mientras Durán necesita desesperadamente hablar de su caso y de él mismo, el doctor Miranda se siente rehén del silencio, es incapaz de hacer con su padre lo que siempre ha hecho con sus pacientes: decir la verdad. La vivencia de la enfermedad en estas dos personas que ocupan posiciones tan distintas, el médico que sabe acerca de la vida y de la muerte y no quiere o no puede hablar, y el enfermo de angustia que sólo sabe que su sufrimiento no le deja vivir, es la columna vertebral que sostiene a esta hermosa novela, madura, adulta, reflexiva y refinada, que nos susurra desde su primera página algo que está en nuestra naturaleza: vivir mata. Un libro notable, escrito en un registro inusual en nuestra lengua, que mezcla lo profundo con lo veloz, que apela a las emociones pero también a la inteligencia del lector. Desde distintas historias, conmovedoras, tiernas, divertidas y trágicas, Alberto Barrera Tyszka nos propone una versión de la existencia que asume todos sus goces, pero también su fragilidad.

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Opiniones de los miembros:

Probably the best I've ever read

I mean probably the best Latin-American book I've ever read. This is why I read it for the third time. Written with immense wisdom and comprehension, cleverly paced, very readable and enjoyable, La enfermedad gives you a clear view on dying and being ill. What a pity audiomol doesn't release other novels from Tyzska! The only irritating point is the overdose of quotations, but if you take them as parts of an essay novel, they fit all right into the texture. Well, this was a surprising discovery from the far, far Venezuela... Congratulations!

Highly recommended, language level between intermediate and upper with some local words. Fantastic!

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Título: Labios ensangrentados: relatos [Bloody Lips: Stories]

Autor: Pedro Menchén

Narrador: Juan Manuel Martínez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-09-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 4 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

En Labios ensangrentados, Menchén se centra en una serie de narraciones cortas de carácter urbano y con un tono inquietante y emotivo en las que los personajes se enfrentan, a causa del azar o de circunstancias inesperadas, de forma brutal a la necesidad de replantear su aparente y supuesta normalidad. En este volumen se puede encontrar la historia de una joven pareja que ve cómo su vida cambia radicalmente por una discusión nimia, o la de una adolescente sensual, que mucha gente confunde con una prostituta, y que una noche coge un taxi que le llevará a vivir la aventura más desconcertante de su vida, o la de dos amigos que alquilan un par de motos para divertirse una tarde y que finalmente acaban embarcados en una búsqueda de tintes metafísicos.

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Title: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Author: Mohammed Hanif

Narrator: Nimra Bucha

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Only weeks since her release from Borstal, Alice is a candidate for the position of junior nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments. With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice brings support to the thousands of patients littering the hospitals corridors and concrete courtyard. In the process, she attracts the attention of a lovesick patient, Teddy Bunt, apprentice to the nefarious Gentleman Squad of the Karachi police.

They fall in love; Teddy with sudden violence, Alice with cautious optimism. Their love is unexpected, but the consequences are not.

Members Reviews:

Decent second novel

Wonderfully read by Nimra Bucha. The author's trademark wit is brilliantly used to address vitally important topics including the treatment of minorities and the status of women in Pakistani society. Hanif's first novel was however superior.

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Title: The Legacy of Eden

Author: Nelle Davy

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: Harlequin Books S.A.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than 3,000 acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name - no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathaways and the once-prosperous farm.

Now the last inhabitant of the decaying home has died alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anything to do with the farm, the land or the memories.

Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's oncegreat name.

Back at Aurelia, Meredith must confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway family... and her own part in their mottled history.

Members Reviews:

What's in a name?

For seventeen years, Meredith Hathaway has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But when she feels compelled to return to the three thousand acre family home in Iowa, known as Aurelia, she is forced to face her own past - a childhood burdened with deceit, abuse, alcoholism, dysfunction, guilt and a misguided belief that the Hathaways were a family to be revered and envied. For Meredith, the memories of the legacy that destroyed her family must be confronted in order to move beyond her own part in their sordid history.

Not up my alley.

I couldn't get into the story although I gave it good try. Was sorry I purchased it. I should have sampled it first.

Too many things wrong with this one!

This is a book written by a born-and-bred Londoner about a multi-generational dysfunctional family in Iowa, and truly, she did not do it well.

The main problem with this book for me is that it is so ridiculously MELODRAMATIC. I counted five face-"slappings" or more violent whamo-o's to the face, and then I quit counting; it seemed that every dysfunctional encounter between the characters ended with one, as if the author could not conceive of another way to express violent emotion....

Except, of course, to make almost every character some sort of WAY over-the-top villain.... the kind that would, yes, appear in an old-time melodrama where the audience entertains itself by booing and hissing them. The main characters are a greedy, manipulative adulteress, two or three unpleasant drunks, a woman who enjoys kinky sex with multiple partners, a girl who runs away instead of helping her sister (to whom something very unpleasant is happening),child abandoners, a wife torturer, a rapist, various haters, schemers, manipulators. Of the characters we might call "good," mostly they just stand by and watch the villains emote and chew the scenery, just like Pearl Pureheart in a melodrama. Many books have this kind of character, but OVER-THE-TOP is the watchword here. If any of these villainous characters had mustaches, you can bet they were twirling them, even if the author does not report it.

Another problem is that the setting never comes alive. The farm, Aurelia, is supposed to be the centerpiece of the book, but we get no sense of it at all as a piece of land...

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Title: A Dubious Legacy

Author: Mary Wesley

Narrator: Anna Massey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife. On the threshold she gives him a black eye and retires straight to bed where she remains, apart from the occasional malevolent outburst, for the rest of her life.

Over the years, two young couples become regular if uneasy houseguests, listening, speculating, keeping a watchful eye on Margarets door until finally, piecing together the gossip, the rumours and the mystery, they find themselves tangled in the web of Henrys life.

Members Reviews:

Absultely dreadful hung in there for ten chapters

Would you try another book written by Mary Wesley or narrated by Anna Massey?

This is the first time I've written a bad review but this was dreadful. Anna Massey reads all her books like an old black and white movie, sometimes it works but after a while it just grates. This story was fragmented and unbelievable and sooooo boring.

What was most disappointing about Mary Wesleys story?

There wasn't no real story to speak of and it was very boring

How did the narrator detract from the book?

By trying to read it like an old movie, clipped tones and monotone expressionless voice.

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

Boredom

Any additional comments?

I have an eclectic taste in books and will try anything but just couldn't stick with this one. I have read a couple of her other books and quite enjoyed them.

Every character has a story

This is just what you would hope for, and expect from Mary Wesley. Every character is fleshed out and explained fully. The story is set post World War II and centres around the lovelife of Henry Tillotson and Cotteshaw, the house and farm he owns. I was pleased that Calypso is also part of the story, having loved her from the Camomile Lawn.

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Título: Decencia [Decency]

Autor: Álvaro Enrigue

Narrador: Joan Mora

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-23-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

En Decencia, dos aspirantes a combatientes clandestinos hacen estallar una bomba en el consulado de los Estados Unidos en Guadalajara. Durante su trabajoso escape se encontrarán el pasado que los puso donde están, pero también el futuro que los espera (gane o pierda su causa). Decencia es una novela sobre la topografía del tiempo pero también una historia escrita con sudor y saliva. Un viejo es secuestrado por un par de revolucionarios en los años setenta. A un niño le estalla en la cara la Revolución mexicana de principios del siglo XX. El viejo recuerda al niño que fue; y el niño, al viejo que será. Decencia celebra y parodia las ambiciones de totalidad de las grandes narrativas latinoamericanas. Es al mismo tiempo un bildungsroman subvertido por el caos de la experiencia recobrada y una road novel que dura cien años. Si algo ha distinguido los libros de Enrigue es la violencia con que replantea las fronteras de lo novelístico bajo una sola consigna: someter al tiempo inexorablemente rígido y lineal a la lógica mucho más plástica y flexible del lenguaje.

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Title: Emma's Table: A Novel

Author: Philip Galanes

Narrator: Laurie King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-12

Publisher: HarperCollins

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the FitzCoopers auction house, the disgraced media darling knows exactly what she wants: an antique dining table. What she gets is a chance to set things right.

Fresh from a yearlong stretch in prison, Emma finds her life just as she left it - filled with glittering business successes, bruising personal defeats, rolling television cameras, and awkward Sunday dinners at home. She needs a clean slate - a second chance that might be provided by two unlikely saviors: Benjamin Blackman, a terminally charming social worker and Emma's part-time assistant, and one of Benjamin's most heartbreaking wards, an overweight little girl from Queens named Gracie.

Members Reviews:

A Place At The Table

The central character in Philip Galanes' second novel EMMA'S TABLE is Emma Sutton, a sixty-two-year-old "tarnished queen orf interior design," who is a household name and media darling, because of regular appearances on the Oprah Show but who has recently served a term in federal prison for income tax evasion. Although a huge success professionally in spite of her recent incarceration, she needs work in her personal life: for starters her relationships with her ex-husband Bobby who has recently moved back in with her, and their thirty-something-year-old daughter Cassy. In a word Emma is the high priestess of detail-- and Mr. Galanes gives us dozens of examples-- but she usually totally misses the big picture.

Add a gentle public school social worker Benjamin who is Emma's assistant on weekends, his vegan girlfriend Melora who teaches yoga, a mother with the burden of an obese nine-year-old daughter, a Japanese diplomat in search of a Nakashima table and a pet trainer to the mix, then invite them all to an elegant dinner, and you have a delicious comedy as light as a chocolate mousse and just as sweet.

Mr. Galanes' prose is easy and his humor gentle with practically a metaphor per page, most of which work very well. Cassy has "all whippet-sharp features," the overweight Gracie is "as wide as a penny that had been left on the train tracks" and is a child who loves colors and the "prettiest shade of yellow she can imagine of course is like a stick of butter." Emma, the always perfectionist, in a quite funny scene ruins a dinner because she has to cook too many vegetables with a roast to accommodate the vegan and throws the cooking time off. And in the most gentle and cleverest of scenes, Emma rearranges all of her husband's Bob's furniture when she discovers his hidden apartment.

As we expect in a comedy, in the end we like all these less-than-perfect characters, including Emma.

Smart, Sharp and Witty

I read voraciously, and was surprised to discover how very much I enjoyed this novel. It positively sings. Honestly, the prose pace is right in step with the story. Additionally, both theme and characterization are fully realized. Truly, this book is a well-written and thought-provoking look at a tranche de vie, i.e., New York social class and its effects on those who live in the city. This book is a permanent addition to my library (and that's my highest encomium).

Deeper read

When I first picked up this book, I thought it would be a chick lit book. Its not.

Author Philip Galanes has written a deeply moving, sad but uplifting novel.

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Title: The Importance of Being Myrtle

Author: Ulrika Jonsson

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Myrtles husband, Austin, dies on the bus one morning, everything seems to freeze. But in reality Myrtle has been frozen for nearly 40 years, locked into an emotionless marriage. So if the barriers have been lifted, why does she still feel trapped? Her daughters are a mystery to her - one prickly and defensive, the other with a closely guarded secret. And thanks to Austins cold presence, friends are a rarity. How is a widow supposed to find herself when shes alone in the world?But hope might rest with Gianni, the kind stranger in whose arms Austin died.

Members Reviews:

The Importance of being Myrtle

I started reading this book a few weeks after the death of my partner and I wasn't sure whether it was the right book to read at that time of my life. I quickly realised that the author portrayed the effect of grief on individuals in a realistic way and I could empathise with both Myrtle herself as the grieving and shell shocked widow and with her two adult daughters, Gillian and Beth.

Austin Lewis was a controlling man who kept Myrtle where he wanted her and didn't allow her a life of her own. Because of the circumstances surrounding their marriage - revealed in flash backs - Myrtle didn't feel she should assert her own personality. As a consequence when Austin dies on a bus one morning going to work Myrtle finds herself adrift and at the mercy of control freak - daughter Gillian.

This is a well written and at times very funny story about what happens when there is a death in a family and how even those who think it won't change their lives find it has a huge effect on them. I liked the characters and some of the dialogue is absolutely brilliant. I particularly liked the party Myrtle's neighbour Dorothy throws and to which she invites Myrtle. I enjoyed reading it and found it helped me to understand what I am going through too.

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Title: Miri, Who Charms

Author: Joanne Greenberg

Narrator: Diana Andrade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-12

Publisher: Brook Forest Voices

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Amazing, the pain that can be caused by wielding the sword of charm." Rachel idolizes Miri's charm, beauty and family that represents perfection in contrast to the chaos of her own life. She is often blind to Miri's manipulation of others for personal gain, not only in their early years of growing up together in a Denver Jewish Orthodox community, but also in their adult lives. Amid issues of cultural identity and an era of growing feminism, they struggle to sustain a complex, often competitive friendship throughout the challenges of marriage, careers, and family relationships. Miri's s daughter, Tamar, initially offers the friends a link that will strengthen their uneasy bond. However, when Tamar develops a passion for the dangerous sport of caving at a very early age, Rachel and Miri's friendship faces a test more severe than any the women have ever experienced. Reconciliation is not where you might expect. This spiritually beautiful novel explores the ramifications of life's choices.

Members Reviews:

Poor choice of narrator

How could the performance have been better?

This narration is almost killing the story for me. The narrator should be reading the story, not trying to act it out. Among her irritating habits are the following:

1. She unnaturally deepens her voice for all the male characters, which sounds ludicrous. Imagine if a male narrator read all female dialogue in a falsetto!

2. She gives all the older Jewish characters what sound like attempts at European accents, which is problematic for two reasons - (a) the text doesn't establish that all these characters are foreign born, and (b) the accent she affects sounds like no accent I have ever heard, and I have known and interacted with many Jews from Eastern and Northern Europe.

3. When (albeit rarely) Hebrew and Yiddish names and words occur in the text, her pronunciation is atrocious.

4. Worst of all is the simpering-sweet voice she gives to Miri. The text indicates that Miri has a manner that instantly charms and wins over nearly everyone who meets her, whether she is being sincere or not. The way the narrator makes Miri sound, I would expect everyone who hears her to cringe and try to avoid her as much as possible.

I had read many books by Joanne Greenberg in the past and enjoyed them for the author's use of language and sympathetic characterizations. It is likely if I was reading rather than listening, I would feel the same about this book. I'm forcing myself to plow ahead with the book (I'm over halfway through) because the story has captured me, and I am doing my best to imagine how it would sound in my mind's ear if I was reading it instead of listening to this narrator.

I have also listened to many other audiobooks as my "companions" on daily 3 mile walks. The narration in no other audiobook I have listened to has been anywhere near this dreadful. Not all readers have equally mellifluous voices, but I'd rather hear a monotone, even a robot reader, rather than suffer through this.

Please do a service to your authors and customers, and expect a higher standard from your readers.

Glad I took a chance and listened!

Would you consider the audio edition of Miri, Who Charms to be better than the print version?

Definitely! After seeing the only written review, I was afraid to try listening. But I am very happy I ignored it and decided to purchase regardless of their viewpoint.

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Title: Breakfast in Bed

Author: Eleanor Moran

Narrator: Lisa Coleman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

At 31, Amber is being bombarded with wedding invitations just as shes collecting her divorce papers - and her bossy best friend has gone one step further and made her chief bridesmaid. Its high time Amber regained control of her life. Ambers joy at landing herself a coveted role in Oscar Retfords kitchen soon fades as she discovers Oscar is as famous for his furious temper and addiction to firing people as he is for the legendary meals he creates.

But as passions start to run high, and her past catches up with her, it looks like Ambers cooked up a recipe for disaster . . .

Lisa Coleman reads this funny, feel-good novel from Eleanor Moran.

Members Reviews:

Boring

Not terrible, but not that great either. It was interesting at parts, but not fascinating. One of these books you read, but can barely remember much a few days later.

Enjoyable

I was lucky enough to win this paperback book from a giveaway run by @Btweenthesheets on Twitter.

Amber had separated from her husband, Dom, and she went for a job interview at a well-known chef's new restaurant, after a not-so-great interview she was surprised to find out that she had got the job. She was completely in awe of her new boss, Oscar, and very keen to impress him. He was a stereotypically loud, angry and hot-headed chef who creates some rather unusual culinary masterpieces - lambs tongues, pigs spleens and even blood ice cream!

Amber is not fully over her ex-husband, who cheated on her, and she finds herself crushing on Oscar with his manly and controlling ways. It soon became clear that he felt the same way and so began a relationship that would threaten everything she had worked for.

Throughout the whole book I got the sense of confusion from Amber, she just didn't know what to do about her feelings for her ex and then her boss. So she threw herself into her new job so that she wouldn't have to think about that side of her life. To begin with Dom was not a favourite of mine but as the book progressed I found myself warming to him, once he had explained his version of events I looked at it in a different way.

There were a lot of funny moments that had me laughing out loud, one of the most memorable for me was the crème brlée incident, it really got me giggling! Amber's romantic mathematics was also a fun part of the story, I've always been terrible at maths so I couldn't quite follow her reasoning though. The ups and downs of running a restaurant was another enjoyable part, working somewhere like that sounds extremely stressful but it was fascinating to read about.

Although this book was a little bit predictable at times I was quite surprised by the ending - I feel like there should be a sequel because I would love to know what happens next for a few of the characters.

This is an enjoyable and witty book, great to curl up on the sofa with.

this lady writes fun stories. i miss her characters when the book ...

this lady writes fun stories. i miss her characters when the book is finished.

the newest one - The Last Time I Saw You - is a little heavier, but great.