Audiobook Reviews, September 1, 2010
FICTION Adams, Will. The Alexander Cipher. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400114694. $69.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Adams (The Lost Labyrinth) presents h...
Audiobook Reviews, October 1, 2010
FICTION Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307737151. $35; 7 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. F Bender's (www.aimeebender.com) second novel, follow...
Audiobook Reviews, September 15, 2010
FICTION Beattie, Ann. Walks with Men. 2 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2½ hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772347. $39.95; digital download. F In PEN/Bernard Malamud Award winner Beattie's powerfully stark period novella, Jane, a recen...
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Grisham, John. The Litigators. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Books on Tape. Nov. 2011. ISBN 9780307943217. $45; 1 MP3-CD; Playaway digital; digital download. F Narrated by Scott Brick, Grisham’s latest legal thriller will be ...
The Reader’s Shelf: The Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs, March 1, 2011
The Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs
Memoirs offer readers rich evocations of time and place, personal memories made universal, and the pleasures of eavesdropping on another’s life. When memoirs are translated into audiobooks, those pleasures...
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The Shack. William Paul Young. 14 hrs. unabridged. Oasis Audio. ISBN 978-1-60640-920-6. $89.99. F
A chart-topping debut novel currently being adapted to film; Roger Mueller reads.TailSpin. Catherine Coulter. 12 hrs. unabridged. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-...
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FictionAtwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6547-4. $100; 11 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. FIn this freestanding companion novel to Booker Prize-winning aut...
His/Her Master’s Voice: Exceptional Audiobook Narrators
Audiobooks are, of course, about the book, but they are also about the voice, rich, tonal, talented voices that inhabit the narration and breathe life into the characters. As wonderful as a story might be, the narrator can ruin it by changing characters i...
Tropicália: Alegria, Alegria!
Brazilian music evokes for many images of Carnival, samba by the beach, Astrud Gilberto's delicate bossa nova-all very real. But raw psychedelia, audience riots, art as protest, musicians disappeared by the government, and other wild happenings?
For one t...
Audio News Briefs
Digital media distributor OverDrive has launched a new in-school service, AudioBook Classroom (www.audiobookclassroom.com), that enables K-12 schools to offer 1,001 contemporary and classic works in 29 subjects. The titles are available for simultaneous u...