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Kate’s 2¢: “A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo
“A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo
I’ve read several stories featuring Kate Burkholder. I like the wholesomeness of them, if you can say murder is wholesome. The characters are real and their actions have reactions. As for the sequencing of these stories, the first one was out of chronological order, which bothered me. I like things to be linear.
Kathleen McInerney did a good job of narrating these short stories.
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A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection DB109583
Castillo, Linda. Reading time: 10 hours, 6 minutes.
Read by Kathleen McInerney.
Short Stories
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a “master of the genre” (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. Now, together for the first time in print, |A Simple Murder| features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder. While on vacation with her partner John Tomasetti in LONG LOST, Kate discovers that the old house where they’re staying is haunted by a girl who disappeared decades before…. An abandoned baby is discovered on the Amish bishop’s front porch in A HIDDEN SECRET, and Kate is called in to investigate. SEEDS OF DECEPTION unearths the secrets of Kate Burkholder’s own Amish past—and lays the groundwork for her future career in law enforcement. In the midst of a power outage in Painters Mill, a teenage girl is attacked at an Amish party in ONLY THE LUCKY. IN DARK COMPANY is the story of an injured woman with amnesia who seeks Kate’s help in trying to remember her attacker’s identity…and her
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Kate’s 2¢: “Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston
“Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston
Among the many characters introduced in the beginning of this story, I suspect you, as I did, will be able to guess who the murderer is.
I enjoyed the story and look forward to following Lewellen Ferris in Houston’s Mystery series. I wonder if Kathy Kerrigan will continue to read this series as the books are released.
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Victoria Houston (b. March 25, 1945) is an American writer. She is the author of the Loon Lake Series, a series of murder mysteries. The mysteries are set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin against a background of fly fishing as well as fishing for muskie, bass, bluegill and walleyes. She has also written or co-authored over seven non-fiction books.
Houston had been formerly married to a man nine years younger than herself, and their union led Houston to interview 40 couples in similar circumstances, resulting in the book Loving a Younger Man: How Women Are Finding and Enjoying a Better Relationship.[1][2][3] Houston lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.[4]
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Wolf Hollow DBC24908
Houston, Victoria. Reading time: 5 hours, 46 minutes.
Read by Kathy Kerrigan.
Mystery and Detective Stories
In the first installment of the Lew Ferris Mystery series, a string of murders leaves Police Chief Ferris and the Northwoods community of Loon Lake, Wisconsin searching for answers. Adult. Unrated.
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Kate’s 2¢: “BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson
“BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson
In “BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson, Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of the days before, of who that man (her husband, Ben) in bed with her is, of who she is or how old she is.
I enjoyed this psychological thriller and couldn’t really tell what the truth was, until the very end Well written..
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Steve “S. J.” Watson (born 1971)[1] is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller novel Before I Go to Sleep. Rights to publish the book have been sold in 42 countries[2] and it has continued to be an international bestseller.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Watson was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire (now West Midlands). He studied Physics at the University of Birmingham and then moved to London, where he worked in various hospitals and specialized as an audiologist[4] in the diagnosis and treatment of hearing-impaired children. In the evenings and weekends he wrote fiction.[5]
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“The best debut novel I’ve ever read.”–Tess Gerritsen,bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series”Anexceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page.” –Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Moonlight MileS. J. Watson makes his powerful debutwith this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is–and who she can trust.
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Kate’s 2¢: “26A” by Diana Evans
“26A” by Diana Evans
This was an interesting and intriguing story that was well crafted. It will mess with your mind
and cause you to think again about the twin-bond.
Gabriella Cavallero is one of my favorite readers.
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Diana Omo Evans FRSL (born 1972)[1] is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her first novel, 26a, published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers,[2] the Betty Trask Award[3] and the deciBel Writer of the Year award.[4] Her third novel Ordinary People was shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction[5] and won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature.[6] A House for Alice was published in 2023.[7]
As well as writing fiction, Evans contributes essays and literary criticism to the national press.[8] She was honoured as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.[9]
Background and education[edit]
Evans is the daughter of a Nigerian mother and an English father. She was born and grew up in Neasden, north-west London, with her parents and five sisters, one of whom was her twin.[10] She also spent part of her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria.[11]
She completed a media studies degree at the University of Sussex.[11] While in Brighton, she was a dancer[12] in the African dance troupe Mashango.[11]
She completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.[11] At the age of 25 she became a journalist. She contributed human-interest features and art criticism to a range of magazines, journals and newspapers in the UK; published interviews with celebrities; worked as an editor for Pride Magazine[13] and the literary journal Calabash.
Writing[edit]
Her first novel, 26a, “a Bildungsroman that centres its storyline on the growing process of a pair of identical twins of Nigerian-British origin, Georgia and Bessi”[14] growing up in Neasden, was published in 2005 to wide critical acclaim and has since been translated into 12 languages.[15] It was shortlisted in the first novel category for both the Whitbread Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers.[16] Literary critic Maya Jaggi said in The Guardian of 26a: “The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood … but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.”[17] Carol Birch, writing in The Independent, said of 26a that “Evans writes with tremendous verve and dash. Her ear for dialogue is superb, and she has wit and sharp perception” and though she has her criticisms, concludes that Evans “has produced a consistently readable book filled with likeable characters: a study of loss that has great heart and humour.”[18] According to Diriye Osman in the Huffington Post: “Here was a Bildungsroman of such daring and sustained elegance that it felt like a gorgeous dance of a novel. In many ways, it is apropos that this book which focused on the secret bond that exists between twins was followed in 2009 by the equally masterful The Wonder, a novel rooted in the world of dance.”[19]
Evans’ second novel, The Wonder (2009), explores the world of dancing in the context of Caribbean immigration to the UK, London gentrification, and the bond between father and son.[2][12] Maggie Gee, writing in The Independent, called it “a serious work of art, with sentences like ribbons of silk winding around a skeleton of haunting imagery. … The Wonder’s most central achievement is to explore what art means in human life. … This second novel, both powerful and delicate, lacking in linear plot but rich in the poetry of human observation, proves that Evans has what she calls ‘the watch-me, the grace note’ that marks a true artist.”[20]
Her third novel, Ordinary People (2018), is a portrait of family life for two black couples in their 30s in South London in a year bookended by the election of Barack Obama and the death of Michael Jackson.[13][21][22] Ordinary People was the winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize.[6][5][23][24]
Her fourth novel, A House for Alice, was published in 2023,[25][26] charaterised as “the first memorialisation of Grenfell in fiction”.[27]
Also a journalist, Evans has contributed essays and literary criticism to Marie Claire, The Independent, The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, Time, The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Bazaar.[11][28][29]
She is an associate lecturer of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.[30] She is also a 2014–16 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London College of Fashion and a 2016–17 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent.[16]
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26a DB63157
Evans, Diana. Reading time: 9 hours, 21 minutes.
Read by Gabriella Cavallero.
Family
Psychological Fiction
In 26a, the attic of their London loft, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, twin daughters of a Nigerian mother and alcoholic English father, build a blissful sanctuary. But adolescence tests their bonds and identities as Georgia descends into mental illness. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2005.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Tomorrow the world: in which Cadet Otto Prohaska carries the Habsburg Empire’s civilizing mission to the entirely unreceptive peoples of Africa and Oceania” by John Biggins
“Tomorrow the world: in which Cadet Otto Prohaska carries the Habsburg Empire’s civilizing mission to the entirely unreceptive peoples of Africa and Oceania” by John Biggins
Have you heard of “The Perils of Pauline”? This story could be titled, “The Perils of Prohaska”.
It is a rather long story chock full of details about sailing a vessel rigged in full sail for good weather and the perils of schooner navigating in stormy weather. Then, add to is all the odd behavior of the various Navy officers.
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John Biggins (born 31 October 1949) is a British writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his Prohaska series of novels set in the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the early years of the 20th Century.
Early life[edit]
Biggins was born in Bromley, Greater London, England. He attended Chepstow Secondary and Lydney Grammar Schools, and studied history at the University of Wales from 1968 to 1971. He continued his graduate studies in Poland.
Career[edit]
As a young man Biggins worked as a civil servant for the UK Ministry of Agriculture. He also worked as a journalist and did technical writing before becoming an author of historical fiction.
In 1991 the first of Biggins’ Prohaska novels, A Sailor of Austria, was published by Secker & Warburg. The story is set in the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I, and vividly depicts life on board the primitive and dangerous U-boats of the period.[1] Kirkus Reviews reported the book to be well researched, but called it “bland and mundane”.[2] The Historical Novel Society, on the other hand, deemed it “Excellent military fiction”, and similarly praised his later book Tomorrow The World.[3]
In 2010 Biggins began a new series of novels, and self-published his book, The Surgeon’s Apprentice. This novel was included by The Spectator magazine on its “Books of the Year” list,[4] described as a “soundly researched tale of sea-faring and warfare.” In 2021 he published its sequel, “The Lion Ascendant”.
His previous books are now being distributed by Bonanova Editions.
The Prohaska series[edit]
Overview[edit]
Ottokar Prohaska, the fictional protagonist, is a Czech by birth, but an Austrian naval officer by vocation. His exploits have elements of both adventure and comedy. The historical background is the last years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and in particular, in the case of two of the novels, World War I.[5] The reader finds the hero/anti-hero, at different times, a gunnery officer aboard a ship, a submarine commander, and a member of the flying corps.
• A Sailor of Austria (1991)[1][6][7]
• Vivat Österreich! (2011) – German translation of A Sailor of Austria (1991)
• The Emperor’s Coloured Coat (1992)[8][9]
• The Two-Headed Eagle (1993)[10][11]
• Tomorrow The World (1994)[3]
The van Raveyck series[edit]
• The Surgeon’s Apprentice (2010)
• The Lion Ascendant (2021)
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Tomorrow the world: in which Cadet Otto Prohaska carries the Habsburg Empire’s civilizing mission to the entirely unreceptive peoples of Africa and Oceania DB107327
Biggins, John Reading time: 17 hours, 26 minutes.
Bill Wallace
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Otto Prohaska is a cadet in the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the turn of the century. Bad luck continues to shadow Otto, as he heads out on a scientific expedition bound for disaster. But even sinister quack scientists, a misguided attempt to establish a colony in Africa, and angry South Sea cannibals cannot keep Otto from fulfilling his patriotic duty. Some violence. 1994.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Alien oceans: the search for life in the depths of space” by Kevin Peter Hand
“Alien oceans: the search for life in the depths of space” by Kevin Peter Hand
This was an interesting read, but, I’m not sure how much of it I can use in my daily life.
From the web:
Kevin Peter Hand is a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. His research focuses on the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the solar system with an emphasis on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
Kevin Peter Hand – Simons Foundation
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Alien oceans: the search for life in the depths of space DB100326
Hand, Kevin Peter Reading time: 10 hours, 36 minutes.
Mark Ashby
Science and Technology
Nature and the Environment
Scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory compares the environments of Earth’s oceans with those of other planets to explain their role in identifying potential locations habitable by humans. Discusses the steps of inhabiting a location once identified, and proposes policies for future exploration and research. 2020.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The accidental tourist” by Anne Tylert
“The accidental tourist” by Anne Tylert
You might say that the dog, Edward, is the main character in this story. He brings it all together. I even like the ending of this story.
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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.[1] Tyler’s twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her “brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail”,[2] her “rigorous and artful style”, and her “astute and open language.”[3]
Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others.
Early life and education[edit]
Early childhood[edit]
The oldest of four children, she was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father, Lloyd Parry Tyler, was an industrial chemist and her mother, Phyllis Mahon Tyler, a social worker. Both her parents were Quakers who were very active with social causes in the Midwest and the South.[4] Her family lived in a succession of Quaker communities in the South until they settled in 1948 in a Quaker commune in Celo, in the mountains of North Carolina near Burnsville.[5][6] The Celo Community settlement was populated largely by conscientious objectors and members of the liberal Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends.[7] Tyler lived there from age seven through eleven and helped her parents and others care for livestock and organic farming. While she did not attend formal public school in Celo, lessons were taught in art, carpentry, and cooking in homes and in other subjects in a tiny school house. Her early informal training was supplemented by correspondence school.[4][5][6][8]
Her first memory of her own creative story-telling was of crawling under the bed covers at age three and “telling myself stories in order to get to sleep at night.”[5] Her first book at age seven was a collection of drawings and stories about “lucky girls … who got to go west in covered wagons.”[5] Her favorite book as a child was The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton. Tyler acknowledges that this book, which she read many times during this period of limited access to books, had a profound influence on her, showing “how the years flowed by, people altered, and nothing could ever stay the same.”[9] This early perception of changes over time is a theme that reappears in many of her novels decades later, just as The Little House itself appears in her novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Tyler also describes reading Little Women 22 times as a child.[4] When the Tyler family left Celo after four years to move to Raleigh, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Tyler had never attended public school and never used a telephone.[5] This unorthodox upbringing enabled her to view “the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise.”[10]
Raleigh, North Carolina[edit]
Tyler felt herself to be an outsider in the public schools she attended in Raleigh, a feeling that has followed her most of her life.[5] She believes that this sense of being an outsider has contributed to her becoming a writer: “I believe that any kind of setting-apart situation will do [to become a writer]. In my case, it was emerging from the commune … and trying to fit into the outside world.”[5] Despite her lack of public schooling prior to age eleven, Anne entered school academically well ahead of most of her classmates in Raleigh. With access now to libraries, she discovered Eudora Welty, Gabriel García Márquez, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others.[4] Eudora Welty remains one of her favorite writers, and The Wide Net and Other Stories is one of her favorite books; she has called Welty “my crowning influence.”[6] She credits Welty with showing her that books could be about the everyday details of life, not just about major events.[5] During her years at Needham B. Broughton High School in Raleigh, she was inspired and encouraged by a remarkable English teacher, Phyllis Peacock.[4][11] “Mrs. Peacock” had previously taught the writer Reynolds Price, under whom Tyler would later study at Duke University. Peacock would also later teach the writer Armistead Maupin. Seven years after high school, Tyler would dedicate her first published novel to “Mrs. Peacock, for everything you’ve done.”[11]
Duke and Columbia Universities[edit]
When Tyler graduated from high school at age sixteen, she wanted to attend Swarthmore College, a school founded in 1860 by the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends.[12] However, she had won a full AB Duke scholarship[13] to Duke University, and her parents pressured her to go to Duke because they needed to save money for the education of her three younger brothers.[4][14] At Duke, Tyler enrolled in Reynolds Price’s first creative writing class, which also included a future poet, Fred Chappell. Price was most impressed with the sixteen-year-old Tyler, describing her as “frighteningly mature for 16,” “wide-eyed,” and “an outsider.”[5] Years later Price would describe Tyler as “one of the best novelists alive in the world, … who was almost as good a writer at 16 as she is now.”[5][8] Tyler took an additional creative writing course with Price and also studied under William Blackburn, who also had taught William Styron, Josephine Humphreys, and James Applewhite at Duke, as well as Price and Chappell.[8]
As a college student, Tyler had not yet determined she wanted to become a writer. She loved painting and the visual arts. She also was involved in the drama society in high school and at Duke, where she acted in a number of plays, playing Laura in The Glass Menagerie and Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town.[5][8][15] She majored in Russian Literature at Duke—not English—and graduated in 1961, at age nineteen, having been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. With her Russian Literature background she received a fellowship to graduate school in Slavic Studies at Columbia University.[8]
Living in New York City was quite an adjustment for her. There she became somewhat addicted to riding trains and subways: “While I rode I often felt like I was … an enormous eye taking things in, turning them over and sorting them out … writing was the only way” [to express her observations].[5] Tyler left Columbia graduate school after a year, having completed course work but not her master’s thesis. She returned to Duke, where she got a job in the library as a Russian bibliographer.[4] It was there that she met Taghi Modarressi, a resident in child psychiatry in Duke Medical School and a writer himself, and they were married a year later (1963).[4]
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Tyler Anne Reading time: 10 hours, 51 minutes.
Read by Bob Askey.
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Psychological Fiction
Macon Leary leads a quiet, routine life until his young son is killed in a fast-food shop holdup and his wife of twenty years suddenly decides to leave him. Macon returns to his family’s home and settles into a dull, soothing life with his brothers and sister–until he meets a dog trainer named Muriel Pritchett, who is as different from his wife as anyone could be. Some strong language. Bestseller 1985.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Hanging Falls: a Timber Creek K9 mystery” by Margaret Mizushima
Kate’s 2¢: “Hanging Falls: a Timber Creek K9 mystery” by Margaret Mizushima
This story kept me engaged with the characters and I liked the narrative arc. Of course, my heart went out to the dog when he was dognapped.
From her website:
Margaret Mizushima is the author of the award-winning and internationally published Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. Active within the writing community, Margaret serves as past president for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, was elected the 2019 Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and is also a member of Northern Colorado Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Women Writing the West. She and her husband recently moved from their home in Colorado to the Pacific Northwest. She can be found on Facebook/AuthorMargaretMizushima, Twitter @margmizu, Instagram at margmizu, and her website at www.MargaretMizushima.com
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I was born in Kansas and grew up on cattle ranches in Texas and Colorado. My childhood summers were spent either on horseback herding cows or nestled in the crook of a tree reading a library book. When I was in high school, I volunteered to work with a child who had cerebral palsy, teaching lessons that were designed by the school speech/language therapist. I developed an intense interest in this very intelligent boy whose motor skills wouldn’t allow him to talk. So I pursued a degree in Speech Pathology, which I received from Colorado State University after completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Northern Colorado. Eventually I married a veterinarian, and we have two daughters. I worked as a speech therapist in an acute care hospital before establishing my own rehabilitation agency.
After I sold my company, I decided to study the art and craft of fiction writing. What a wondrous world this opened up for me. Whereas before, I’d been driven by the science of speech, language, and communication disorders, I could now focus on artistic creativity with language. I could also use my years of experience working with people to create characters that readers seemed to enjoy. Since I’m an avid crime fiction reader and crime documentary watcher, mystery writing seemed like the way to go.
My husband helped me develop the idea for the Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, and the premise for the first in the series, Killing Trail, grew from a conversation he had with one of his clients. The primary characters, Deputy Mattie Cobb, Robo, and Cole Walker, DVM, came strictly from my imagination, and I hope you enjoy their adventures as much as I do.
Currently, my husband and I live with three dogs near a small town in Colorado. I balance writing with assisting him with our veterinary clinic and Angus cattle herd. My fiction has won contest awards, and you can find my short story “Hay Hook” in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 anthology, Crossing Colfax. In addition to reading, I enjoy yoga and hiking in the Colorado high country. I would love to hear from you, so please feel free to write to me. My email address is on the Contacts page.
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Hanging Falls: a Timber Creek K-9 mystery DB107430
Mizushima, Margaret Reading time: 10 hours, 12 minutes.
Nancy Wu
Mystery and Detective Stories
Officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are on a scouting mission to pinpoint trail damage when they find a body floating at the edge of a lake. Robo scents another human, leading to a forest dweller becoming the prime suspect. But the victim’s identity leads to an odd religious cult. Mattie and Robo must find the killers. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.
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Kate’s 2¢: “10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world” by Elif Shafak
“10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world” by Elif Shafak
They say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. This story takes the last of Tequila Leila’s life to introduce her back story and introduces her five friends minute by minute until she is heart and brain dead. Her five, very unique friends come to her rescue to bury her in the ocean.
I enjoyed this story, especially because it was read by Gabriella Cavallero. The five friends have a special blend of humor as they tackle the issue of Lela.
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Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist1. She was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971123 and spent her teenage years in Madrid, Spain3. She writes in Turkish and English and has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels145. Her novels include The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World1. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages3 and 55 languages5. She has been married to Eyüp Can since 20052 and is the most widely read woman writer in Turkey3. She has won several awards, including being shortlisted for the Costa Award, RSL Ondaatje Prize and Women’s Prize for Fiction for her latest novel The Island of Missing Trees.
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10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world DB101936
Shafak, Elif. Reading time: 11 hours, 58 minutes.
Read by Gabriella Cavallero.
Psychological Fiction
Prostitute Tequila Leila has been murdered, but her brain continues working for another ten minutes and thirty-eight seconds. She ruminates on her past–growing up in a polygamous family in the provinces, running away to Istanbul, and her time in the sex trade. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019.
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Kate’s 2¢: “About Grace: A Novel” by Anthony Doerr(read by George Newbern)
“About Grace: A Novel” by Anthony Doerr(read by George Newbern)
When is a dream just a dream and when is it a portent of the future? David eventually learns how to deal with his visions and find the family and forgiveness he thought was gone forever.
I enjoyed the rich prose of this story read by George Newbern.
Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
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Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Early life and education[edit]
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio,[1] Doerr attended the nearby University School, graduating in 1991. He then majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University.[2
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George Newbern is an American actor, best known for his roles as Charlie in the ABC show Scandal and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride (1991) and its sequels Father of the Bride Part II and Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish), as well as Danny (The Yeti) in Friends and his recurring role as Julia’s son Payne in Designing Women. He is also known for providing the voice of Superman in many pieces of DC Comics media, and Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy series and the Kingdom Hearts series.
Early life[edit]
Having grown up in Little Rock, Arkansas, Newbern is the son of Betty, a Spanish teacher and David Newbern, a radiologist. George has two brothers (Gordon and John) and one sister (Murry).[1]
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Doerr, Anthony; Newbern, George
. Reading time: 12 hours, 58 minutes.
Read by George Newbern.
Family
Psychological Fiction
“The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen–a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind. Doerr’s characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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