This was almost as enjoyable as the original! The author really captured the characters of Elizabeth and Darcy, as well as all of the supporting cast. This felt like an alternate-universe take on what might have happened, had Elizabeth not immediately rejected Darcy when he first proposed. The story ...
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The Black Pearl, Scott O’Dell
A fun, quick adventure story set in (I gathered) turn-of-the-century Mexico, this read like an English lit pick from high school representing the conflict of man vs nature, or man vs creature or monster.
Ramon grows up diving for pearls, and helping his father to polish and sell them. He's heard ...
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
I've found that I cannot read history--I have to listen to it, for the pacing to work for me. (I'm sure this says bad things about my attention span. I can pay very careful attention indeed to scientific minutiae, though! Just... not history.) So when I switched from Kindle to audible on this one, I ...
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The Thirteenth Fairy
This was a mostly proverbial middle grade read. Filomina is a bookish middle school girl with no friends and overprotective parents. She's obsessed with the Never After book series, supposed to be the "real" versions of all of the world's most famous fairy tales. But on the day that the final book ...
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A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
I tried to listen to this once before, but it was read by the author, and there was something about her voice that just really didn't do it for me.
I found a physical copy at a library sale, though, and it's such a classic, and it's supposed to be about quantum physics besides (which I love--and ...
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Little Beach Street Bakery, Jenny Colgan
I've read several Jenny Colgan books now -- they're all cozy and sweet, which is why I read them, but not clean, which is why I knocked off a star (not that she claims to be clean, that's just no preference.) There's a decent amount of language, and a lot of sex, though (mostly) in a fade-to-black ...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Full Cast Audio Edition
Still my all-time favorite series... but I already had the previous audiobook version, and I also had the movies. Why did I need another version, I wondered?
The reason: even though the narrator for the entire series was amazing, there is something about the full cast that does make it come alive ...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Full Cast Version
Such a fun listen! I remember the first time around, thinking this book's plot was too convoluted. Now I'm so familiar with it that I can't imagine it written any other way. Strangely, the time turner (I don't think?) ever came back into any subsequent books, until "Harry Potter and the Cursed ...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Full Cast Audio Version
The full cast version of this one is amazing. It's like watching the film, but much longer, with all the nuances included that they necessarily had to cut for the theatrical release.
I think what I love so much about these books in part is that Rowling spends SO much time on world building -- ...
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Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
This book establishes the difference between shame ("I am bad") vs guilt ("I did something bad,") how the former tends to drive disconnection and hiding, and that vulnerability (the opposite of shame) is key to authenticity. "Daring greatly" is about choosing to be vulnerable even when the outcome ...
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