Category Archives: Audiobooks
W…W…Wednesday
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next? My answers! 1. What are you currently reading? I’m still reading The Power of Prayer and Fasting by Mahesh Chavda, Prayer by Philip Yancey and [...]
Share on FacebookMaximum Ride by James Patterson
Addition: Audiobook Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Synopsis: In James Patterson’s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “flock”–Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel–are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. It may seem [...]
Share on FacebookGoing Postal by Terry Pratchett
Addition: Audiobook Rating: 3/5 Synopsis: “Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses – until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into…a government job?” “By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it’s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, [...]
Share on FacebookJuly Round-Up
I’m not American, but I liked the picture! This is my July round-up Books Read: Debbie Macomber: 50 Harbour Street Melanie Ray: The Great Destruction Book 1 Terry Pratchett: Going Postal Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Nick Hornby: About a Boy Allison van Diepen: The Oracle [...]
Share on FacebookA Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Synopsis: The Heroine: Tiffany Aching, incipient witch and cheese maker extraordinaire. Once saved world from Queen of the Elves. Is about to discover that battling evil monarchs is child’s play compared to mortal combat with a Hiver (see below). At eleven years old, is boldest heroine ever to have confronted the Forces of Darkness while [...]
Share on FacebookCandide by Voltaire
Synopsis: A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire is one of the most intriguing figures of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. His masterpiece is Candide, a brilliant satire on the theory that ‘the world is the best of all possible worlds.’ The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who [...]
Share on FacebookAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This is the monthly read for July at the Book Club Forum, so the review will be slightly different. Synopsis: Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty [...]
Share on FacebookListening and….
Are you an audiobook listener? I am, I just love them! But I was wondering, what do you do whilst listening? For me, I sew. I love cross-stitch and I love the fact I can sew and get involved with a book at the same time. Earlier I finished a project that is a gift [...]
Share on FacebookIn My Mailbox (5)
This is a meme hosted by The Story Siren. The books that entered my home this week are: Review Books: They are all in the form of e-books New Beginnings by Johanna Neald The Great Destruction Book 1 by Melanie Ray The Oracle of Dating by Allison van Diepen The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa [...]
Share on FacebookMonstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Synopsis: Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who’s recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia’s ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her [...]
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