The Flight of the Falcon
by Daphne Du Maurier, 1965, audio book read by James Callis, 2010, by BBC Audiobooks Ltd. This is still a very good book, although it is now a bit dated. In another one hundred years or so I guess it … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton, audio book narrated by Simon Vance, originally published in 1908, christianaudio/Hovel Audio, 2004 This book was not what I expected as I thought I was going to be treated to a mystery. It took a couple of … Continue reading →
Anatomy of Greed, The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
by Brian Cruver, Narrated by Mel Foster, 2004, Brilliance Audio This is another book downloaded from the library to make my interior house painting job more enjoyable while I work! Thank goodness for my MP3 player (non-IPod, I must mention). … Continue reading →
A Briefer History of Time
by Steven Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow, unabridged, read by Erik Davies, 2005, Random House Audio I have a remodeling project going on and that is why I have so many audio books listed versus hard print (in addition to the … Continue reading →
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1859, read by Frederick Davidson, 1988, Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. First of all, I want to go on record that, as I have listened to two of Dickens’ books on tape in the last year, … Continue reading →
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1855, read by Simon Vance, 2005, Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. I enjoyed listening to this audio book as the author writes well and the reader did a good job also. I was a bit confused … Continue reading →
The Blue Notebook
by James Andrew Levine, M.D., PhD, read by Meera Simhan, 2009, Random House Audio, New York This book depicts the plight of a child prostitute in India and does it extremely well. Were it not for the disgusting subject matter, … Continue reading →
Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, 2009, by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman, read by Michael Prichard, Tantor Audio This book is incredibly well-researched and the reader was great!   It also told the story of … Continue reading →
Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child, read by Dick Hill, 2009, Random House Audio, New York I took this out from the library and listened to it on the way to Florida from Rhode Island. The coolest thing about it was that, after … Continue reading →
Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay, 2007, St. Martin’s Press, New York Well-written, emotional but not maudlin, rooted in historical fact as well as the present, great cast of supporting characters, believable, suspenseful. I loved the book!
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