by Nathaniel Philbrick This is a seafaring story based on the records of a real whaling ship, The Essex, which was the basis of the story Moby Dick. It's about a ship that actually was attacked by a whale, as recorded in the ship's log and private notes written by a cabin boy. My first impressio...
This seemed really promising. An interesting premise and good reviews from people I trust. So maybe it's the audio format, but throughout the first 2 hours of audio I kept having to rewind and re-listen because my mind kept wandering to other things. I just got tired of waiting for the pace to pick ...
I enjoyed listening to the audiobook of The Alienist, a story about a serial killer in New York of the year 1896. Essentially this novel combines historical facts, forensics, psychology and good old plain detective work and for the most part it is a compelling read. I´m pretty sure that I would ha...
This is the short story/novella version of every 1950’s Creature Feature B movie, where the teenagers witness everything and frantically try to get help, only to have all the adults dismiss them as crazy kids pulling a prank. Except in this case, it’s little kids instead of teenagers. Good entertain...
Unbroken was set up to be a great book for me. It shares an audiobook narrator and the first section of the book deals with the 1936 Olympics as my favorite book of the year, The Boys in the Boat. That first section of the book was great and I loved seeing many of the same events that concluded Th...
The book wasn’t amazing, but the man certainly was. Don’t get me wrong; I really liked the book, and it is one I would recommend to all those readers who want to meet an intelligent, wonderful, honest, humble person. I am not calling him great for what he did for science, but for the kind of person ...
Very uneven in the quality of the stories. Most of them just okay, a few quite good. The only one I'd call great is Neil Gaiman's (no surprise), but the ones by Kelly Link and Joe Hill came close.
4 starsMay/June 2013 selection for the Stranger Than Fiction book discussion group sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library. For the rest of my review and notes from the discussion held in late June, please visit this article at my blog: http://bit.ly/19KrehS
This book was an impulse buy and I'm ever so glad I followed my impulse in this case. I used to watch Siskel & Ebert religiously when I was a teen and though I often found myself disagreeing with one of these men I enjoyed their debates immensely. However here I got a good look at not Ebert of Siske...
I didn't care much for this play, and the epilogue was completely unnecessary. In fact, for me the epilogue all but ruined what power there was in the play itself. I don't think that Joan of Arc's life can be boiled down into a short play, because there isn't enough time to really get into her hea...
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