#africa #isakdinesen #karenblixen #coffeeplantation #nairobi #kenya #pilot #denysfinchhatton #julieharrisnarrator #ihadafarminafrica The choice to download and listen to Out of Africa, a memoir by Karen Blixen writing under her pen name Isak Dinesen, was an experiment of sorts. First of all, I’ve never […]
#havana #cubanrevolution #castro #batista #revolutionary #cubanexiles #cubanamericans #blackstoneaudio @ChanelCleeton @KylaVictoria @frankiemcorzo @BerkleyPub While it isn’t unusual for me to give a lot of thought to a book I’m going to review, I think I’ve spent an unusual amount of time […]
#debutnovel #firstinseries #privateinvestigator #jealousy #nilsshapiro @goldman_matthew @MacLeodAndrews @BlackstomeAudio Continuing an unintended trend, this week’s review features another debut novel. We’ve got more murder and mayhem, more crazy people, and more twists and turns, but the most distinguishing feature of Gone […]
#WW2Aviation #TimeTravel #B-17 #ManVsTechnology #StevenRBoyett @KMitchroney @MacLeodAndrews @BlackstoneAudio Before you discount Fata Morgana as being just another book about World War 2, let me quickly say there’s something for everyone in this ambitious work by Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney. […]
#Ghosts #Spider #Solicitors #EelMarshHouse @susanhillwriter @PaulAnsdell1 Okay . . . one more ghost story before we leave the genre behind for a while. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill makes no bones (?) about being anything other than a […]
#Parapsychology #Medium #HauntedHouse #Immortality #SeveredHand #RichardMatheson @Ray_Porter @BlackstoneAudio BOO! I hope all you ghosts and goblins are ready for Trick or Treat! As if some of my recent reviews haven’t been scary enough, this week we are going to visit […]
#CounterTerrorism #Assassination #KillList #PTDeutermann #DickHill #MarfanSyndrome #PlantPoisons @BlackstoneAudio Cold Frame is my latest foray into the mind of author P. T. Deutermann and the foray was quite scary! Is there anyone among you naïve enough to believe our government operates […]
#Cholera #China #HongKong #WSomersetMaugham @KateReadingVO @BlackstoneAudio Since I began to listen to audiobooks on a daily basis, I have discovered a variety of advantages. First of all, there is the obvious one: my attention is held by the voice of […]
When I downloaded my audio copy of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker I must confess to an almost prurient interest in the story because of the book descriptions’ implication that this was going to be one of […]