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Cori Samuel

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Hello, I read a lot. I love books in all their forms: spoken, written and drawn. Just to note, I've not written any books myself -- my 'author' status is entirely for narrating other people's books, mostly at LibriVox. :)

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Here's how my reading rating system currently works:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I adore this book and will recommend it at the slightest opportunity

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - this is a great read and worth your time unless your book taste is miles different to mine

⭐⭐⭐ - this is a solid read, didn't send me to the giddy heights of more stars, but that's okay

⭐⭐ - I had a problem with this book, it really wasn't for me

⭐ - I seriously disliked this book and the author is dead,
OR I disliked this book so completely that I'm g ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 548 ratings · 129 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, David Muncaster (Narrator), mb (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 2,793,752 ratings — published 1590 — 9948 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.90 avg rating — 1,815,994 ratings — published 1818 — 13417 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.09 avg rating — 905,046 ratings — published 1843 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persuasion by Jane Austen, Tina Tilney (Narrator), Kara Shallenberg (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.15 avg rating — 764,786 ratings — published 1817 — 4994 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.44 avg rating — 909,794 ratings — published 1850 — 7492 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Kara Shallenberg (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Patricia Oakley (Narrator) 3.85 avg rating — 446,685 ratings — published 1817 — 6229 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Stephan Möbius (Narrator), Katy Preston (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 423,730 ratings — published 1838 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.83 avg rating — 345,665 ratings — published 1898 — 5833 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 296,226 ratings — published 1877 — 1710 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (narrator) 4.22 avg rating — 253,584 ratings — published 1929 — 2467 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it A Boldly Daring Scheme (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries) by Lynn Messina (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Entertaining Regency murder mystery investigation that mostly respects quite how hard it would have been for a young lady in her second season to have been investigating anything at all! Light in tone, with a slowburn romance bubbling along, and note ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing Magic, Maps, and Mischief: A Cozy Neurodivergent Adventure (Greton's Marvellous Maps Book 1) by David Green (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Cosy fantasy with an older autistic main character? Other neurodivergent characters, and a queernorm setting? Well, yes please! Mapmaker and mage Greton of Willow is forced to flee an oppressive regime, and settle in a new country. He tries to see the ...more
Oct 22, 2025 09:57AM · 4 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Magic, Maps, and Mischief by David Green. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Magic, Maps, and Mischief by David Green <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it Death of a Stranger (The Bishopsgate Ward Mysteries #1) by John Pilkington	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very enjoyable and cleverly plotted Elizabethan murder mystery set in London, 1594. Our main character, Matthew Cutler is a widower from plague, and the impact of that on him and his family echoes through the book. He is a parish constable but fairly ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing Slow Gods by Claire North	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Phenomenal book doing one of the things I love most about sci-fi: letting us explore humanity and what it means to be a person, maybe even a good one. The setting is a far future with many colonised planets, where The Slow, a mysterious and god-like ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Twisty murder mystery with all the beats of a classic noir, but where our private eye was also the first man in space, and the setting is a starship a very long way from Earth. This was a very enjoyable read for me. I had a lot of questions as I read ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
... because we all need to know how Sophie would have coped if Howl's Moving Castle was actually commercial premises with potential to house a cat rescue charity. This is set in 1920s Montréal, though in a world where a tiny few people can do magic, u ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it The Approval of Sheep by Karen Storey (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Entertaining story about a man struggling to succeed in life, and how a flock of sheep and a legal covenant help him move on from other people's definitions of achievement. Also a love letter to sheep in general, lovely and ridiculous creatures that ...more
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Cori Samuel rated a book liked it How to Surf a Hurricane by Todd Medema (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The plot of this story is fun: in the near future, a young engineer from a family running a vast energy company, has to steal his own revolutionary battery prototypes after his project is canned. So he plans a heist, at sea, during a hurricane, as yo ...more
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Cori’s Quotes

“Little houses, bigger ones, scrolled and capacious porches, dark windows, leaves of trees already rich with May, homes of rooms which chambered sleep as honey is cherished, drifted past their slow walking and were left behind, and not a light in any home.”
― James Agee, A Death in the Family

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“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

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“So what's a nurse? [...]
Basically someone who does all the work of helping people without any of the credit.”
― Zack Schoppen, The Midwizard of Cosconia

tags: nurses, nursing

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