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Ask Baba Yaga: The Audiobook Collection
From the beloved online advice column, Ask Baba Yaga is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world. Poet and author Taisia Kitaiskaia embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide poetic life advice to the questioning and the hurting in this audio collection of her books, Ask Baba Yaga and the all-new Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times . Enjoy the witchy, clever, candid advice of Baba Yaga in all of her otherworldly wisdom.
1 pages, Audio CD
Published June 27, 2023
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August 25, 2024
Just Weird
From the brief description at the book review site where I chose this book, I was expecting something different... and better. I had never heard of this column before, but I had heard of the legend of Baba Yaga. This is essentially an advice column with often strange questions from readers and even odder answers from Baba Yaga. Sometimes, the author contradicted herself with many of these similarly themed questions; the book felt repetitious as well. This might be better in book form where you can stop and start when it gets to be a little too much; for me, at least, I prefer to listen to an audiobook for hours at a time when I have mundane tasks to do or long drives. While some advice seemed like common sense dressed up in semi-mystical, country wise-woman language, other advice was either hard to parse because of the flowery prose or counterintuitive, seeming not quite right to me. I wasn't wild about the narrator, either. In particular, I did not like Baba Yaga's “Tales from the Crypt” voicing. Some question-askers’ voices were just odd in my ear as well. Especially for a book that is supposed to be humorous, I found this book to be an utter disappointment.
I received a free copy of this audiobook, but that did not affect my review.
From the brief description at the book review site where I chose this book, I was expecting something different... and better. I had never heard of this column before, but I had heard of the legend of Baba Yaga. This is essentially an advice column with often strange questions from readers and even odder answers from Baba Yaga. Sometimes, the author contradicted herself with many of these similarly themed questions; the book felt repetitious as well. This might be better in book form where you can stop and start when it gets to be a little too much; for me, at least, I prefer to listen to an audiobook for hours at a time when I have mundane tasks to do or long drives. While some advice seemed like common sense dressed up in semi-mystical, country wise-woman language, other advice was either hard to parse because of the flowery prose or counterintuitive, seeming not quite right to me. I wasn't wild about the narrator, either. In particular, I did not like Baba Yaga's “Tales from the Crypt” voicing. Some question-askers’ voices were just odd in my ear as well. Especially for a book that is supposed to be humorous, I found this book to be an utter disappointment.
I received a free copy of this audiobook, but that did not affect my review.
December 12, 2023
I think this is a fun concept, but I believe I would have enjoyed it more in writing rather than in audiobook format. The move from the Dear Abby style written collum to spoken dialogues told back to back made it all kind of run together. Otherwise, I think the narrator did a good job differentiating between Baba Yaga and the many individuals writing to seek her advice.
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