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Alissa
Alissa is starting Lost Lambs
I liked this book so much I stopped reading it so I didn't finish it.
Apr 24, 2026 08:16PM Add a comment
Lost Lambs

Alissa
Alissa is 19% done with Miss Benson's Beetle
Whoever decided the screeching cartoon voice this otherwise wonderful narrator is using for one of the two main characters was acceptable should get out of the audiobook business immediately.
Apr 08, 2026 03:00PM Add a comment
Miss Benson's Beetle

Alissa
Alissa is on page 194 of 560 of Demon Copperhead
This is so good. I want to skip work to finish it.
Mar 30, 2026 08:44PM Add a comment
Demon Copperhead

Alissa
Alissa is 55% done with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
This is a slog. They could have cut a hundred pages of one main character's endless story and lost nothing. And the flashbacks for another main character have become tedious too.
Mar 28, 2026 06:47AM Add a comment
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Alissa
Alissa is on page 80 of 535 of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
I like this so far. I got it in large print because normal print causes me eyestrain and this book is HUGE. 875 pages.
Mar 22, 2026 06:27AM Add a comment
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Alissa
Alissa is on page 13 of 339 of F*CK THIS MURDER
I love these authors for having a thorough spoiler free character list at the start of the book that even includes minor characters and for leaving a line break between paragraphs. This is very middle aged lady friendly since I can't remember shit and I can't see shit.
Mar 13, 2026 10:24AM Add a comment
F*CK THIS MURDER

Alissa
Alissa is 19% done with The Busybody Book Club
So far this is a perfect drive to/from work audiobook. Tropey characters, zero world building. I can give this half my attention and still know what's going on. Decent reader too!
Mar 12, 2026 12:53PM Add a comment
The Busybody Book Club

Alissa
Alissa is 37% done with The Wedding People
The audiobook is driving me slowly mad with "sentence" character says, "another sentence" different character says on and on and on for so many minutes. It's like 6 people (maybe?) in a car and it's never ending.
Mar 03, 2026 03:55PM Add a comment
The Wedding People

Alissa
Alissa is 15% done with The Wedding People
This audiobook needs a disclaimer about SI. It's incredibly depressing, but I've heard good things and while it's throwing me into a hole, it's well written thus far. But if things don't take a turn soon, I'll have to throw in the towel before it makes me feel even worse.
Mar 02, 2026 04:06PM Add a comment
The Wedding People

Alissa
Alissa is 50% done with The Once and Future Witches
Ah, what a relief, I have traded the unlistenable audiobook for a hardback from the library and I'm able to enjoy the story now. I also re-read all that I had listened to and caught a lot more of the nuance since I didn't have to parse the reader's wacky intonation.
Feb 15, 2026 12:53PM Add a comment
The Once and Future Witches

Alissa
Alissa is 30% done with The Once and Future Witches
I'm really struggling with the narrator on this one but the story has me hooked. Might have to switch to text to finish the story.
Feb 05, 2026 02:36PM Add a comment
The Once and Future Witches

Alissa
Alissa is 18% done with The Sugar House (Tess Monaghan, #5)
I have to give up on this as an audiobook because the performance is so overacted and the accents are dreadful. I could handle the nowhere near accurate Baltimore voices because it's a very regional accent, but then Whitney sounded like Scarlet O'Hara. Then poor Jackie rolled in with a crazy accent (she's a fundraising powerhouse for the rich, I doubt she sounds like a racist stereotype) and I returned this one.
Dec 26, 2025 08:24AM Add a comment
The Sugar House (Tess Monaghan, #5)

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