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"This book is pretty awesome."

Audiobook.

Sometimes, you start a book and know from the first paragraph that it is going to be outstanding. This is one of those books.

2025 Audiobook Addicts Reading Challenge, prompt #3: Book that won an award. (2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner)

"As a man who loves books, a bookmark placed by the recently dead always left him sad."

Audiobook. I don't care for the narrator, different from the first two. I'm considering skipping.

Audiobook. I am now in love with three toed sloths. And possibly this book.

Audiobook.

Some great, timeless truths. I wish I'd read this as a young adult.

Audiobook.

Where are the continuity editors? How much are these people paid???? Simple "fact checking" from the last three chapters of the previous book should have been enough! Talk about distracting...

Audiobook.

Sometimes I forget how much I love Dean Koontz, until I start reading him again.

This is a reread, or a listen of a past read (5☆), so far I don't remember it, so it's like new. And just as brilliant as I apparently thought it the first time.

A sincere thank you to the author for an Audible giveaway. This was a "want to get" and I look forward to listening!

Audiobook. A moving story with tragic humanity.

I'm so excited I got an advanced copy! I actually did a happy dance 😁📖😁📖😁

Audiobook. Another wonderful-horrible book about war. WWII and the Japanese detainment centers, told in flashbacks from the point of view of members of a fictional island off the coast of Washington state. I understand it's loosely based on a true story. Well deserved winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

I have to take a break, I'm heartsick. I live in New Jersey and remember this in the news. It's an excellent book and I'll definitely come back to it, but I just want to go out to my white privilege garden and cry.

Chapter 7 of "A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost", De Profundis.

Text: 5 stars; Narration by Stephen Fry: 5 stars.

Extraordinary.

Chapter 7 of "A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost", De Profundis.

Text: 5 stars; Narration by Stephen Fry: 5 stars.

Extraordinary.

As much as I wasn't a fan of the prior narrator (any accent other than southern was questionable at best), at least he understood the characters, having lived with them so long. I hope all is well with him.

The new narrator is reading Constance like a prison warden. It's making my skin crawl. I'm on chapter 6. If it continues like this, I may have to return it and get it in another format.

Audiobook.

I can't take it. The narration is awful!!! When I'm able to read physical books again, I'll have to pick this up.

Audiobook, usually I don't care for romance, but I love Steampunk. The first sex scene moved the plot, now it's becoming gratuitous. In a physical book I would skim, audiobooks if you skip forward you potentially miss plot, so I have to suffer through it.

A detective who you can love to hate.

How to properly pronounce Bangor (Maine or Wales) PSA
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...

Audiobook.

I adored the first book, this one, I'm not so sure. Going to take a break and try to come back to it.

According to Wikipedia, chapter three is considered the most confusing, but in my limited reading, it's my favorite thus far.

With all of the literary and mythology references, it's not at all surprising this was written by someone who taught English.

I read this and the sequel many years ago. Though some of the outline of the story, I'd forgotten how violent it is.

January 21, 2021 I love the anti-Trump jabs. I follow Stephen King on Twitter, I'm glad he found a way to subtly insert the politics into the book.

Egads! Where is the editor? One too many bottles of wine perhaps? I'd put it down but I usually enjoy the plot in the end. It's short, I'll continue to grit my teeth.

Charming 🎄☃️