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Emily, Alone
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It’s been a long while since we first met the Maxwell family in Stewart O’Nan’s Wish You Were Here, which follows Emily, the widowed family matriarch, on one final summer trip to Lake Chautauqua with her two troubled children and four confused grandchildren. O’Nan’s gift for character study is truly in evidence as Emily, Alone picks up the thread with the title character now approaching 80, yet feeling instantly familiar.
Emily’s life may still have a few unexpected turns left, but it’s the deep, daily psychology that makes for such a moving portrait. Andrea Gallo narrates the intensely nuanced calculations of old age with grace and clarity, putting in a touch of gravel when Emily’s emotional strength occasionally fails, such as when she watches her equally ancient sister-in-law pass out and cut her forehead on the other side of the salad bar. Arlene, the sister-in-law, and Rufus, her old cocker spaniel, provide excellent sidekick material. Despite the cloudy skies of memory, there are plenty of laughs, as everybody is trying not to break a hip.
Gallo’s voice gives such an elegant texture to Emily’s thoughts, and never overreaches to garner sympathy. Her forthright manner is completely befitting of this woman who is crumbling just like her beloved Pittsburgh is crumbling. Whether Emily is contemplating the dusty old car she hasn’t driven in more than a decade, the unabashed real estate scramble going on at the brownstone for sale next door, or the grandchildren who are growing up and away from her, the tension is palpable. On the level of plot, one couldn’t say this novel is very action-packed. Yet between O’Nan’s lines and Gallo’s voice, there lurks something devastatingly suspenseful as Emily inches along the remainder of her mortality. Whether enjoyed as a sequel or on its own, this is a novel that haunts. Megan Volpert
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A sequel to the best-selling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of vists by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood, but when her sole companion and sister-in-law Arlene faints at their favorite breakfast buffet, Emily's days change. As she grapples with her new independence, she discovers a hidden strength and realizes that life always offers new possibilities. Like most older women, Emily is a familiar yet invisible figure, one rarely portrayed so honestly. Her mingled feelings-of pride and regret, joy and sorrow- are gracefully rendered in wholly unexpected ways.
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- A Novel
- De: Heather Lloyd
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Venus Black is a straitlaced A student fascinated by the study of astronomy - until the night she commits a shocking crime that tears her family apart and ignites a media firestorm. Venus refuses to talk about what happened or why, except to blame her mother. Adding to the mystery, Venus’ developmentally challenged younger brother, Leo, goes missing. More than five years later, Venus is released from prison with a suitcase of used clothes, a fake identity, and a determination to escape her painful past.
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Loved it!
- De Yikes en 03-24-18
De: Heather Lloyd
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Henry, Himself
- A Novel
- De: Stewart O'Nan
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master.
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Nothing Happens If You're Okay With That 3.5*
- De Sharlotte en 03-06-20
De: Stewart O'Nan
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Last Night at the Lobster
- De: Stewart O'Nan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster hasn't been making its numbers, and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift. With only four shopping days left until Christmas, Manny must convince his near-mutinous staff to hunker down and serve the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and holiday office parties.
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- De Richard en 12-08-10
De: Stewart O'Nan
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Ocean State
- De: Stewart O'Nan
- Narrado por: Sara Young
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the buildup to and fallout from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister, Marie.
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I Am Mad
- De K. Maxwell en 03-18-22
De: Stewart O'Nan
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Any Other Family
- De: Eleanor Brown
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Lindsey Dorcus, Sean Patrick Hopkins, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Though they look like any other family, they aren’t one—not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the heart of the family, the adoptive mothers grapple to define themselves and their new roles. Tabitha, who adopted the twins, crowns herself planner of the group, responsible for endless playdates and holidays, determined to create a perfect happy family.
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What is a family?
- De Barbara S en 07-27-22
De: Eleanor Brown
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The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
- De: Laura Pearson
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
- Duración: 11 h
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Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he’s still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: ‘Find D’. Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she hasn’t seen since the fateful day she left more than sixty years ago.
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cozy till the lesbian girl showed up
- De Gary en 01-11-24
De: Laura Pearson
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My Name Is Venus Black
- A Novel
- De: Heather Lloyd
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Venus Black is a straitlaced A student fascinated by the study of astronomy - until the night she commits a shocking crime that tears her family apart and ignites a media firestorm. Venus refuses to talk about what happened or why, except to blame her mother. Adding to the mystery, Venus’ developmentally challenged younger brother, Leo, goes missing. More than five years later, Venus is released from prison with a suitcase of used clothes, a fake identity, and a determination to escape her painful past.
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Loved it!
- De Yikes en 03-24-18
De: Heather Lloyd
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The Pages of Her Life
- De: James L. Rubart
- Narrado por: Sandra Dee Robinson
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Allison Moore is making it. Barely. The Seattle area architecture firm she started with her best friend is struggling, but at least they’re free from the games played by the corporate world. She’s gotten over her divorce. And while her dad’s recent passing is tough, their relationship had never been easy. Then the bomb drops. Her dad had a secret life and left her mom in massive debt. As Allison scrambles to help her mom find a way out, she’s given a journal, anonymously, during a visit to her favorite coffee shop.
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Horrible
- De LostieCat161 en 06-05-19
De: James L. Rubart
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What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw
- De: Leah Stewart
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Newly famous actor Charlie Outlaw said too much in an interview, and now his fans have turned on him, and his girlfriend, actress Josie Lamar, has left him. He's fled to a remote island in search of anonymity, but his solitary hike into the jungle takes him into danger he never anticipated. As Charlie struggles with gaining fame, Josie struggles with its loss. The star of a cult TV show in her early 20s, Josie has spent the 20 years since searching for a role to equal that one, and feeling less and less like her character, the heroic Bronwyn Kyle.
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It was something to listen to
- De Michael M. en 10-05-21
De: Leah Stewart
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The Rachel Incident
- A Novel
- De: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrado por: Tara Flynn
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.
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- De LG en 01-12-24
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Go Ask Fannie
- De: Elisabeth Hyde
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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When Murray Blaire invites his three grown children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects them to keep things pleasant. The rest of his agenda - using Ruth and George to convince their younger sister, Lizzie, to break up with her much older boyfriend - that he chooses to keep private. But Ruth and George arrive bickering, with old scores to settle. And, in a classic Blaire move, Lizzie derails everything when she turns up late, cradling a damaged family cookbook, and talking about possible criminal charges against her.
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Family secrets, regrets and memories
- De Groovy-book-girl en 10-30-19
De: Elisabeth Hyde
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The Orphan Keeper
- De: Camron Wright
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life - and his destiny - is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.
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5 Star Worthy
- De Kari en 10-26-16
De: Camron Wright
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The Nix
- A Novel
- De: Nathan Hill
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 21 h y 42 m
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It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart.
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Is There An Editor In The House??
- De Sara en 11-03-16
De: Nathan Hill
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How the Penguins Saved Veronica
- De: Hazel Prior
- Narrado por: Helen Lloyd, Andrew Fallaize, Mandy Williams
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to which to leave her fortune. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the scientists she's coming to visit - and won't take no for an answer. Shortly after arriving, she convinces the reluctant team to rescue an orphaned baby penguin. He becomes part of life at the base, and Veronica's closed heart starts to open.
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A mostly pleasant story
- De Kristyn Rose en 02-28-21
De: Hazel Prior
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The Sweetness of Forgetting
- De: Kristin Harmel
- Narrado por: Kim McKean
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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At 36, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a 22-year-old, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Now, Hope’s beloved French-born grandmother Mamie, who wowed the Cape with her fabulous pastries for more than 50 years, is drifting away into a haze of Alzheimer’s. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Arming her with a scrawled list of names, she sends Hope to France.
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the WORST narration I have ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- De lori mishcon en 09-10-13
De: Kristin Harmel
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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Maurice
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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'Ah for darkness...not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!' Maurice Hall knows he must choose between living life in the shadows or denying himself a chance at love and fulfilment. Aware of his attraction to the same sex, in a time where it was considered unlawful and immoral to have homosexual desires, Maurice must decide whether to battle or submit to a prejudiced 20th-century English society.
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Finally!!! It's past time!
- De Christopher P. en 11-18-10
De: E. M. Forster
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
- A Novel
- De: Tom Hanks
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
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I could never stay married to an actor,
- De PattyQB en 05-11-23
De: Tom Hanks
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The Lonely Hearts Book Club
- De: Lucy Gilmore
- Narrado por: Angie Kane
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another.
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Enjoyed every minute
- De Laura en 06-04-23
De: Lucy Gilmore
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Emily, Alone
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- John S.
- 07-23-12
Examination of a mundane existence
Having found O'Nan's "Snow Angels" a bit grim, but well-written, and" Last Night at the Lobster" equally well-written, and not nearly as sad as I'd feared, I spent a credit on this book ... which is very well-written, and not at all grim. Like "Lobster", it's character-driven; however, in a full-length novel (the other was a novella) that's tougher to pull off. Listening to the audio may have contributed as the short chapters (more or less) ran together, whereas a print book would've seemed less daunting (for lack of a better term).
Having lived a roughly parallel life to Emily's kids, I can vouch that O'Nan completely nailed the character aspect, although the isolation of Emily (and her sister-in-law) seemed a bit overdone to me. It may seem incongruous, but it is accurate that someone who buys a new car in cash would make a point of remembering to bring a restaurant coupon for a couple of bucks off.
There's almost no tension in the novel, except for a bit between Emily and her daughter, and daughter-in-law; the latter almost entirely "off screen" filtered from Emily's point-of-view, leading to me wonder whether that had been covered already in the previous book "Wish You Were Here". Instead, those chapters consist of Emily's reactions to various situations: new neighbors taking the place of the last other "old guard" resident (my folks were about the last to go in their neighborhood after 35 years), Election Day (she votes for McCain, unenthusiastically), etc. One vignette has her attending the funeral of an old friend, who's survived by a same sex partner - Emily is pleased to note that the woman's (biological) family accords her "widow" status. Later, she expresses disappointment that she hasn't gotten to meet her granddaughter's partner (they live in Boston). Demographically, seniors may be the strongest group opposed to gays, but O'Nan has made it clear that educated WASP's are an exception. One episode I didn't care for was Emily's refusal to try a product recommended by her cleaning lady for dealing with car scratches, with its class-conscious dismissal; instead she moans about paying $500 to the dealership. She also sneers at the woman's "Butler" accent.
The lack of action is at least partially compensated for by the author's sense of place. I've never been to Pittsburgh, but came away seeing the area clearly - and I'm not that "visual" a reader. Granted, he does get carried away at times: it wasn't really necessary to go through all the choices on the salad bar at the (coupon) restaurant in an early episode.
So - would I recommend the book? Yes, if one bears in mind that each chapter is a small part of a larger whole, that doesn't really contain a traditional story arc. If you're new to O'Nan, however, I'd go with Lobster first.
Audio narration itself was overall good, although at times it seemed even Ms. Gallo was overcome by the task of maintaining interest in quite mundane matters.
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- Mary
- 08-06-12
Lots of insights and truths about aging
What did you love best about Emily, Alone?
I identified with Emily, for better or worse, because I am getting up there myself. It seemed an accurate description of life at the end.
What did you like best about this story?
The insights
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
There were times when it made me angry because she was a good person, but forgotten by most people. It was true to life as you get old.
Any additional comments?
I don't know if younger readers would get it, or care, but anyone approaching or living in old age would be pleased to read about an everyday woman at this stage of life who is not boring or feeling sorry for herself but speaking the truth.
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- Margaret
- 05-13-11
The Invisible Woman
I loved this novel for its rare protagonist, the invisible woman. This story is about what at least 50% of us will become at some time in the future; an elderly woman. Emily is adaptable to the changes occurring in her life, and makes the best of them. Nothing earthshaking happens, just like in real life. The tedium and the risks, of her life are given equal time. Many pages are devoted to one sided conversations between Emily and Rufus her aging springer spaniel...... thankfully the dog does not die, he soldiers on just like Emily.
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- Carolyn
- 05-23-11
I've Met Her
It is difficult to imagine how a male author could capture the persona of a woman near her ninith year.
A widow, Emily faces the end days with practical courage. O'Nan paints her world with a balanced brush. You see her come to understand how her sometimes strained relationships with her children are not that much different than hers with her mother. Emily's health is remarkable; she has a comfortable living allowing her to keep the self reliance that has supported her since the death of her beloved husband. No whine and moan for Emily, she soldiers on determined to make the best of each day. The narrator is perfect for the part. This is not a book for someone looking for adventure or drama. However, if like me, you are a woman of a certain age looking for a gentle read about someone you might just know, this is the book for you. I found it a book with a lot of food for thought about my own life.
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- Teresa
- 05-17-11
Wonderful book - insight into aging
Loved this book. A sensitive insight into the life of an aging woman. O'Nan doesn't pull any punches, but listening, I had the impression he really cared about Emily.
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- Kathleen McDonald
- 06-07-11
Emily is an admirable woman
This story about a time in the life of an eighty year old woman is so real that one wonders how a young man could have written it. The cares and concerns of this demographic are right on target - carrying on after the death of the husband, worrying about the ability to drive his big boat of a car, needing yet chafing under the somewhat clawing friendship of a female contemporary, coming to grips with her flawed children who will never be all she had hoped and recognizing the deterioration of her formerly capable body. This was a moving and enjoyable book. I know lots of women like Emily, women who continue to be productive well into their nineties and beyond. They are my heros and Emily is right up there among them.
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- daughter1216
- 06-11-19
Tedious
This was particularly painful to me to listen to. I really don't need to hear how they split a sandwich, couldn't eat it all, then wrapped the rest to take home for later. Really?! Obviously many readers enjoyed this, but this one is not for me.
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- "unknown"
- 09-25-11
the most boring book I ever listened to
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
someone with no window to look out of
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
disappointment
Any additional comments?
I kept listening all the way to end, thinking it just had to get better. It never did.
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- L G Spicher
- 09-15-19
Kept waiting for this book to begin.
A book about nothing that never got good.
I wish I count get my money back.
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- S. Honeycutt
- 05-17-23
I wanted to love it
I listened to Henry, Himself just before this one so I had high hopes because I liked that one so much. This was just tedious. Boring, boring, boring. And the narration did nothing to help it, tho she had little to work with in the story. Super disappointed.
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