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Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.
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- De Anon893 en 05-03-19
De: Kate McKinnon, y otros
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
- One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes
- De: Jessica Pan
- Narrado por: Jessica Pan
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
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Encouraging memoir: Sorry, cheer
- De Aaron Menz en 07-03-23
De: Jessica Pan
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids…And Other Small Events That Changed History
- De: Phil Mason
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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They just throw the facts too fast
- De Concerned_llama en 12-11-20
De: Phil Mason
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Hot White Heist 2
- De: Adam Goldman
- Narrado por: Bowen Yang, Jane Lynch, Cynthia Nixon, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
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Two years after successfully melting down the top secret sperm bank under the Space Needle, the CLITO collective (Community of Lesbians Inclusive To Others) is thriving on their newly acquired private island, Lesbos 2. All is well in their queer utopia. Or is it? Investigative reporter Sarah Keebler (Sarah Steele) is piecing together the crew's previous heist for her bombshell true-crime podcast–and getting dangerously close to the truth.
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Love Bowen Yang
- De Sheena Bambus en 03-15-24
De: Adam Goldman
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Cut and Thirst
- A Short Story
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 1 h y 2 m
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Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta.
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Made me want a G&T
- De C. Seaver en 06-11-24
De: Margaret Atwood
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Made in America
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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Bryson Not Reading Makes For a Rare Fail
- De John en 02-28-14
De: Bill Bryson
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The Pisces
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Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection.
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What just happened?
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Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings and that quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter.
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Gross and poorly written
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How to Fall Out of Love Madly
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Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling deeper into a hellscape of her own making.
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her.
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Funny and uncomfortable
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Blue Sisters
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The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.
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I'm a Fan
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Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world. I’m a Fan offers a devastating critique of class, social media, patriarchy’s hold on us, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.
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Razor sharp cultural commentary
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The Pisces
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Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection.
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What just happened?
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Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings and that quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter.
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Gross and poorly written
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How to Fall Out of Love Madly
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Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling deeper into a hellscape of her own making.
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Loved
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her.
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Funny and uncomfortable
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Blue Sisters
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- De: Coco Mellors
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The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.
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I'm a Fan
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Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world. I’m a Fan offers a devastating critique of class, social media, patriarchy’s hold on us, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.
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Razor sharp cultural commentary
- De E. Espinoza en 05-14-24
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Ripe
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- De: Sarah Rose Etter
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
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A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of unhoused people bathing in the bay. Start-up burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains, and men literally set themselves on fire in the streets.
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EG, Sorry to say it doesn't get any better
- De Alexis_Vandew en 08-18-23
De: Sarah Rose Etter
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Chlorine
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- De: Jade Song
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho, Imani Parks
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Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life.
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So much mislisting going on here
- De K. Apgar en 06-30-23
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Perfume and Pain
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- De: Anna Dorn
- Narrado por: Natalie Naudus
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Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer’s group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leaves her and her career lightly canceled. But she temporarily forgets all that by throwing herself into a few sexy distractions—like Ivy, a grad student researching 1950s lesbian pulp who smells like metallic orchids, or her new neighbor, Penelope, who smells like patchouli.
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Hilarious!!
- De Marilyn en 05-22-24
De: Anna Dorn
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Nightbitch
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- De: Rachel Yoder
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
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If you don’t get it just say so
- De Stephanie Rzonca en 02-19-22
De: Rachel Yoder
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Ghosts
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- De: Dolly Alderton
- Narrado por: Holliday Grainger
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Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry.
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I’m glad I bought this on accident
- De James M. en 06-13-22
De: Dolly Alderton
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Motherthing
- De: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrado por: Adina Verson
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When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.
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Mixed feelings on this book.
- De April Ames-Harrison en 01-01-23
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Vacuum in the Dark
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- De: Jen Beagin
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
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Mona is 26 and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend - a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story - and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. Dark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster, either.
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Disgusting!
- De Kindle Customer en 02-27-19
De: Jen Beagin
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Rouge
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- De: Mona Awad
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
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For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience.
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What a fun romp!
- De Barbara S en 10-10-23
De: Mona Awad
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Private Rites
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- De: Julia Armfield
- Narrado por: Hannah van der Westhuysen
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.
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With Teeth
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- De: Kristen Arnett
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
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If she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood, she tries her best—driving, cleaning, cooking, prodding him to finish projects for school—while growing increasingly resentful of Monika, her confident but absent wife.
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Whoa~!
- De Maryanne T. en 12-22-21
De: Kristen Arnett
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Brutes
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- De: Dizz Tate
- Narrado por: Eleanor McCormick
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In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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No idea what was happening at any time
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-24
De: Dizz Tate
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Dykette
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- De: Jenny Fran Davis
- Narrado por: Alex Schmidt
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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For fans of Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby and HBO’s Search Party—Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette is an addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two older queer couples.
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Classic mfa brooklyn vibes
- De Sasha en 11-19-23
De: Jenny Fran Davis
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Death Valley
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- Olivia
- 03-03-24
Nice, Short Read
If you like listening to NPR, this is a great book for you. Both the story and the narrator remind me of This American Life.
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- Melissa P
- 12-08-23
Strong voice
Our narrator was funny and had one foot squarely in mundanity and one in fantasy
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- Micaela Devaney
- 11-30-23
Love the poetic language about humanness, love and death
Not my usual style of book to read. But I enjoyed it. I really like Melissa's poetic style, easy to follow prose, honesty, self reflection and relatability. While the trippy cactus stuff is not my thing, I could relate to the spirituality search of it all-- the search for the meaning of life, love and oneself. I had a chronically sick mother and wrestled with all the same feelings of rage and guilt and love. I also lost my father in 2019 and was very close with him. We can all hopefully relate to the death and the feelings surrounding the loss of a parent. If we do that means we have outlived our parents-- which is the way it is supposed to go. I really, really liked Milkfed. I really liked this book. I should give her first book another try. I commend Broder's honesty and relatable humanness. I like her introspection and humor. Give her a try. I also commend her on trying different genres
and styles of writing and taking a risk. That is living!
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- Barbara S
- 10-22-23
Broder is the perfect narrator!
I experienced a rocky start with this one. At first, I was turned off by some raunchy language. I just wasn’t in the mood. Reading reviews made me want to go back.
I’m happy that I did return to the story. After I turned off my “crabby lady” inner voice and listened to the story, I became intrigued. The unnamed narrator’s babbling has a deep well producing that babble.
She is a 40-something married novelist who feels she is dry of ideas. Her father is in the ICU after a devastating car crash. She is worried about her father dying. Her husband is housebound and disabled. She is stressed. So, she decides to take a short trip to Death Valley for inspiration. She expects a desert-based epiphany.
She checks herself into a Best Western. (Thank you, author Broder, for the quirky characters and abundant hotel humor.) After much self-babble, she determines a long walk in the desert might inspire her. She’s a spiritual seeker after all. She perceives “wandering around in the desert, there’s no need to play hard to get with God”. Of course there will be a fork in the road..
There’s a cactus. There are bunnies. A vicious teen bunny. There are stones, all colors. But it’s in the cactus that Broder’s imagination shines. Broder does a great job with the narrator’s self-rumination which are critical with some therapy self-talk thrown in. Her are observations unique and brilliant.
This is a meditation on loss and grief. It’s clever.
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- Deborah
- 10-13-23
Tone of Story Was a Difficult to Figure Out Until Too Late
This made it hard to know how to take the author/character. Was it satire? Was she delusional? Clearly a little neurotic at the very least. And the profound moments came, but they were a bit too little too late. I lost my husband last year and did find some understanding and redemption in myself as a caregiver. So in that regard it was insightful. But just overall slightly off/delayed/lacking. Why do I feel as if this book will eat at me and I’ll listen again in hopes of a better understanding. The narration was on point!
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- Robert MacLeodAmazon Customer
- 12-13-23
Monumentally Terrible
I finish every book I start. Never was that resolve so sorely tested as with Death Valley.
I would only recommend this book to a friend who had an immediate and critical need for paper; to be used for sanitary purposes.
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- Honest Abe
- 10-12-23
Couldn't tell if she was on an acid trip
I like the voice of the narrorator but the story was just such a struggle to get through. I thought this was going to be more of a fantasy book where she gets lost inside this cactus and goes into a whole other world. But definitely not that. Maybe thats why it was so hard to get through. it was like a combination of never ending story and someone on an acid trip but with out the bright colors. Nothing made sense and hard to follow. I will not read this book again that's for sure.
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- Mary Allardt
- 01-28-24
Boring
I listened for quite a while, but nothing grabbed my interest. Yes, I feel sorry for the main character, but that wasn’t any good reason to continue, so I did not finish. 
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- Murray Bartholomew
- 11-14-23
What a Waste
The author takes self-indulgence and reader patience to new levels. Granted perhaps the point was to let us flail with her through her lack of consciousness, lack of empathy and lack of regard for all her fellow characters - from the struggling physical health of her father and husband, the dive-bombing mental health of herself, her mother and to every human she encounters.
Thankfully the her handling of characters from the animal and mineral kingdom were creative and interesting but her insistence on anthropomorphizing them, revealed yet another level of author failings.
That the reader is expected to find any empathy at all for her naval gazing in a sea of shortcomings is laughable. But this is not a comedy, this is a thirty something woman from L.A. who walks into the desert without a map and can only tell time or direction home from a cell phone that goes dead mid-way through her ordeal. Her saga is a sad testament to an age of knowledge that seems to stem only from connectivity to the internet and an author who can’t read the simple direction of a rising and setting sun. This is a dry gulch of a read without a secret spring in sight.
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- Jimmy white
- 01-07-24
Pretty Description of Nature
This book was not my cup of tea. I felt it was slow and drawn out. Nice descriptions of nature.
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