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June Audiobooks

6/30/2017

 
Wow, this month went by quickly! My book listening was a little below average this month as I only finished 9 books.My reviews are a mixed bag and before you read them please don't be offended if you like a book that I didn't. That's why we have options. What's good to me might be garbage to you. That's why I welcome you to add your own opinions about any of these books on the comments.
I also welcome your recommendations. One of the books this month came from one of your recommendations and I really enjoyed it.
I think my highlights this month were revisiting Joe Pickett, Cork O-Connor and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt in 3 fiction mystery series. In non-fiction I really enjoyed The Elephant Whisperer and Dueling Neurosurgeons.
​What good books have you read recently?
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Off Grid
By CJ Box, Narrated by David Chandler

It's been a year since I've checked in with Joe Pickett. He is a Wyoming game warden who has a habit of getting caught up in some serious crimes beyond his job description. This time it's terrorists using an abandoned sheep ranch in the Red Desert.
If you like lots of action and interesting characters you will enjoy the Joe Pickett series. I haven't read all of them but will start going back and filling in. They are complete enough on their own that you don't really need to read them in order. 
David Chandler is a great voice for Joe and I hope the publisher never changes the narrator for the series.

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean, Narrated by Henry Leyva

I think I picked up this book based on a recommendation that Kristen F posted on one of my book review comments. Yes, I do read your recommendations and often add them to my Audible Wish List.

I know non-fiction isn't in everyone's bailiwick but I love non-fiction and have been on a medical non-fiction fixation lately and this one did not disappoint!

This is the history of brain research told through the tales of the most famous patients of brain research. It's reasonable that what we know about brain function was, largely, based on studying the people whose brains don't function properly. This book takes us on a historical journey to show how we learned about brain function. It's told mostly in layman's terms so that it's easy to understand. It reads like book of short stories and it kept me interested throughout.

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Blood Hollow
By William Kent Krueger, Narrated by David Chandler

This is the 4th book in the Cork O'Connor series. The series is set in a northern Minnesota town near the Anishinaabe Indian reservation. Cork is a former sheriff of the town but gets involved in the case of a murdered teenager when his wife agrees to represent the accused, Solemn Winter Moon. Winter Moon is the girls ex-boyfriend.

At the beginning of the book the case seemed very clear. I couldn't figure out how the story could possibly unfold to need more space but Krueger is a excellent story teller and added a quite surprising ending. I like the characters, I like the town and I like the narrator. There are already 15 books in this series so I need to pick up my reading pace on these.

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Paris
By Edward Rutherfurd, narrated by Jean Gilpin

I think my favorite genre of book is historical fiction, the longer the better. I absolutely love multi-generational books a la Ken Follett, James Michener, Bryce Courtenay and Edward Rutherfurd. I loved his 2-volume books on Ireland, Sarum, London, New York and Russka so I was really looking forward to Paris. 
Now I feel a little let down. It has all the right elements: many generations of several families from all walks of society, hundreds of years of history intermingled with real historical figures. But it is almost impossible to follow (in audio format anyway) because it randomly jumps back and forth in time which makes tracking the characters virtually impossible. It was really confusing for the first 3rd of the book (and this one comes in at 38 hours). I finally got some sort of grip on the characters and events and felt settled in the book. WWI ended and the build up to WWII started and then suddenly we are thrust into the early 17th century and the doings of Cardinal Richelieu.
It's really a good story but if I had a paper copy I'd rip it apart, put it in chronological order and then read it. In the audio version that's not possible and I think that listening to it is too much work for me to recommend it.

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The Girls of Atomic City
by Denise Kiernan, narrated by Cassandra Campbell

Very little of this book is about women who worked at Oak Ridge. Yes, there are women whose "stories" are carried through the book but really only anecdotal. These aren't the women of Hidden Figures who made major contributions to social change at NASA and to the space race. The women in this book are real people but  represent thousands of women who worked during WWII. 
The majority of the book is simply general history about the creation of the atomic bomb, the decision to drop it and the aftermath. Frankly, there are better books about that. This one is way to disjointed and the "girls" stories don't really add anything relevant to the telling. That's not meant as an insult to the women who worked there. It's meant as commentary of the poor writing job of the author.

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The Shark
by Mary Burton, narrated by Christina Traister

If you like romance novels and mystery novels you will like this one. The plot is actually pretty interesting and I thought I'd like the fact that the main character lives in Ashland, VA, my little town. But the author doesn't really use the local Richmond area landmarks. There's a scene that obviously takes place at The Jefferson Hotel but she doesn't even mention it. So the location could have been anywhere. 

I'm not a big fan of romance novels and I'm not sure how I ever picked it in the first place. It was probably a Deal of the Day.. It's the first in a series about a Riley Tatum, a state trooper. She arrives on an murder scene and is sees that her new case might be related to something that happened to her in Louisiana 12 years ago. I liked the plot a lot but didn't love the telling.

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The Elephant Whisperer
by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
narrated by Simon Vance

You might remember a book called Elephant Company that I read (and loved) last year. Coincidentally, it was June of last year. I guess June is now elephant month.

I don't have a particular fascination with elephants. Mostly I just like good books about things that I know little about. 

This book is about a herd of troubled elephants that Lawrence Anthony accepted on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand. These elephants has escaped so many times that if he had not taken them they were going to be destroyed. They escaped again the first day he had them on the new reserve but he eventually earned their trust and today Thula Thula has 2 healthy herds. It is a lovely story about the reserve, the elephants and some of the amazing things that happen in the wild. It's well written and perfectly narrated by Simon Vance. 

Fun fact: Lawrence Anthony is the person who went into Baghdad during the Gulf War to save as many animals as possible. There's a book about that too.


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To Speak For The Dead
by Paul Levine, narrated by Luke Daniels

Jake Lassiter is a former football player sidelined due to injury so he became a lawyer instead. The story opens with him defending a surgeon against a medical malpractice case. During the trial he learns that his defendant had a relationship with the victim's wife, a former exotic dancer. Add in the dead man's angry daughter, a retired coroner who hates being retired and a body building chauffeur/boat captain/"personal assistant" and maybe it's not malpractice afterall.

I was kind of excited to read this book because it's the first in a long series. I envisioned another fun series to follow and I do like legal thrillers. Instead, what I got was something like Carl Hiaason trying to write like Michael Connelly. It wasn't a good legal thriller because of the idiotic decisions that Jake Lassiter makes. However, with a little clever writing it could have crossed over into humor based on all of those stupid decisions and one more small step toward stupid for the characters. 

Instead we are to believe that an attorney would team up with a retired coroner to rob a grave, that the same defense attorney would agree to meet with main prosecution witness late at night in the middle of a Florida swamp and that a judge reads the racing forms while presiding over trials. You also have to endure a LOT of football references. I love football and it got tedious even to me.

Some years ago I read part of the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods. The series wasn't my cup of tea but if you like Stuart Woods I think you would like Paul Levine.

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Cardington Crescent
by Anne Perry, narrated by Davina Porter

This is the 8th book in the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. Charlotte's sister Emily and her husband are visiting with family in Cardington Crescent when her husband is murdered and Emily is a prime suspect.

I am reading 2 of Anne Perry's series, this one and the Monk series. Both are set in Victorian England and draw contrast between the lives of society people, working class and poor. In this series Charlotte moves between both because she married a police officer, much below her class. She and her sister remain close.

Anne Perry is a very good writer. I love how she develops her characters and builds her plot. These aren't deep and complex mysteries but you can easily imagine that the characters are accurate to the time period. They are always a good read and Davina Porter is an outstanding narrator.

Laceflower
6/30/2017 10:41:48 am

I absolutely love Davina Porter and will get this series just to have her read to me. The narrator can make or break a book for me. I was just listening to a murder mystery and it was told from both the detective's pov and the killer's pov and the voices for each weren't enough different to tell who it was. It took me a while to even understand that the telling was two povs!

Karen Goad link
6/30/2017 11:29:50 am

thanks for your reviews as always - I almost always find at least one if not 2-3 to try out from your review. As far as romance novels go I prefer the books where it is not actually that much of a romance going on but the murder mystery or spy thing as the main story - something about romances are usually kind of sappy and too light for me but if I want a very light read for an afternoon on the porch they will do - I like a story that will have twists and turns - having you where you can not put the book down - rather than a romance where I can usually sit it down and then forget what the story even was when I go back to it two or three days later.

Hedy
7/1/2017 07:06:30 am

Thanks for the review about the brain surgeons. Because I have lived with two people who had brain issues, I am completely fascinated with how the brain works. I also had a minor stroke and I am always surprised what I can remember or not. I'll definitely have to read this book.

Beth-near Louisville, KY!
7/1/2017 07:38:06 am

I read (book) the Elephant Whisperer while living in South Africa and his Baghdad Zoo. Loved the Elephants... story, the zoo not so much. Recently read (listened to) the Night Circus by Erin Morganstern and don't recommend it for the same out of order chapters reason that you gave above. It was a Daily Deal.

Gene Black
7/1/2017 08:47:15 am

I put The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons on my wish list. I am thinking that I might really enjoy it.

Yesterday I finished listening to a book that I consider an old friend. "To Kill a Mockingbird" read by Sissy Spacek. She did a wonderful job of making the characters come alive. While I know the story fairly well, hearing it read is a different experience. I highly recommend it.

Kristin F
7/2/2017 12:14:39 pm

I may have to investigate listening to audio books. It always amazes me how many you get through each month.

I just found something from my library that you may be interested in: https://meet.libbyapp.com/. Their site states: "Did you know your local library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks? You can borrow them, instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand."

I just read two books that you might enjoy. My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith (who wrote the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series - did you read these? I have started them and find them very charming). This is light reading (fiction) with a couple of interesting life observations.

The other book is The Sound of a Wild Snail eating - a non-fiction book about a woman's convalesence in bed where she has the opportunity to watch a snail in a flower pot. Although it may not sound interesting, I found that it was and it got great reviews. It is well-written and I learned a number of unusual facts about snails.

Mary Anne link
7/3/2017 06:21:24 pm

I'm always happy to see one of your book review posts - have found several good authors from your suggestions, as well as those from some of the comments.

Marie
7/23/2017 12:20:17 pm

I recently discovered your blog and truly enjoy it. Love the book reviews since I too am an avid audiobook reader.
If you haven't already, check out the Maise Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear and narrated by Orlagh Cassidy.

Terri link
7/28/2017 07:33:52 pm

Hi Vicki!

I always love your book reviews and appreciate your thoughtful synopsis of each. I have just recently finished the Cork O'Connor series and truly enjoyed them all. William Krueger Kent also wrote "Ordinary Grace" which was an excellent story.


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      • Adding backing on the longarm
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