February Books of the Month

March 20, 2020 by Christina

February feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? I know it was a busy month for me because my calendar is packed with book club meetings, dinner plans with friends, and an introduction to quilting class on Sundays. Yet, from the vantage point of mid-March, it feels unimaginably footloose and fancy free. What did I do when I could go and do whatever I wanted? Well, what I did was read an astonishing 17 books during this month thanks in […]

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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

November 8, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by John Lee. Tantor Media, 2008. 8 hours, 6 minutes. Library copy. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Adiga’s novel centers on Balram Halwai as he writes a letter to the visiting official from China relating his own life as an example of the entrepreneurial spirit possessed by the people of India that China must emulate to continue growing their economy. Over the course of seven nights, Balram explains how he established himself as an […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Asia, Audiobook, Fiction, India • Tags: Aravind Adiga, John Lee

Drood by Dan Simmons

October 22, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by John Lee. Books on Tape, 2009. 29 hours, 49 minutes. Library copy. The British author Wilkie Collins serves as the narrator to Simmons’ novel, and he begins the tale by wagering that the reader has never heard of him let alone read one of his books or seen one of his plays performed. Thanks to the book blogging community, I can assure poor, forgotten Wilkie Collins that is not the case and, thanks again to […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Audiobook, Chunkster, Europe, Fiction, Readalong, United Kingdom • Tags: Dan Simmons, John Lee

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Part Two)

December 7, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Roger Rees and Rosalyn Landor with John Lee and Judy Gleeson. Blackstone Audio, 2009. Originally published 1859. 25 hours, 26 minutes. Library copy. Please don’t take my delay in finishing and posting about Collins’ novel as a lack of interest. It’s entirely due to a lack of time. It was the perfect audiobook for the gym but, alas, school work took over my life and prevented me from going to the gym. I had to […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Audiobook, Chunkster, Classics, Europe, Fiction, Readalong, United Kingdom • Tags: John Lee, Judy Geeson, Roger Rees, Rosalyn Landor, Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Part One)

November 18, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Roger Rees and Rosalyn Landor with John Lee and Judy Gleeson. Blackstone Audio, 2009. Originally published 1859. 25 hours, 26 minutes. Library copy. Collins’ novel exploded onto the blogosphere a few years ago and it seemed liked everyone whom I followed at the time named it one of their favorite novels of the year or a favorite. Period. For me, though, it became one of those novels I put on my TBR list and left […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Audiobook, Chunkster, Classics, Europe, Fiction, Readalong, United Kingdom • Tags: John Lee, Judy Geeson, Roger Rees, Rosalyn Landor, Wilkie Collins