Audiobook Review – Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Winner of Canada Reads 2012 Written By: Carmen Aguirre Narrated By: Carmen Aguirre Published By: Post Hypnotic Press Audiobooks       Length: Unabridged 9 Hrs. 36 Min. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter is  the winner of Canada Reads 2012. It is the account of Vancouver actor, director and playwright Carmen Aguirre a child of Chilean revolutionaries who herself became an active member of the underground resistance during Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1980’s Chile, the war in Peru, the dictatorship in Bolivia,  and further unrest in Argentina. In Chile in 1973, a brutal coup removed the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende from office …

An Object of Beauty: A Novel

Written by Steve Martin, Narrated by Campbell Scott -an audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin I have always been a Steve Martin fan, but like many, a Steve Martin Hollywood fan. I have to admit, I have a problem with the ease that celebrities seem to  have, deservedly or not, in  obtaining publishing contracts.  Consequently it has taken me a while to dip my ambivalent  toe into the Steve Martin as author category, regardless of how endearing I might find Steve Martin, the public icon. So it was with reservations that I picked up Martin’s An Object of Beauty as read by Campbell Scott. And now, you might ask?  Well, …