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Audiobook Review: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

On November 2nd, 2011 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Only Time Will Tell: The Clifton Chronicles, Book  1 Written by: Jeffrey Archer Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox Publisher: Macmillan Audio, August 2011 Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes   Only Time Will Tell is the first installment of a five part sweeping and ambitious work of fiction that purportedly will cover 100 years in history, starting in Bristol after  the end of “the war to end all wars” World War I, and taking us to the dawn of World War II. The narrative is the intriguing life of Harry Clifton, with his humble and secretly burdened beginnings and  his family’s  intertwining fate  with the wealthy Barrington family. A multigenerational, …

The Sherlockian

On February 9th, 2011 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Written by Graham Moore, Narrated by James Langton -an audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin Sherlock Holmes, in both the enduring reality of the character and the ambivalent appreciation expressed towards him by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a rift that caused Doyle to actually kill Holmes off at one point, becomes the  stuff of fiction. Literally.  It is the jumping off  point in Graham Moore’s paean to Holmesiana, The Sherlockian. If you are addicted to Sherlock Holmes, and even if you just have a passing interest,  it would be hard not to be charmed by this clever and nimble romp through the annals of the great detective. The …

Musings, Amusings and Audio Bites

On December 15th, 2010 / By admin /
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