Double Review: THE TECHNOLOGISTS by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Published February 2012 by Random House Publishing Note: This is both a review of the hardcover edition of The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, self-purchased copy, and a review of the Audiobook, also self-purchased. The Book: I admit, freely and wholeheartedly from the get go, and in the interest of full disclosure, that I have a full-on literary crush on Matthew Pearl. He had me at “The.” However, that being said, if I’d never been lucky enough to be familiar with Mr. Pearl’s work prior to The Technologists, I’d make it my goal to become familiar now. In the aftermath of the recently climaxed Civil …
Audiobook Review: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
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, …
Talking With…Xe Sands
Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration and performance. From poignant young adult fiction to powerful first-person narrative, Sands’ characterizations are rich and expressive and her narrations evocative and intimate. She recently won an AudioFile Earphone Award for her narration of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein. Xe can be found on the web at:www.xesands.com About Audio Books: AA/JP: How did you get your start in audio books? XS: Well, I did not come to narration and VO via traditional avenues of performing arts (theatre, film, radio, etc). I came to it through years of reading to my daughter, time spent …
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