⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Based on a true story. Carl Lundmark, our narrator, is living the dream - a high-powered finance career, earning the money and freedom to live an independent life in London far away from the little Swedish town where he was raised and where he always felt like…
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Anna and her husband Alan, expats from London and Scotland, respectively, escape to the beautiful isle of Mallorca, where Anna writes for a local newspaper and provides this fictionalized travelogue (#7 in the series), a narrative of her ongoing encounters with the local populace, wild life,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What happens when an erudite, bookish, somewhat naive young man of twenty-two hailing from NYC decides to “escape leading the life expected of him and winds up leading a life he had never expected for himself” ? Our narrator is an unidentified individual who is telling…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I had no idea what to expect in a book with such a strange title. So I looked it up. Sophomania: A delusion of having superior knowledge. And armed with that definition, as you now are, I began reading one of the most unusual mysteries I’ve…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Spellbinding. Poignant. Inspirational. Brimming with the naturalism of Barbara Kingsolver and the authenticity of Anne Tyler, this book reached and filled a Covid-fueled paucity I wasn’t fully aware of. “What was there to be afraid of in this place where everything was as you saw it -…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I had no idea what to expect on approaching this book - and ended up being totally blown away by it. A collection of eight stories created by the unique voices of a set of authors on the spectrum for autism, this book represents an exciting foray…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Like sinking down on a pillowy featherbed, from the very first pages this book enveloped me. Layered with richly textured characters, (and reminiscent to me of reading Joanna Trollope, or even Kate Atkinson) this lovely book reminds us of the power of emotional connection to heal…