Kirkus Acquires AudioFile
News Summary: Kirkus acquires AudioFile magazine and Andrew Albanese takes the helm at Publishing Perspectives.
AudiobookSYNC
SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. AudiobookSYNC gives participants two thematically paired audiobooks each week.
#Book 14: Regrets Only by Kieran Scott from #GalleryBooks and #SimonSchusterAudio
A solid, fun #mystery involving socially powerful women who send their children to public elementary school in a small town in Connecticut.
More on #Storygraph if you care to look. For my #Audiobook review, see #AudioFileMagazine
#fiction #BookReviews #BookThoughts @bookstodon @audiobooks
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ff7d4117-e88f-459c-82f4-d8a55cdcdd79
Review by bethfishreads - Regrets Only
This is a solid, fun mystery involving a group of socially powerful women who send their child...
#book 5: THE BLACKHOUSE by Carole Johnstone (out now from #Scribner )
An uneven Gothic mystery/thriller set in the Outer Hebrides. Descriptions of the setting were nicely done, but plot & pacing didn't always flow.
The #audiobook was very well done. For more on audiobook see my review in #AudioFileMagazine ; for more thoughts in general, click #StoryGraph link below
#Gothic #mystery #reading #BookThoughts #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon @audiobooks
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1cf82abc-f0a0-4b34-928d-d0d7840473bd
Review by bethfishreads - The Blackhouse
An uneven Gothic thriller/mystery set in the Outer Hebrides.When Maggie Anderson was a little ...
#book 3 for the year: THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding (out soon from #WWNorton )
This character study is based on a dark moment in Maine history: the 1912 forced evacuation of the mixed-race inhabitants of Malaga Island. Beautiful writing; recommended
For my thoughts on the #audiobook see my upcoming review at #AudioFileMagazine For my general thoughts, see #goodreads
#HistoricalFiction #fiction #reading #BookThoughts #BookReview @bookstodon @audiobooks #Bookstodon
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5258099755
Beth's review of This Other Eden
3/5: Really a 3.5 to 3.75. A character study with roots in a dark moment in Maine history. In 1912, the Maine governor forcibly evacuated a small community from their Malaga Island home, claiming the mixed-race inhabitants were morally and mentally deficient. In this book, the island and the people are renamed, but some details and events are taken from history. The empathetic depictions of the people and the poetic descriptions of the island are the stars here. Though poor and undereducated, the inhabitants manage to survive, if not thrive in their own way. While the families love and suppor...
#Book 101 of the year: EXILES by Jane Harper, out in the US in Jan. from #FlatironBooks
This third installment in the Aaron Falk series is set in South Australia's wine country and involves two cold cases and changes in Falk's life. Don't-miss series.
My thoughts are on GoodReads, if you care to take a look. My review of the #audiobook will be published by #AudioFileMagazine
#reading #mystery #books @bookstodon #Bookstodon #bookThoughts #BookReview
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5184154448
Beth's review of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
4/5: This third installment of the Aaron Falk series involves a cold case set in South Australia's wine country and we see some changes in Falk's life. Falk is in the small town of Marralee to attend his godson's christening. The ceremony is set for the same weekend as the local food and wine festival. At last year's festival a woman disappeared, leaving behind her husband and infant daughter and a teenage daughter from an earlier relationship. Though police think the woman committed suicide (yet, no body was found), others think there must be some other explanation. With encouragement from hi...
ALLi Blog (unofficial)
Rev. Dr. Sir Wayne Murillo III
BethFishReads