Friday, September 28, 2007
THE WEDNESDAY WARS by Gary D. Schmidt, read by Joel Johnstone
Holling Hoodhood starts his seventh-grade year at odds with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, compounded by the Wednesday afternoons he must spend clapping erasers or dissecting Shakespeare plays. Johnstone’s even voice and pacing finely deliver the humor and the poignant lost chances for understanding.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
THE LONG WALK by Slavomir Rawicz, read by John Lee
In the spring of 1942 Rawicz and four companions walked from the camps of the Siberian Gulag to British India, having journeyed four thousand miles by foot. Lee's narration of this astonishing adventure resonates.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
CHRISTINE FALLS by Benjamin Black, read by Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton offers an excellent, fine-tuned narration of this first in a planned series of crime novels by Booker Prize winner John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. The series features Garret Quirke, an alcoholic Dublin pathologist as quirky as his name.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
THE BLOOMSDAY DEAD by Adrian McKinty, read by Gerard Doyle
A near-perfect marriage of fiction and performance, THE BLOOMSDAY DEAD is a must-listen. Narrator Doyle inhabits the narrator, an Irish ne’er-do-well with a heart of gold, Michael Forsythe. The intimate, virtuoso performance intensifies the taut, gritty writing.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
BLACK MONDAY by R. Scott Reiss, read by Dick Hill
A nasty microbe has infected the world’s oil supply. Dick Hill brings this novel of Armageddon to life with frightening skill. Hill easily slips in and out of American and Middle Eastern accents as he chronicles the day-by-day breakdown of society as gasoline disappears.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
SHARPE'S FURY by Bernard Cornwell, read by Steven Crossley
In the latest of the Captain Sharpe novels, it is 1811 and Sharpe and his men are in Spain, where, in addition to doing battle, he has agreed to help a diplomat retrieve some embarrassing love letters. Crossley’s performance is outstanding, his numerous accents are excellent, and his voices are perfect for the characters.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I GOT SOMEBODY IN STAUNTON by William Henry Lewis, read by Dion Graham, Kevin R. Free, Lizan Mitchell, and Ezra Knight
This audio gem illuminates a contemporary African-American view of family, place, and culture and poignantly reflects on loss, racial turbulence, and multigenerational family life in a way that will change the listener’s perspective on those topics forever.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
ALWAYS SAY GOODBYE by Stuart M. Kaminsky, read by Michael McConnohie
Ever since his wife was killed four years ago, Lew Fonesca has defined himself by grief and depression. But he finally returns to Chicago to track down the killer. McConnohie seamlessly delivers characters who help transform this story of tragedy and redemption into a work that is profound and entertaining.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
CLEMENTINE by Sara Pennypacker, read by Jessica Almasy
Move over, Ramona, Judy Moody, and Junie B.! Clementine, an imaginative third-grader and a great and loyal friend, has arrived. Almasy gives voice to this friendly, funny kid, bringing the precocious, ingenious Clementine to life.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
UP IN HONEY'S ROOM by Elmore Leonard, read by Arliss Howard
Narrator Howard, who demonstrated his mastery of rural American voices in Leonard’s THE HOT KID, returns in a sequel of sorts featuring U.S. Marshal Carl Webster tracking POWs and spy rings in 1945 Detroit. He adds a new repetoire of Leonard's unforgettable characters.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
RESERVATION ROAD by John Burnham Schwartz, read by Cassandra Campbell, Robertson Dean, Arthur Morey
Compelling and disturbing, this novel chronicles grief and reflection as the lives of two families are shattered by the death of a 10-year-old boy. The narrators give controlled performances of individual remembrances and interior monologues that are all the more powerful in their restraint.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
THE INVISIBLE WALL by Harry Bernstein, read by John Lee
Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of an obscure Lancashire mill town before, during, and after WWI would be a daunting task for any narrator. But John Lee carries it off superbly, capturing the intricacies of various accents from a young Russian rabbi to the drunk shopkeepers.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
THE SUSPECT by John Lescroart, read by David Colacci
Colacci carries the day with his smooth presentation of this legal thriller. He capably conveys the tensions and emotions of a hot-tempered husband who fails to accept his perilous situation as the prime suspect in the death of his wife.
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