Picture Book Biography - Yayoi Kusama From Here to Infinity by Sarah Suzuki

Illustrated by Ellen Weinstein
with reproductions of works by Yayoi Kusama

2017, Museum of Modern Art, NY

HC $19.95
Not in Cumberland County Library system, Interlibrary Loan from Dauphin County

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  3.82 - 182 ratings

My rating:  4
Endpapers:  The title page is the opening endpaper and the copyright information and list of MOMA trustees is the ending endpaper.

1^st line/s:  "Yayoi Kusama was born in the country of Japan, on the island of Honshu, in a town called Matsumoto City."

My comments: Although the author says "She is widely considered to be the most popular artist in the world,"  I was completely unaware of Yayoi Kusama and her work!  I feel like a have a pretty decent grip on art and artists, but this has shown me that I have to check out more contemporary artists.  This is the story of her artistic life -born in 1929 in Japan, moved to NYC in the 1950's, and still going strong today, She is famous for her dots and squiggles, installations, and even fabric.  The text of the book was pretty basic, and I didn't get any sense of time, and none was mentioned.  When I read, "It was her first airplane trip.  There were only four other passengers, and the weather was stormy, with rain and lightning.  The airplane wobbled and dipped as it flew to America." I was like....what? ..... until reading the added bibliographic information at the end I realized this would have been in the 1950s.  No sense of that from the text, or even illustrations.The illustrations are pretty cool, and the reproductions of actual work are a great addition to the story.

Goodreads:  Growing up in the mountains of Japan, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) dreamed of becoming an artist. One day, she had a vision in which the world and everything in it—the plants, the people, the sky—were covered in polka dots. She began to cover her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and even her body with dots. As she grew up, she traveled all around the world, from Tokyo to Seattle, New York to Venice, and brought her dots with her. Different people saw these dots in different ways—some thought they were tiny, like cells, and others imagined them enormous, like planets. Every year, Kusama sees more of the world, covering it with dots and offering people a way to experience it the way she does.
           Written by Sarah Suzuki, a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, and featuring reproductions of Kusama’s instantly recognizable artworks, this colorful book tells the story of an artist whose work will not be complete until her dots cover the world, from here to infinity

92. A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart by Scott William Carter

#5 Garrison Gage
listened - Audible/own
narrated by Steven Roy Grimsley
Unabridged audio (11:04)
2017 Flying Raven Press
406 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 9/26/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.19 - 219 ratings
My rating:  3.5
Setting: Contemporary Coastal Oregon

First line/s:  "The ocean churned, wild and unforgiving, buffeting the boat from all sides."

My comments:  Didn't enjoy this quite as much as some of the previous, though it was entertaining and not unlikable.  In this one, Gage does some sleuthing for a very famous female singer - who he ends up having a relationships with - before she is kidnapped.  Quite a bit of on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense and adventure, and lots and lots of hand-to-hand, face-to-face fighting.

Goodreads synopsis:  They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse—Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thinks little of it until the famous Nora West sneaks into town with an unsettling letter in hand.
          Professing he wants to go to his grave with a clear conscience, Ed claims to be Nora's biological father. But the revelation stirs up all kinds of complicated emotions for the talented but troubled musician, who hires Gage to find out the truth.
          Yet the truth may be a lot more disturbing — and dangerous — than either of them expect.

91. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

listened to Audio, not sure where (!*!) but also own Kindle
read by Kathleen Early
Unabridged audio (20:00)
2015 William Morrow
548 pgs.
Adult mystery
Finished 9/20/2019
Goodreads rating:  3.99 - 142,952 ratings
My rating:  2

First line/s:  "When you first disappeared your mother warned me that finding out exactly what had happened to you would be worse than never knowing."

My comments:  Well.  I'm not sure how to begin this review.  There were a few pros but lots of cons.  What should I start with?
The cons:
     -It was super repetitive.  Endless "thinking aloud."  Super slow in many places.  Dragged in many places.  If I'd been reading aprint copy of the book I'd probably have ditched it.
     --It was really hard for me to like Claire, one of the two protagonists, from the very beginning.  Spoiled, pretty much clueless because she wanted to be, right down to the end of the book and her dec isions about what to do with her future (nothing.)
     --an incredble amount of graphic violence, torture, all toward females.  A little I can take, this was overwhelming.
     -- so many chapters of diary entries from dear old dad.  Became pretty boring hearing over and over his reminisces about the pretty daughter.
The pros:
     -- a decent mystery Kept me guessing.
     -- I listened to this being read aloud and the reader was terrific.  That ups my review by a star.
I'm pretty sure this will remain a memorable read, but not for the reasons that people might like.  So violent.  So sadistic.  It's scary to think about such sickness and real crazies in our world.  However, my rating is based on my "cons" above, not on my thought about the state of our world.

Goodreads synopsis:  Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went - no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart.
          Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.
          Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked.
          But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...

90. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

listened on eAudio, borrowed from Bosler
narrated by Emily Lawrence
Unabridged audio (12:50)
2019 Delacorte
416 pgs.
YA Fantasy
Finished  9/18/19
Goodreads rating: 4.00 - 9215 ratings
My rating: 4.5

First line/s:  "Candlelight reflected off the silver anchor etched onto my sister's necklace."

My comments:  A little slow-paced in that there was a lot of description in the world building (a fascinating world with its own sets of gods and goddesses, holidays, and traditions and in time spent between the twelve sisters).  But it was well worth it, setting us up for a really powerful, mind-blowing climax, which takes place for at least the last quarter of the book.  It's also deliciously creepy.  I thing the thing that bothered me most was the Annaleigh was strong and smart, but screamed and whimpered and shrieked much more easily that I would have expected her to.  And I have mixed feelings about the ending.  It was read beautifully by Emily Lawrence, which added to its charm.

Goodreads synopsis:  In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
          Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
          Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with?
          When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.

89. The Line Between by Tosca Lee

Listened to the audio via CHIRP
read by Cassandra Campbell
Unabridged audio (10:07)
2019, Howard Books
389 pgs.
Adult Dystopia
Finished 9/16/19
Goodreads rating:  4.22 - 1373 ratings
My rating:  5
Setting: Dystopian US/Colorado mid-country area, some on-the-road

First line/s: "The farmer moved into the woods looking for his pigs."

My comments:  This contemporary dystopian thriller set in a cult enclave and the area between Iowa and Colorado is an excellent thriller with the range of unsettling events between a religious cult and the end of the world being brought about by a deadly flue - quick death with no cure.  The protagonist, Wynter, was one pretty cool, strong, smart female.  Couldn't put it down.
     The sequel to this book, which comes out at the end of thew week, believe it or not, sounds like another really tnese ride.  I think I'm gonna have to wait awhile to get over this one before I read that one!

Goodreads synopsis:  In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it’s the end she’d always been told was coming.
          When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.
          As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.
         Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.
          Filled with action, conspiracy, romance, and questions of whom—and what—to believe, THE LINE BETWEEN is a high-octane story of survival and love in a world on the brink of madness.

88. Lessons from a One Night Stand by Piper Rayne

listened to Audio / Chirp
read by Tanya Eby and Tim Paige
Unabridged audio (7:43)
2019 Audible
340 pgs.
Adult Romance
Finished9/15/2019
Goodreads rating:  4.17 - 1227 ratings
My rating: 3.5  Steam:  1.75/4
Setting:  Contemporary biggish small-town Alaska

First line/s: "The handsome guy on stage with his jaw hanging wide open, shock and awe in his eyes?  That'd be me.  Austin Bailey."

My comments:  Okay, this is the perfect romance for people who are into light romances that includes a little bit of the naughty stuff.  Too good-to-be-true hot teacher who's the patriarch of a tribe of siblings is also the much-loved coach and biology teacher in a medium-sized town in Alaska.  The "she" part of the story is the new substitute principal.  Heavy on story and character development with a spattering of the X-rated stuff, too.

Goodreads synopsis:  If you’re a guy like me, and you find yourself having banged your sexy new boss—the school principal—in the back of your Jeep one drunken night, here’s a few takeaways based on my experience...
          Lesson One: Always get her FULL name.
          Lesson Two: Consider asking what she does for a living.
          Lesson Three: Find out why she’s moved to town. Get details. Details are crucial.
          Lesson Four: Don’t alter her bio in front of an auditorium of high school students unless you know she has a sense of humor for that sort of thing.
          Lesson Five: If you ignore Lesson Four, apologize instead of flirt when you’re sent to the principal’s office.
          Lesson Six: NEVER sleep with her again.
          Lesson Seven: Pay attention to this one—it’s the most important of them all.          

          Don’t fall for your one-night stand.
          Class dismissed. 

87. A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier

(#1 Mercy Carr & Elvis/ Vermont)/
listened to audio / Chirp
read by Kathleen McInerney
Unabridged audio (11:58)
2018 Minotaur Books
342 pgs.
Contemporary Adult Mystery/Murder Mystery
Finished 9/10/2019
Goodreads rating: 3.96 - 908 ratings
My rating:3.5
Setting: Contemporary southern Verment

First line/s:   "Grief and guilt are the ghosts that haunt you when you survive what others do not."

My comments:   Greatly enjoyed the setting, contemporary small town southern Vermont.  The two protagonists, a fresh-out-of-the-service in Afghanistan army vet female and a male Vermont game warden both own K-9 dogs and much of the story revolves around their partnerships.   Another central character, Mercy's grandmother, is the local vet.  It's just all a little to doggy for me.  It was an interesting mystery, though a little unbelievable in places.  I enjoyed listening to it.  It's the same narrator that reads the Kate Burkholder Amish mystery series, a wonderful reader.

Goodreads synopsis:  First in a gripping new mystery series about a retired MP and her bomb-sniffing dog who become embroiled in an investigation in the beautiful Vermont wilderness
It may be the Fourth of July weekend, but for retired soldiers Mercy Carr and Belgian Malinois Elvis, it’s just another walk in the remote Lye Brook Wilderness—until the former bomb-sniffing dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned near a shallow grave filled with what appear to be human bones. U.S. Game Warden Troy Warner and his search-and rescue Newfoundland Susie Bear respond to Mercy’s 911 call, and the four must work together to track down a missing mother, solve a cold-case murder, and keep the citizens of Vermont safe on potentially the most incendiary Independence Day since the American Revolution.
          A Borrowing of Bones is full of complex twists and real details about search-and-rescue dog training that Paula learned through the training of her own dog. With its canine sidekicks and rich, dramatic story, this debut will be a must-have for mystery fans.

LGBTQ - Books about Gender, or Where Some Sort of LGBTQ is Represented

Picture Books

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo - Jill Twiss - gay bunny owned by US VP
A Tale of Two Daddies - Vaneta Oelschlager
I am J - Cris Beam
I am Jazz - Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings

Middle Grades

GEORGE - Alex Gino
Zenobia July - Lisa Bunker, the Ppotagonist, Zenobia July (6th grade?) her married aunts, her closest friend....

YA

Being Jazz:  My Life as a (Transgender) Teen - Jazz Jennings
Cycler - Lauren McLaughlin
Revenge of the Girl with a Great Personality - Elizabeth Eulberg
Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson
Talk - Kathe Koja (gay YA)


Adult

86. Run Away by Harlan Coben

listened to on Audible
read by Steven Webber (yes, THAT Steven Webber!)
Unabridged audio (10:20)
2019 Grand Central Publishing
385 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 9/8/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.09 - 21,689 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting:  Contemporary NYC

First line/s:  "Simon sat on a bench in Central Park - in Strawberry Fields to be more precise - and felt his heart shatter."

My comments:  This book was one heck of a roller coaster ride!  And I'm not even sure how I feel about it as I finish, because some of the relationships just seemed a little bit off.  Simon's love for his wife, Ingrid, was pure and would never waiver, but I still don't understand exactly why.  Because she was beautiful?  That part wasn't made clear at all, he just idolized and adored her.  In a way that was the crux of the whole story, which is what's leaving me a little off.  You're just supposed to understand this without any explanation.  Oh well.  It was a great whodunnit and Harlan Coben sure can spin a tale!  I LOVED listening to Steven Weber's flawless reading.  Of course, in my mind, Simon now looks exactly like Mr. Weber.   Yum.

Goodreads synopsis:  She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.
          Then, quite by chance, you see her busking in New York's Central Park.
          but she's not the girl you remember. This woman is wasted, frightened and clearly in trouble.
          You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
          She runs. 
          And you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Where criminal gangs rule, where drugs are the main currency, and murder is commonplace.
          Now it's your life on the line. And nowhere and no one is safe.

85. All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker

listened to audio - borrowed from the library
read by Taylor Miskimen beautifully
Unabridged audio (8:28)
2019 Viking Books for Young Readers
320 pgs.
HF (sort of...) MidGrades
Finished 9/5/2019
Goodreads rating: 3.91 - 2646 ratings
My rating:  4.5
Setting: 1981 Soho, NYC - artist community, in an artist's loft....

First line/s:   "May Day is the first day of May.  'Mayday' is a radio signal used by ships and aircraft in distress.  This spring, May Day was the first day that my mom didn't get out of bed."

My comments:  This is a book about color and art and being part of an artist community in Soho, NYC, in 1981.  There is both innocence and maturity in Ollie that makes her a really interesting protagonist.  Character development, setting, and plot were all very strong in the wonderful book.  Exceptionally well narrated.  There's an afterward talking about depression in parents and helping to explain a bit about it to a middle grade reader, telling where they could get help for themselves and the parent who may suffer from it.

Goodreads synopsis:  SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist—and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye.
          Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her only a cryptic note and instructions to destroy it. Her mom has gone to bed, and she's not getting up. Apollo is hiding something, Alex is acting strange, and Richard has questions about the mysterious stranger he saw outside. And someone keeps calling, looking for a missing piece of art. . . .
          Olympia knows her dad is the key--but first, she has to find him, and time is running out.

Picture Book Biography - Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock

Illustrated by John O'Brien

2013, Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights, Honesdale, PA

HC $16.95

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.23 - 738 ratings

My rating:  4.5
Endpapers:  Solid Rust

1^st line/s:  "Thomas learned to read.  And then, he never stopped.  He sat and he read.  He walked and he read.  Any lying in bed, instead of sleeping, her read."

My comments: The only reason I rated down .5 was because the wonderfully interesting facts and quotes, written in little books placed on different parts of the page, were written in such teeny, tiny font that you almost didn't read them.  They were great, and read well along with the text of the story.  The Author's Note at the end DID address Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder, which was another positive.  A truly fascinating look at history, and the life and obsession of a favorite politician and historical figure.

Goodreads:  As soon as Thomas Jefferson learned to read, he found his passion: books, books, and more books! Before, during, and after the American Revolution, Jefferson collected thousands of books on hundreds of subjects. In fact, his massive collection eventually helped rebuild the Library of Congress—now the largest library in the world. Barb Rosenstock’s rhythmic words and John O’Brien’s whimsical illustrations capture Jefferson’s passion for the written word as well as little-known details about book collecting. Author and artist worked closely with experts to create the first picture book on Jefferson’s love of reading, writing, and books. An author’s note, bibliography, and source notes for quotations are also included.

Handmade Cards

2046.  Brussels, Belgium

HELLO.  we are De Sterrekes in Englisch you can say The Stars.

We are a female group of young children with a different disability.  We are living together in a boarding school where we can be ourself.

We can not travel the world so we decided to let the world come to us!  through this way we can learn about the different countries and families and many more...

We wish you all of luck, love, and above all good health through this time.

Kisses De Sterrekes

2045.  GRPC May 2021

11 May 2021

I loved your Amish postcard!  I am reading my 2nd book by Emma Maas.  Both were Amish based and both were good!  I'm not into self-help books either.  The only nonfiction books I read are autobiographies, books about urban legends & paranormal, and true crime books.  I too love children's books, fairy tales, and cozy mysteries.  Hope your visit with your sister was great.  Happy Reading, Sandye

2026.  Taiwan 

1250.  India

"And in that moment I swear we were infinite."

This is an illustrations of a quote from a book I'm reading now!  The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  Hope you like it.  Sheethal.

495. HAND DRAWN CARD!!!  Praha, Ceska Replublika

Hello Chris,

Your post was first time I heard about jackalopes.  Buyt I find tghem terribly cute.

Wish you a great summer,

Veronika

The "Wild" West

1281.  The Wild, Wild West

Where's Waldo?

April, 2018

Hi Chris, Greetings from a small town in the western part of Germany named Dorsten.  Dorsten is a former oal mining town, but now the mines are shut down and the town is getting fuller and greater again every day.  All the best, Lilan

1250.  Two Women and a Mule

These two women are moving up the Bright Angel Trail toward the rim of Grand Canyon National Park.  In this whimsical photograph, one of the women appears to be trying to convince the mule to keep moving upwards with her friend.  

This was a swap...I sent them a card that I wanted mailed to me.  I sent this card because I love it and didn't want to send it to someone else.  It was mailed back to me from Belgium:

Advice from a mule from Ilan Shamin:  "Be sure-footed, follow your path, work hard, pack life with great memories.  It's okay to be a little stubborn.  Get a kick out of life."

Picture Book Biography - The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachlan

Illustrated by Hadley Hooper

2014, Roaring Book Pres/ A Neal Porter Book

HC $17.99

40 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.06 - 1586 ratings

My rating:  4.5
Endpapers:  bright, solid orange-red

1^st line/s:  The book appears to all be one sentence!!!!   "If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France where the skies were gray/ And the days were cold/ And you wanted color and light/ And sun, / And your mother, to brighten your days,/ Painted plates to hang on the walls/ With picture of meadows and trees,/ Rivers and birds, ...."

My comments: Patricia MacLachlan, one of my favorite authors, has written a simple book about Henri Matisse and where his artistic inspiration came from.  Hadley Hooper has used simple, beautiful illustrations to accentuate the story that MacLachlan tells.  This book is totally charming, especially if you are an admirer of Matisse's art.  Yup, he's also one of my favorites...

Goodreads:  If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures?
          Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.

Picture Book Biography - A Stroll with Mr. Gaudi by Pau Estrada

Illustrated by the author

2013, Editorial Juventud

40 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.40 - 25 ratings

My rating:  5
Endpapers:  Solid corally-red

1^st line/s:  "Mr. Gaudi leaves home early for work, as he does every morning."

My comments: What's not to like about this beautifully illustrated biography of Antoni Gaudi?  This one tells of one life of "Mr. Gaudi" as an elderly gentleman, touring the city of Barcelona and checking up on his current building projects.  We learn so much about his personality ... his daydreaminess, his eccentric building ideas, his "different" way of planning, his dreams of the future.  We also learn that the people of the time did NOT like his architecture!  The story is interesting and gives us a real feel for the man.  The illustrations are amazing, not only are the grand buidling uniquely drawn, but the whimsical illustrations of the people are a lot of fun to peruse.  A keeper!  The three pages of "afterward" are full of facts and interesting to read as well.

Goodreads:  There is no summary on Goodreads!

Audible Readers/Narrators

Acevedo, Elizabeth - Clap When You Land, her own book

................................. - With the Fire on High, narrated her own book!

Adam, Vikas - There's Something About Sweetie (Menon) coreader

.......................- The Set Up (Kothari) coreader

Alces, Philip - Millionaire at Midnight (Simone) coreader
Amoss, Sophie - 10 Blind Dates (Elston)
..........................- The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs
Anderson, Markham - Steadfast (very deep voice)
Andrews, MacLeod - Freefall co reader
Arden, Joe - The Pretending Plot (Blakely) coreader

................... - Live and Let Grow (Reid) coreader
Arizmendi, Yareli - American Dirt  gorgeous lilting Spanish accent

.................................The Distance Between Us (Grande)

Armitage, Richard - The Jane Austen Society (Jenner)
Arndt, Andi - The Christmas Pact (Keeland) coreader
......................- Conviction (Dahl)
.....................- Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words (Sivec)
..................... - Inappropriate (Keeland) coreader
..................... - Lucky Suit (Blakely) co reader

..................... - Pause (Scott)

Arserio Shiromi - Thorn (Khanani)
Assadourian, Vaneh - Other Words for Home

Atherton, Kristin - Shadow Sands (#2 Kate Marshall) (Bryndza)

Ayyar, Priya - A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Mafi)
Baker, David Aaron - The Substitution Order  (Martin)
Baker, Heidi - On the Island (Graves)
Ballerini, Eduardo - The Fifth to Die (Barker) coreader
Barrow, Anthony Mark - Field Notes on Love (Smith) co readers
Bauer, Emily - The Getaway (Hendricks & Pekkanen)
Bayes, Terrance - Water World Warrior (Lace) co reader
Beaton, Eilidh - Vanishing Girls (Regan) HORRIBLE!!!!! Couldn't stand her pronunciations or her 12-year old voice!

Bennett, Eleanor (Brit) - House of Hollow

Bennett, Erin - Winter in Paradise

....................... - One Perfect Summer excellent
Bennett, Susan - Angels Burning
......................... -  Big Lies in a Small Town
Bernstein, Jesse - Places No One Knows co reader, teenage voice
Bentley, Amy Melissa - Starry Eyes (Bennett)
Bittner, Dan - Tweet Cute (Lord) coreader

Bloomingdale, Brooke - Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist (Hall) co reader
Bray, R. C. - The Others (Robinson)

Brentmoor, Samantha - A Stitch in Time (Armstrong)

..........Flame (Bliss) coreader
Bresnahan, Alyssa - The Child Finder, (Denfeld)
Brick, Scott - Blue Moon (#24 Reacher) Child
Bridges, Noelle - Fire in His Blood (Dixon)
Campbell, Cassandra - Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) beautifully read
Cass, Karen - Honeymoon for One (Collins)
Cavanaugh, Maureen - To Catch a Spinster (Bryce) somewhat haughty British accent
Church, Imogen - The Lost for Words Bookshop (Butland) reader's voice sounded too old for the character
....................The Library of Lost and Found (Patrick)

Clarke, Jason - Eight Winter Nights (Maverick) coreader

..........Flame (Bliss) coreader
Colacci, David - Blood Relations (Moore) his voice was too deep and old for this protagonist
Cole, Jonathan R. - Beautiful Stranger (Lauren) co reader

Collins, Alana Kerr - The Nature of Fragile Things (Meissner) lovely
Condon, Kristin - Heart-Shaped Hack  (Graves)
Conger, Eric - Bloody Genius (and all the other Virgil Flowers novels
Conway, Audrey - Assigned a Mate coreader

Corbett, Clare - A Dying Fall (#5 Ruth Galloway) (Griffiths)
Cosham, Ralph - A Fatal Grace (Gamache #2) (Penny) super reader, great accents
Craden, Abby - Recursion (Crouch) co reader
Crisden, Sean - Veronica's Dragon (Dixon) coreader

Cronin, James Patrick - Poisonfeather (#2 Gibson Vaughn) (FitzSimmons)

......... Cold Harbor (#3 Gibson Vaughn) (FitzSimmons)
Dalton, Callie - Cathian (Dohner)
Damron, Will - Dark Pattern (Mayne) good
Davies, Matthew Lloyd - Sacrificed to the Dragon

Darby, Tyler - Synnr's Hope (Rudolph)
Dawe, Angela - Marriage of Inconvenience coreader
Daymond, Robbie - Hope and Other Punchlines (Buxbaum)

dePaula, Bernardo - Ground Zero (Gratz) coreader

del Castillo, Inez - Shipped (Hockman)

DeLuca, Amy - Crimson Born (Patrick)
Delaine, Christina - Spider Woman's Daughter (Hillerman) read too slowly, didn't enjoy

Delawari, Arini - Ground Zero (Gratz) coreader
Dexter, Stephen - Marriage of Inconvenience coreader (used a Boston accent that was a tiny bit "over the top"

Dillard, Stephanie - Turn the Paige (Beck) overactomg, over-stressing, over-emphasizing....Yuck!
Donne, Tyler - Hot as Puck coreader
Dornet, Lidia - Impossible (YA - Kant) coreader

Doyle, Sean William - A Ripple in Time (Zugg)

Drummey, Sarah-Jane - The Darkling Bride (Anderson)

Duff, Helen - Then She Was Gone (Jewell) wonderful: three different accents, male, female, child, all seamlessly

Dukehart, Cris - Three Mages and a Margarita (Marie)
Dunn, Desiree - Indentured Bride (Abraham)
Early, Kathleen - Blonde Hair Blue Eyes
..............................Pretty Girls (Slaughter) terrific
Eby, Tanya - Lessons from a One-Night Stand (Rayne) co reader
Edwin, Vanessa - The Pretending Plot (Blakely) co reader, bad British accent, off-putting

Eiden, Andrew - The Bromance Book Club (Adams)
Ezzo, Lauren - Where the Forest Meets the Stars (Vanderah)
..........................Where the Lost Wander (Harmon)
Feathers, Sarah - The Stranger Diaries (Griffiths) co reader

Fischer, Fiona - Live and Let Grow (Reid) coreader
Flanagan, Lisa - The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs
Fletcher, Carrie Hope - The Flatshare (O'Leary) co reader

Fliakos, Ari - The Book of Speculation (Swyler) excellent!

Fortgang, Lauren -  The Last Flight (Clarke) co reader
Fortune, Kwaku - The Flatshare (O'Leary) co reader
Garcia, Kyla - We Set the Dark on Fire (Majia)
Gavin, Marguerite - The Shunning  (Lewis)
Gilbert, Tavia - The Last True Poets of the Sea (Drake) a little over-zealous
Glenister, Robert - Lethal White (Strike #4) (Galbraith) Love him!
Gossage, Ellie - Scoring the Keeper's Sister (Stewart) coreader "eh"
Grace, Jennifer - Running From a Rock Star (Albright)
Grant, Grace - Beautiful Stranger (Lauren) co reader
..........Take Me (Andre)
Green, Caitlyn - Hush Hush (Fitzpatrick)
Greenfield, Lance - Maneuver (Bliss) co reader
............Throttle Me (Bliss) co reader
Grimsley, Steven Roy - A Shroud of Tattered Sails (Garrison Gage #4) (Carter)
.......................................A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart (#5 Garrison Gage) (Carter)
Haberkorn, Todd - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating (Lauren) coreader
Halstead, Graham - Impossible (YA-Kant) coreader

.................................-Eight Perfect Murders (Swanson) great reader
Hazlett, Deborah - Open Season (Howard) great reader
Henderson, Heather - Flight of the Sparrow
Heyborne, Kirby - Letters to the Lost (Kemmerer) co reader
............................. - What to Say Next (Buxbaum)
Hoffman, Dominic - The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs
Huber, Hilary - Freefall coreader

Hvam, Khristine -  The Last Flight (Clark) coreader

Irondale, Tess - Some Like It Charming (Bryce) terrific
Jackson, J. D. - Machine City (Holliday)
Jackson, Joshilyn - Someone Else's Love Story read by the author and LOVE her reading!!!
Jackson, Hollie - Ice Planet Barbarian series
.............................Alien Fae Mate (Kayn)
Jackson, Suzy - Skyward (#1 Skyward) (Sanderson) great narrator
Jameson, Joe - Good Girl, Bad Girl (Robotham)

.........................When She Was Good (Robotham)
Jones, Sullivan - The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs

Kaminsky, Eva - Eight Winter Nights (Maverick) co reader
Kelly, Meghan - Senator's Pet (Rae) Horrible reader, light, airy bimbo  - like YUCK
Kenyon, Peter - Lost Girls:  The Maine Murders (Mills)
Kreinik, Barrie - An Anonymous Girl (Pekkanen) co reader, great job
Knowelden, Elizabeth - Truth and Lies (Mitchell)
Kowal, Mary Robinette - The Other Family excellent narrator, great with voices
Laken, Christine - Dark Sacred Night (Connelly) coreader
..............................-The Night Fire (Connelly) co reader
Landon, Amy - Thin Air (Gray) excellent job
Larnia, Jenna - The Line Tender (Allen) excellent
LaVoy, January - Jar of Hearts (Hillier) great with voices
Lawrence, Emily - House of Salt and Sorrows (Craig) wonderful

LeBlanc, Isabella Star - Firekeeper's Daughter (absolutely fantastic)
Lee, Caroline - Nine Perfect Strangers (Moriarty) Australian accent

.........................- The Exiles (Kline) Brit, Irish, Australian accents
Lee, Deacon - My Favorite Half-Night Stand (Lauren) coreader
Leigh, Kirsten - Throttle Me (Bliss) coreader
Leyva, Henry -  The Precipice (#6 Bowditch) (Doiron)
.........................Widowmaker (#7 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron)
..........................Knife Creek (#8 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron)
..........................Rabid (#8.5 Mike Bowditch) Doiron
..........................Stay Hidden (#9 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron)
..........................Almost Midnight  (#10 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron)
..........................The Imposter, (#10.5 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron)

..........................One Last Lie (#11 Mike Bowditch) (Doiron
Lindstrom, Jon - Recursion (Crouch) co reader
Lloyd, Mason - Ice Planet Barbarian series
Lowman, Rebecca - Starters and Enders

Lucas, Ava - Millionaire at Midnight (Simone) coreader
Maarleveld, Saskia - Time's Convert (Harkness)
MacDuffie, Carrington -  The Ghost Manuscript (she read well, but her voice was too mannish for the character)
MacLaren, Ian - Take Me
Mallon, Erin - The Boss Who Stole Christmas (Aston)

.........................Maneuver (Bliss) co reader

.........................Reasonable Doubt (Whitney G.) co reader
Manning, Joshua - Last Bus to Everland in an easy-to-follow thick Scottish brogue
Marie, Jorjeana - Hope and Other Punchlines  (Buxbaum) co reader

.............................-All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Greenwood)

Marlo, Coleen - Her Restless Heart (Cameron)

Marte, Melania-Luisa - Clap When You Land (Acevedo)
Masters, Angele - A Curious Beginning (Raybourn) read beautifully
Mattler, Jayme - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating (Lauren) coreader
McAllister, Logan - Scoring the Keeper's Sister (Stewart) coreader "eh"

..................................A Demon in My Bed (Winters)
McClendon, Ellie - Fiance on Paper (Snow) coreader, too slow, made her sound dumb
McDowell, Jane - House at Sea's End (British accented)
...............................A Room Full of Bones (Griffiths) British accent
McFadden, Amy - Overdue Life of Amy Byler

............................ - The Letters (Fisher) beautifully
McInerney, Kathleen - The Pact (#11.5 Kate Burkholder) (Castillo)

.......................Shamed (#11 Kate Burkholder) (Castillo)
.......................A Borrowing of Bones (Munier)
.......................In Plain Sight (#10.5  Kate Burkholder)

McManus, Shannon - A Cry in the Dark (#1 Carly Moore) (Grover) well done

Meire, Henrietta - Postcards from a Stranger (Clark)
Meskimen, Taylor - Zenobia July (Bunker)
.......................All the Greys on Greene Street (Tucker)  (beautifully!)
Miles, Robin -The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs
.......................- Call Your Daughter Home (Spera) multi rdrs
Monroe, Felicity - Veronica's Dragon (Dixon) coreader

Monteath, David - Binding Vows (#1 ) (Bybee)

............................. - Silent Vows (#2) great accents and voice tones for gender/age

............................. - Redeeming Vows (#3) (Bybee)

............................. - Highland Shifter (#4) (Bybee)
Mordrake, Jean-Paul - Fiance on Paper coreader, excellent

Murin, Patti - The Book of Two Ways (Picoult)
Nankani, Soneela - Internment (Ahmed)
..............................- There's Something About Sweetie (Menon) creader

..............................- The Set Up (Kothari) co reader

Naughton, Sarah - Black Rock Bay (Labuskes)
Nielsen, Stina - We Hope for Better Things
O'Donnell, Jennifer - Name of the Devil (Mayne easy to listen to)
Ojo, Adenrele - Call Your Daughter Home (Spera) multi rdrs
Paige, Tim - Lessons from a One-Night Stand (Rayne) co reader
Parenteau, Tanis - Trail of Lightning  (Roanhorse) great job
Peakes, Karen - Don't Even Breathe (Houghton)
Plummer, Therese - This Fallen Prey (#3 Rockton)  (Armstrong)
................................Watcher in the Woods (#4 Rockton) (Armstrong)
................................Alone in the Wild (#5 Rockton) (Armstrong)

.......,,,......................A Stranger in Town (#6 Rockton) Armstrong

................................Don't Look For Me (Walker) read beautifully

................................A Tail As Old As Time (Hay)

Podehl, Nick - The Legacy Human (Quinn)
Potter, Kirsten - The Sun Down Motel (St.James)  coreader

...............................That Darkness (Black)
Pottsworth, B. J. - Assigned a Mate coreader

Powers, Imani Jade - Much Ado About You (Young)
Pressley, Brittany - Call Your Daughter Home (Spera) multi rdrs
.................................Everything My Mother Taught Me beautifully read
.................................Letters to the Lost (Kemmerer) co reader
.................................The Sun Down Motel (St. James) coreader
.................................Well Met (DeLuca) great job

.................................A Chance Inheritance (Brown)
Price-Lewis, Lucy - The Bookshop on the Corner gorgeous British & Scottis - clear, easy-to-understand
Puckett, Sarah - Paradise Awakening (Burton)
Ragland, Christopher - I Am Pilgrim (Hayes) Super
Ramm, Zara - The Year of Saying Yes (Doyle) very British, lol
Rampling, D -  Pleasure in the Stars (Myers) HORRIBLE ! ! ! The Worst EVER
Rankin, Emily - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Waxman) GREAT

......................... - Agent 355 (Benedict)
Revasch, Abigail - What to Say Next (Buxbaum) coreader

Roberts, Rebecca - No Time Like Forever  (York)
Roberts, Summer - Hot as Puck coreader
Rodriguez, Patricia - Leave No Trace (Mijia)

Ronconi, Amanda - Immortal Born (Sands)
Rosewood, Angelise - Stepbrother Inked (Blaze)
Ross, Rebekkah - The Simple Wild (Tucker) excellent
Rowan, Richard - A Perfect Evil (Kava)
Rudd, Kate - The Vanishing Stair (Johnson) so-so, didn't like the flat tone she gave the narrator
.....................- The Hand on the Wall (Johnson) my opinion is exactly the same as for previous title
Salinas, George - 1001 Dark Nights: Hidden Ink (Ryan) okay but not great

Sanderson, Charlie - Map of Shadows (Penn)
Sastre, Elizabeth, The Au Pair (Rous) read beautifully
Schorr, Katie - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, thumbs up
Shaffer, Emily - Tweet Cute (Lord) coreader

...........................The Grace Year (Liggett)
Shanahan, Stephen - Force of Nature (#2 Aaron Falk) (Harper)
Shapiro, Dani - Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love read by the author

Smith, Laura Faye - Dirty Little Secrets (Hart)
Spear, Addison - Water World Warrior (Lace) co reader
Strole, Phoebe - Neverworld Wake (Pessl) excellent
Sutton-Smith - Emily - The Body Counter (#2 Jude Fontaine) (Frasier)
.....................................The Body Keeper (#3 Jude Fontaine) (Frasier)
Sweet, Lauren - Unexpectedly Mated (Taiden)
Syal, Myra - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Jaswal) gorgeous, lilting reading that I could easily understand
Tamron, Will - Murder Theory (#3 Theo Cray) (Mayne)
Taylor-Corbett, Shaun - Where the Lost Wander (Harmon) liked his reading voice

Taylorson, Tom - Polar Vortex (Mather)
Thibodeaux, Shayna - My Favorite Half-Night Stand  (Lauren) coreader

Thomas, Edward - Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist (Hall) co reader
Traister, Christina - The Wish (Davids)
Turpin, Bahni - The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) multiple rdrs
...........................Dread Nation (Ireland) great job
...........................From the Desk of Zoe Washington good reader, just not for this book?
Vacker, Karissa - Field Notes on Love (Smith) co reader
..............................-Places No One Knows coreader, teenage voice
............................. -Freefall co reader
Vason, Anjana - The Stranger Diaries (Griffiths) co reader

Vinall, Olivia - Shiver (Reynolds) enjoyable
Wane, Esther - The Stranger Diaries (Griffiths) co reader

........................- Girl, Lost (Patis) (spelled Wayne by Amazon, but I think incorrect)
Webber, Zachary - Lucky Suit (Blakely) co reader
Weber, Steven - Run Away  (Sandford #12 Virgil Flowers)(Even if he stuttered and stammered, I'd LOVE to hear him read, though he was really good.)
......................... - The Boy From the Woods (Coben) brilliantly!
Welliver, Titus Dark Sacred Night (Connelly) coreader
.........................-The Night Fire (Connelly) co reader
Whelan, Julia - An Anonymous Girl (Pekkanen) co reader, great job
...................,.....-,Beach Read (Henry) lovely
.........................- Evvie Drake Starts Over  (Holmes)

..........................-The Giver of Stars (Moyes) absolutely fantastic

......................... = Thank You For Listening (her own book) one of the very best audio readers
Wilder, Emma - Worked Up (Bailey)
Wilhoite, Kathleen - Where'd You Go Bernadette (Semple) didn't really enjoy---ultra-theatrical

Williams, Finty - Chain of Gold (#1 Last Hours/Shadowhunters) (Clare)
Wincott, Andrew - The Stranger Diaries (Griffiths) co reader
Winton, Graham - The Fifth to Die (Barker) coreader
Wise, Elaine - Once Gone (Pierce) lovely BRITISH accent
York, Jeremy - Fire in His Blood (Dixon)
York, Sebastian - The Christmas Pact (Keeland) coreader
........................... - Reasonable Doubt (Whitney G.) co reader

Zackman, Gabra - This Is How It Always Is (Frankel) beautifully!

Zainea, Tom - Lonely Magnolia (Jones) novella

Zanzarella, Nicol - Love Lettering (Clayborn) nice job

Zebrowski, Jackie - One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (Hawker)
Zeller, Emily Woo - The Bride Test
..................................A Beginning at the End (Chen)