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THE LIVING INFINITE

The personal struggles of Princess Eulalia are set against the historical backdrop of the late nineteenth century, the final years of her family's rule as Spanish monarchs. This is a rewarding listening experience for fans of historical fiction because there are three narrators working together to make sense of a large cast. Moving from Spain to Cuba and, eventually, to the United States, their capable narration carries us over the years and obstacles that hinder Eulalia's quest for love. As the voices of Roxanne Hernandez and Kyla Garcia mingle, almost indistinguishable from each other, Eddie Lopez is a welcome addition to the chapters focused on Tomas Aargon. His lively pace matches the robust man who captures the princess's heart. Listeners will appreciate this well-told story.

Pub Date: Oct. 17, 2017

Duration: 10 hrs, 30 mins

DD ISBN: 9781538478585

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026

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    WONDER BOYS

    American colleges are favorable locales for ghastly event and hair-tearing circumstance. There is, for instance, a good deal of pleasure to be had out of professor and past-prodigy Grady Tripp's awful life, as portrayed by Michael Chabon in WONDER BOYS. There is a certain amount of slapstick here, but it's balanced by Chabon's superb portrait of a gale-force mid-life crisis, a soul-destroying albatross of an unfinished novel and the mind-numbing inconsequence of writers' conferences. David Colacci sounds a little starved for oxygen in his reading, but that's not exactly out of keeping with Grady Tripp's personal gestalt.

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    Publisher: Brilliance Audio

    Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026

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      QUEEN LUCIA

      Class lurks in varying degrees behind every great English comedy, its ineffable code being so endlessly conducive to ironic subtlety. QUEEN LUCIA, the first of the great Lucia novels of E.F. Benson, is imbued with it. Nonetheless, social striving rather than class per se gives the novel its real comic force. At its center is Lucia, the regnant, self-appointed social and cultural leader of a genteel, middle-class circle. She’s a schemer and poser of awesome theatricality and self-delusion. Although the narrative is conducted in the third person, the characters’ doings, most especially Lucia’s, are as often as not reported in the light in which the perpetrators hope to be viewed. Still, the true facts and motivations, usually base, shine luminously through. Geraldine McEwen’s reading truly enhances the work, being a model of cultivated discretion and ironic pacing.

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      Duration: 9 hrs

      Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

      Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026

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