Ellen Jovin's attractive middle-register voice with its hint of a scratchy burr is as enthusiastic and welcoming as you'd expect from someone who chats about words and punctuation with anyone who's interested. The author of three previous books on language, Jovin took her passion on the road by creating a pop-up grammar advice table, which she used as she and her husband traveled the country. Humorous anecdotes and syntactical conundrums fill the enjoyable result, which she reads with animation, clarity, and good pacing. If you notice my use of the Oxford comma, then this book will satisfy yearnings not easily confided to others. Those who like anecdotes of people's quirks, such as an Alabama businessman's struggle with "affect" and "effect," also will be charmed.
Pub Date: July 19, 2022
Duration: 8 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780358578352
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Inspiring collections of Angelou reading her poetry. These selections showcase Angelou's smooth, lyrical voice and her warm vitality. Her innate rhythm celebrates her verse and offers the poems to listeners as they should be remembered. Occasionally Angelou comments between the selections, and occasionally she interjects a resonant laugh.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: N/A
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Hakimi does his best to keep this encyclopedic history of film moving.
Aden Hakimi possesses a classic narrator’s voice, polished and mellow, adaptable to a wide range of subjects. His accomplished performance and steady pacing anchor a narrative that is more a roll call than a history. In this vast assembly of movie titles and synopses, Hakimi’s skilled voice is the unifying element. The author is expansive, perceptive, and highly versed, and listeners may well find that his taste in films is matchless. But while his narrative proceeds more or less chronologically, it doesn’t supply its narrator with a discernable theme or thread—or anything distinctly revisionist, for that matter.
Hakimi does his best to keep this encyclopedic history of film moving.Pub Date: July 7, 2026
Duration: 11 hrs, 57 mins
DD ISBN: 9781668141717
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: today
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