Poet Patricia Storace presents a delicious vision of modern Greece--full of vitality, vulgarity, tradition and passion. Storace weaves myths and metaphors with the gritty realism that comes from having lived in Greece. Using the myth of Persephone, who spent six months in the underworld and six months on earth each year, as a unifying metaphor, Storace explores stories of cultural traditions in modern guise. Jill Eikenberry delivers a narration perfectly in tune with the author. She relates with the detached yet passionate tone the author conveys. Eikenberry allows the beautifully written prose to do most of the work, but her finesse with timing and emphasis adds tremendously to the audio rendition. Her voice at times smooth and ethereal then changes to convey Storace’s wit and irony. One hears her delight in the contrasts and complexities of ancient symbols and myths woven into the brash chaos of modern Greece. The sojourn with Storace and Eikenberry is all too brief and at the end, like Persephone, we long to return to the light.
Pub Date: March 22, 1997
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Audio Literature
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Narrator Lisa Flanagan has a wonderful vocal personality--lithe with a broad palette of pitch patterns and a range of believable emotional tones. Her friendly voice works well with this lighthearted overview of how dramatically the Internet has changed the world in the past 30 years. Though being digitally connected has improved life in many ways, the author says we've lost many of the interpersonal experiences that used to sustain us. We have less privacy, don't need all those reference books, and have largely forgotten how to have vocal conversations with other people. The audiobook is entertaining nostalgia for anyone who feels incompetent navigating the World Wide Web, and a soothing reminder that those of us who miss the simplicity of the pre-Internet era are not alone.
Pub Date: Oct. 26, 2021
Duration: 5 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780593418055
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Craig Brown tickled our ear with 99 GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGARET, a brisk, irreverent assembly of tiny chapters that ran a satisfactory 12+ hours. For the Beatles, he adds 51 more glimpses and another eight hours, with a proportionally diluted effect. Brown himself, Kate Robbins, and Mark McGann share the narration, which is interesting, insightful, well performed, and packed with some new and a lot of old information. All of it is shaped by Brown's propensity for "easing sense into nonsense." The self-mocking Beatles are harder to deflate than a pretentious princess, but Brown's accounts of touring Beatles sites in Liverpool and his histories of Beatles contemporaries swept up--and aside--by their spectacular rise will amaze and beguile listeners.
Pub Date: Oct. 13, 2020
Duration: 20 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9781250770127
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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