THE RESERVATION

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THE RESERVATION

by Rebecca Kauffman ; read by Jonathan Todd Ross ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 24, 2026

A short, fascinating day-in-the-life story delivered with sweet and subtle grace.

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Jonathan Todd Ross maintains a nimble, lighthearted tone throughout this enjoyable dive into the inner workings of a restaurant in a story that features high-profile guests, complicated staff, and what might be a thief. On a day when a big-name author has an evening reservation, a beleaguered staffer must call the restaurant owner with bad news: Almost all the steaks in storage are missing. Listeners are taken on a journey through the lives of the various cooks and waitstaff who come together each day. Ross handles the proceedings with an amiable tone that highlights humor while also providing needed weight to the various backstories, enhancing the audiobook's emotional impact.

A short, fascinating day-in-the-life story delivered with sweet and subtle grace.

Pub Date: Feb. 24, 2026

Duration: 6 hrs, 44 mins

DD ISBN: 9798896791997

Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.

Review Posted Online: March 25, 2026

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2026

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LITERARY FICTION | GENERAL FICTION

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    by Michael Chabon ; read by David Colacci ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

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    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
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      by E.F. Benson ; read by Geraldine McEwen ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

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      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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