Audiobook Roundup

I'm not permitted to share my full reviews for AudioFile Magazine, but here are snippets and links to my recent reviews.  It's quite a disparate collection of titles!

The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and theEmergence of Black Power

By: Ann Bausum

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Recorded Books, 2017

Narrator Karen Chilton echoes the determination of Civil Rights activists in Mississippi's often overlooked but hugely influential March against Fear in 1966. 

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/134975/march-against-fear-by-ann-bausum/]

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Brilliance Audio, 2017

Award-winning narrator Simon Vance has the perfect English accent for this 1908 classic featuring four anthropomorphized friends: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. The Wind in the Willows was one of my childhood favorites.  It's a perfect book for shared family listening in the car.  I've listened to excerpts of several other versions of this audio book, and I believe that Simon Vance's recording may be the new standard by which others are judged. 

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/135515/the-wind-in-the-willows-by-kenneth-grahame/]

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo

By: F. C. Yee

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Recorded Books, 2017

Once Genie Lo's only concerns were college applications--that is, until the ancient Chinese Monkey King leapt upon her Silicon Valley school desk in the form of the scandalously handsome rebel Quentin Sun.

[https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/131656/the-epic-crush-of-genie-lo-by-fc-yee/]