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Daughters of Nri
- By: Reni K. Amayo
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,406
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,287
A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, separated at birth. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. Daughters of Nri explores their epic journey of self-discovery as they embark on a path back to one another. Strong-willed Naala grows up seeking adventure in her quiet and small village. While the more reserved Sinai resides in the cold and political palace of Nri.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The potential to be a good story but the pace is unbearable
- By Danay on 02-19-20
- Daughters of Nri
- By: Reni K. Amayo
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
Strong Black Women and Magic
Reviewed: 06-29-20
Daughters of Nri blends the fantastic with the all-too-real. Reni K. Amayo does not shy away from telling the story of gender and power structures, the thrills and fears of being strong spirited women. An exquisite world, characters so relatable despite our differences in setting, a story that carries one along and never leaves one hanging. Highly recommend for readers who love magic, strong women, Afrocentric storytelling, characters who braid each other’s hair and fight against oppression.
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You Are Your Own
- A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
- By: Jamie Lee Finch
- Narrated by: Jamie Lee Finch
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Rooted in her experiences growing up in an evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s You Are Your Own offers an overview of evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt those leaving the evangelical faith and offers an approach to help them recover healthy self-worth and resilience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great content.
- By Corey Moore on 11-19-19
- You Are Your Own
- A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
- By: Jamie Lee Finch
- Narrated by: Jamie Lee Finch
Redemptive
Reviewed: 06-11-20
Jamie Lee Finch makes sense out of Evangelical purity culture's lingering trauma and guilt. recommended.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- By: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 378
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 291
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Story4 out of 5 stars 289
In this classic of literary nonfiction, Annie Dillard takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays "King of the Meadow" with a field of grasshoppers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pilgrim at tinker creek
- By Rand on 08-21-03
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- By: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
My favorite book.
Reviewed: 06-11-20
Out of all of them. Delicious and captivating and full of life and mystery. Damn.
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Furyborn
- By: Claire Legrand
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 622
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 550
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable - until her mother vanishes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun Action Thrill Ride
- By Caffaenated on 06-01-18
- Furyborn
- By: Claire Legrand
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Okay
Reviewed: 09-24-19
I wanted to like this book. It has some wonderful premises. But in the end the characterization and storytelling were pretty flat.
Some rather female-centric sex positivity. Female masturbation, erotic dreams, birth control (!), and female orgasms during sex all show up.
The world also has a superficially queer setup to it. Same-gender couples in the world, both protagonists coming across as bisexual (one only in an erotic dream, the other has a bisexual partner history). No gender varience. But none of the actual romance or sex in the story is queer. As a reader I couldn't find an authentic sense of queerness at play.
The world is also superficially racially diverse. Lots of variations of skin color. But no deeper sense of non-white or post-collonial understandings of things show up.
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For Today I Am a Boy
- By: Kim Fu
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, "powerful king." To his parents, newly settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted only son in a sea of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his immigrant father's dreams of Western masculinity. Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation, though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Heavy, gray, careful novel
- By Tucker FitzGerald on 07-28-17
- For Today I Am a Boy
- By: Kim Fu
- Narrated by: James Chen
Heavy, gray, careful novel
Reviewed: 07-28-17
7 and a half hours of sparse, dry, punishing bleakness. 30 minutes of flickering redemption and life.
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