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> Tag: julia whelan

“The only good thing about getting old is nothing, but I don’t complain.”

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan

June 24, 2023 by Nart Leave a Comment

There is a growing trend of books being written FOR audio and I absolutely love it. Plot: Sewanee Chester wanted to be an actress, and thanks to some nepotism, genetics, and actual talent, she made it big. And then she promptly UN-made it and retreated to audiobook narration. Fortunately, she is excellent at that too. Less fortunately, audiobook narrators aren’t exactly bringing in Marvel money, and she needs cash. So she dusts off the pen name she used when she started, back when romance novels […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Romance Tagged With: julia whelan

Nart's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Romance · Tags: julia whelan ·
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A small, calico cat lying down with her legs tucked underneath behind a cell phone showing a picture of the audio book "Brief Cases" by Jim Butcher

Overall good but appreciated the stories by characters that aren’t Harry Dresden in particular.

Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

April 15, 2022 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

Last year I listened to the first Dresden Files short story collection, Side Jobs, to be able to listen to the excellent narration by James Marsters (on the recommendation of ardaigle!).  Marsters is a great narrator but he fell short when it came time for Karrin Murphy’s story at the end of the book.  For the next collection of short stories, Brief Cases, they brought on two female narrators, Cassandra Campbell and Julia Whelan for stories from Anastasia Luccio and Molly Carpenter’s POV.  No disrespect to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Cassandra Campbell, cbr14, Dome'Loki, Dresden Files, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, julia whelan, Oliver Wyman, Urban Fantasy

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Cassandra Campbell, cbr14, Dome'Loki, Dresden Files, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, julia whelan, Oliver Wyman, Urban Fantasy ·
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“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

May 21, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Young Adult Tagged With: Award Winner, Deb Caletti, drama, julia whelan, Mental Health, printz, printz honor, recovery, road trip, running, tearjerker, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Young Adult · Tags: Award Winner, Deb Caletti, drama, julia whelan, Mental Health, printz, printz honor, recovery, road trip, running, tearjerker, YA, Young Adult ·
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It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

January 29, 2019 by baxlala 2 Comments

I’m so torn on this book. I was all set to rip into it for not being the book I wanted it to be, which was a story about a young American woman’s lighthearted romp through the English countryside while she led a Harry Potter-esque existence (keeping the book magic, losing the outright magic) during her tenure at Oxford. Who wouldn’t want to live vicariously through such a character? This is what I got for the first half of the book. Ella arrives in England […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: baxlala, Fiction, julia whelan, Romance

baxlala's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: baxlala, Fiction, julia whelan, Romance ·
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