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DINOS ABC ROAR AUDIOBOOK Sample | Kids Are Happy Learning ABC’S

Parents want to make early learning for their children as fun and easy as possible. I narrated a few of my ebooks for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and first graders to help children learn ABC’S, 123’S and colors quickly and easily. This also takes the pressure off of parents, grandparents and childcare givers as children can listen to the audiobooks again and again. Here is an…

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Gail Carriger's Poison or Protect Audiobook Sample!

You can find POISON OR PROTECT: A Delightfully Deadly Novella here.

A sexy assassin, a Scotsman, and two lobsters attend a Victorian house party. New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of love and espionage set in her popular Parasolverse.

ASSASSIN

Lady Preshea Villentia, the Mourning Star, has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black. What society doesn’t know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea’s employer. And Preshea has one final assignment.

VERSUS SCOTSMAN

It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn’t anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven – massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and… working for the enemy.

In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart – a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.

From the author of the Finishing School series, featuring deadly ladies of quality, this story stands alone but you can find out what happened to the next generation in Reticence.

Delicate Sensibilities?

Contains men pleasing women, and ladies who know what they want and ask for it, sometimes in detail. May also contain plaid, dainty sandwiches, and the strategic application of leather gloves. 

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Edgar Allan Poe. Audiobook Sample ISBNSABLIB8227 Detective Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe books. Audiobook Sample ISBNSABSCA0018 Classics

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, By Mark Twain

Audiobook Sample:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Ready Player One, By Ernest Cline

Audiobook Sample:  Ready Player One

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White Fang by Jack London, Book Review

White Fang by Jack London, Read on 7/25 to page 44 and on 8/3 to The End.

General Spoiler Warning, applies to nearly all books. If you’ve hear of a book and think you may want to read it based on what you’ve heard,DO NOT READ THE BLURB as the book’s introduction, regardless of where it is at.  This book, at Goodreads supplied 3 paragraphs of spoilers and one great intro paragraph. IF I had I read the Goodread’s Book intro it would have spoiled 2 parts of the book or at least several paragraphs.  

The one good paragraph was this one:

A classic adventure novel detailing the savagery of life in the northern wilds. Its central character is a ferocious and magnificent creature, through whose experiences we feel the harsh rhythms and patterns of wilderness life among animals and men.

I can not write a better non-spoiler intro to the book.  Sadly it was preceded by those other 3 paragraphs.  I try not to write spoilers, or if I do I at least make you decide to look at it. Rant Complete

I’m giving 5 of 5 stars.  It was NOT amazing, but I did love it.  With Goodreads I always get stuck with “It was Amazing”  Why do they do that?  Look at Amazon’s low to high star rating.  Look at Goodreads low to high star rating.  If I were giving a Goodread’s rating it would necessarily be 4 then I’d have to comment that it was 4.5. Not doing that anymore.  I’m using the Amazon rating.  It is consistent and makes sense.  At the top of Amazon’s chart they don’t  throw you a curve ball.

I really did love this book.  It felt like I was taken way back to my literary pre-puberty where I had long finished my book of Bible Stories and now my trips to the library were serving me baseball biographies like Ted Williams and Lou Gerhig, quickly followed by obsession on a long list of baseball hero biographies.  With baseball finished I was in the pre-puberty literary doldrums... until I discovered MYSTERY!  Hardy boys, Nancy Drew... being only allowed two books a week, 5 days a week I was waiting for the next trip the the library. Then an older brother allowed me to sneak his latest edition of Doc Savage.  130+ Doc Savage adventures later I was in the doldrums again.

Why all this about my ancient history?  Rin-Tin-Tin was on TV!  Sinking into White Fang was like stepping back into the adventures of my youth.  Only a few short pages into the book I was scared for the Henry and Bill characters.  My god, I could not have slept a second if I were them.  They were brave strong men through. The kind of men I was going to grow up to be.  

I was also confused.  I knew the novel was about White Fang.  Fortunately I didn’t really know what that means.  I’m Indian. Would an Indian Chief named White Fang com to the aid of  Henry and Bill who were becoming terribly afraid of a wolf pack that had been following them.  I could tell they were going to eventually have to face those wolves. Would one of the wolves be be called White Fang?

I was excited reading this book, just like with Ted Williams, the Hardy boys, and the invincible Doc Savage and his crew of loyal friends.  <spoiler>It was still a very long time until I knew with certainty who or what White Fang was. I wasn’t sure who White Fang would be until I knew.</spoiler>

Yes... White Fang would have been quite special had the librarian or my mother pointed me towards the row of Jack London books when I was young.  There would have been nights under the blankets with a flashlight so I wouldn’t be caught not sleeping after lights out.  My older brother, rest his soul, loved torturing me though and would always rat me out if he caught me. We had the same room.

Well, it is 4 or 5 decades later.  After this book I’ve already discovered that most of Jack London’s work are on Librovox.org. White Fang is here. I love listening and reading... Here’s a sample of the Librovox Audiobook (may also click the image below).  It’s ok, you can take a little 8 minute taste by Mark F. Smith, one of the best Librovox volunteer readers, from South Carolina.

The free ebook is here. Or if you prefer you can hit Amazon (who is growing ever more disappointing) and get the book FREE there too, and pay a few dollars for their whyspersync audio reading.

I’ll tell you this, if you don’t love Jack London already, and you do fall in love with his writing, you struck gold.  He was prolific and it appears most all his work is in the public domain.  So you’ll be able to get free ebooks and audiobooks, whatever suits your reading desires. Click the image below to check out the YouTube 1991 Movie of White Fang

My Goodreads Review of White Fang

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Allegiant by Veronica Roth: Book Review

Allegiant by Veronica Roth:  Read on 7/24 to p.123 on 7/31 to p.284 on 8/2/16 to Completion.  I also listened to the Audiobook while simultaneously reading.  Click Audiobook above or here for sample.

I am generous when I say it was “ok”.  I am not going to award Goodread’s 2 stars for this, rather Amazon’s 3 stars as that seems to reflect “OK” to me more accurately.  If you’ve read Divergent and Insurgent, and were still interested, go ahead and read Allegiant.  

I’ve not seen the movie, but this one time I hope they’ve taken great literary liberty with the movie. If they did, I think they had an opportunity to make the movie better than the book. Yes, a strange bird if ever seen...

My notes to myself on 7/24 suggested the story was exceedingly tedious and that Tobias was now the wimp and Tris the more powerful of the two.  They had joined the Allegiant <spoiler>--Can be uncovered at Goodreads--- </spoiler>1

I looking back over the series I was surprised to realize the plot.  I didn’t stop mid-sentence.  Details different, plot, same, although one of the three take the more interesting and more courageous climax, then puts you back to sleep with the conclusion.  By courageous, I’m talking about the author.

if this next little bit is a spoiler, I apologize, but you’ve just not been paying attention if it is a spoiler.  The roller coaster ride that books take you on, the ups, downs, and spins around... in this series consists much of “He loves me? He loves me not? Repeat.”   In Allegiant Ms. Roth does something that actually shocked me.  She alternated between Tris and Tobias point of view.  Previously, except in her short stories, the viewpoint was almost exclusively that of Tris.

Now for the giant Allegiant spoiler...  Wait for it.... Tobias is all... “She loves me? She loves me not? Repeat.” I’ve been told hindsight is always 20-20 vision.  Looking back I see why Ms. Roth selected to offer the story from multiple points of view.  I was critical in my early notes to myself: “What kind of garbage is this now?”  I had no clue that could be so necessary.  It isn’t that I dislike multiple points of view in a book.  I’ve just come to expect this series to be exclusively from Tris’s viewpoint.  I suppose Ms. Roth said, “To hell with my expectations, I am woman, let me soar...” and so forth. While I don’t think this was a great book Ms. Roth is indeed an A-list writer.

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See THIS Goodreads Review (Nearly the same)

1 Tumblr doesn’t allow for coding to hide some words, be able to click on the ‘reveal’ button and see the hidden words.  On Goodreads it is done like this:

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Sadly... Tumblr isn’t so advanced, and even refuses to allow smaller fonts, and having images serve as links... so my only solution to reveal tiny spoilers is to link to the Goodreads review at some point in the post. If you don’t see it above it is because I’ve not written the Goodreads review so I have a link to add on. Update on hiding spoilers: Tumblr claims to allow Markup, and this can be done in markup...