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Young Adults/Children's
Sun, Apr 01, 2012
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME Archive
The Slave Across the Street by Theresa L. Flores
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Theresa Flores was a victim of domestic minor sex trafficking before we had a societal understanding that American girls can be enslaved in this country.
Young Adults/Children
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
*An Improvised Life by Alan Arkin
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
Long time reviewer, first for Kliatt and then with SoundCommentary since we began, Miles Klein passed away after a short illness on October 15. Miles was a loving and much-loved man: a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend. We shall miss him very much.
Young Adults/Children
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
Young Adults/Children's
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Everything I owned back in the mid 50's had Davy Crockett stamped or pictured somewhere on it, and I have never forgiven my parents for failing to buy me a coonskin cap and a horse.
*An Improvised Life by Alan Arkin
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
An Improvised Life paints a portrait of a man deeply involved yet secure in his craft - a man who takes great pleasure in sharing his knowledge and experience with others.
Young Adults/Children's
Sun, May 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
Young Adult/Children's
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
Young Adult/Children's
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
*Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somalia, in 1981 to a merchant marine father and a mother from a politically active family, and was trapped in exile when civil war erupted. She studied history and politics at Oxford, and has worked as a film researcher and scriptwriter.
A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Rita Mae Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mrs. Murphy mystery series (which she writes with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie) and the Sister Jane novels, as well as Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, The Sand Castle, and the memoirs Animal Magnetism and Rita Will. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, with cats, hounds, horses, and big red foxes.
Young Adult/Children's
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
Falling Free/Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Lois McMaster Bujold burst onto the SF scene in 1986 with SHARDS OF HONOUR, closely followed by BARRAYAR, and THE WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE, which introduced the physically handicapped military genius, Miles Vorkosigan. Since then she has won four Hugo Awards and two Nebulas. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
*The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
MARC SCOTT ZICREE has created classic episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon Five, Sliders, and others and is the author of the best-selling Twilight Zone Companion. He lives with his wife in West Hollywood.
Bradbury 13 by Ray Bradbury
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
RAY BRADBURY, one of the most popular science-fiction writers in the world, is the author of more than five hundred short stories, novels, plays, and poems. He has won many awards, including the National Book Award and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
101 Theory Drive by Terry McDermott
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Terry McDermott is a former national reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It. He lives in Southern California.
Young Adult/Children's Audios SUMMER FAMILY LISTENING II
Sat, Jun 26, 2010
More summer reading and good family listening, recommended by our staff.
Young Adult/Children's Audios SUMMER FAMILY LISTENING
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
For lounging around on a beach, for those long trips in the car, for a rainy summer day and for quiet nights of good family listening, our staff is pleased to recommend some exciting YA titles in all genres.
*Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
*Split Image by Robert B. Parker
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Robert B. Parker was the prolific, and award-winning, internationally popular author of 40 Spenser mystery novels, 9 Jesse Stone novels, 6 Sunny Randall novels, and numerous other novels, film and television scripts, and non-fiction. He died suddenly at the age of 77 on January 18, 2010 in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* * * * * THE BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2009 * * * * *
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
The editors of SoundCommentary ring in the New Year by looking back on what our staff selected as the best of the best in 2009.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English literature. He lives in Los Angeles. Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature.
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
LOUISE PENNY’s first Armand Gamache mystery, Still Life, won the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; her second, A Fatal Grace, won the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel; and her third, The Cruelest Month, was #1 on the hardcover IMBA bestseller list in March 2008, and her fourth, A Rule Against Murder, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in a small village south of Montreal.
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Francine Levitov admits to being just a little biased in favor of this book. From the day she first read it, in her rookie year in the Bronx criminal justice system, she has described it as the one book she most wished she could have written herself.
Ghetto Superstar by Nikki Turner
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Nikki Turner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Black Widow, the #1 Essence bestseller Forever a Hustler’s Wife, and the Essence bestsellers A Hustler’s Wife, The Glamorous Life, and Riding Dirty on I-95. The first two books in the Nikki Turner Presents line were published in 2008 by One World/Ballantine Books.
The Great Poets: William McGonnagle
Wed, Jul 01, 2009
William McGonnagall is one of the most frequently quoted poets in English. Imitation, however, is not always the sincerest form of flattery.
Deep Inside of Hana's Suitcase
Tue, May 26, 2009
Francine Levitov would like to thank Tim Ditlow of Brilliance Audiobooks for arranging her visit, as well as Lisa Cahn and Stephanie Wolfe for their patient and gracious responses to her questions.
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Audios in Prison
Sat, Apr 25, 2009
Think for a moment about never having had the experience of being read to as a child.
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Rumpole in Retrospect
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, who died on January 16, 2009, was a British playwright, novelist, bon vivant, and former practicing barrister. His works include twelve collections of Rumpole stories, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He also wrote three acclaimed volumes of autobiography. He is pictured here with bewigged actor Leo McKern, who immortalized the role on television.
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME is a new column that will highlight a personal anecdote or memorable experience involving audiobooks. Readers are invited to submit one of their own for possible future publication. If you have one you'd like to share, email it to francine@SoundCommentary.com. We will be happy to hear from you and consider your piece.