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Thank You for Listening
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan is $1.99! Fingers crossed this deal is still valid. Sarah mentioned this on Hide Your Wallet and was interested in the meta-ness of it. She also had Whelan on the podcast!
From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan’s uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel.
For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger.
On her return home, Sewanee discovers one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists wanted her to perform her last book—with Brock McNight, the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Sewanee doesn’t buy what romance novels are selling—not after her own dreams were tragically cut short—and she stopped narrating them years ago. But her admiration of the late author, and the opportunity to get her grandmother more help, makes her decision for her.
As Sewanee begins work on the book, resurrecting her old romance pseudonym, she and Brock forge a real connection, hidden behind the comfort of anonymity. Soon, she is dreaming again, but secrets are revealed, and the realities of life come crashing down around her once more.
If she can learn to risk everything for desires she has long buried, she will discover a world of intimacy and acceptance she never believed would be hers.
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Remember Me
Remember Me by May Balogh is $3.99! This is book two in the Ravenswood series and it came out summer of last year. I don’t remember hearing much about this one, but I know Balogh is an auto-buy author. Did any of you read this one?
Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.
Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. Then her brother caught their father out in a clandestine affair and denounced him publicly. The whole family was disgraced, and Philippa’s hopes grew dim, then were fully shattered when she overheard the dashing, handsome Marquess of Roath viciously insult her upon learning of her father’s identity. Only years later does Philippa find the courage to go to London at last to meet the ton. She is an instant success and enjoys a close friendship with the granddaughter of a duke. Only one man can spoil everything for her, but surely he will not be in London this year.
The Duke of Wilby is nearing death and has tasked his grandson and heir, Lucas Arden, Marquess of Roath, with marrying and producing a son before it is too late. Lucas, who usually shuns London, goes there early in the Season in the hope of finding an eligible bride before his grandparents come and find one for him. He is instantly attracted to his sister’s new friend, until that young lady asks a simple question: “Remember me?” And suddenly he does remember her, as well as the reason why the daughter of the Earl of Stratton is the one woman he can never marry–even if his heart tells him she is the only woman he wants.
Unfortunately for Philippa and Lucas, the autocratic duke and his duchess have other ideas and believe them to be perfect for each other. They will simply not take no for an answer. Telling Philippa the full truth is the hardest thing Lucas has ever faced, and the discovery of it will change them both before they discover the healing power of love.
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The Love and Lemons Cookbook
The Love and Lemons Cookbook by Jeanine Donofrio is $1.99! This is a veggie focused cookbook with plenty of vegan and gluten free recipes/modifications. Donofrio’s Love and Lemons Every Day is also on sale for $2.99! Do you own Donofrio’s cookbooks? What do you think?
Sometimes all you need is a little spark of inspiration to change up your regular cooking routine. The Love & Lemons Cookbook features more than one hundred simple recipes that help you turn your farmers market finds into delicious meals.
The beloved Love & Lemons blog has attracted buzz from everyone from bestselling author Heidi Swanson to Saveur Magazine, who awarded the blog Best Cooking Blog of 2014.
Organized by ingredient, The Love & Lemons Cookbook teaches readers how to make beautiful food with what’s on hand, whether it’s a bunch of rainbow-colored heirloom carrots from the farmers market or a four-pound cauliflower that just shows up in a CSA box. The book also features resources to show readers how to stock their pantry, gluten-free and vegan options for many of the recipes, as well as ideas on mixing and matching ingredients, so that readers always have something new to try.
Stunningly designed and efficiently organized, The Love & Lemons Cookbook is a resource that you will use again and again.
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The Drunken Botanist
The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart is $2.99! This is a nonfiction exploration of plants that can be turned into alcohol, and the history of each. It seems like a perfect gift for science nerds, people who enjoy learning the history of the things they eat and drink – or both!
Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.
Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright bizarre, and one is as ancient as dinosaurs—but each represents a unique cultural contribution to our global drinking traditions and our history.
This fascinating concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and mixology—with more than fifty drink recipes and growing tips for gardeners—will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party.
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For any R. Cooper fans, Fox of Fox Hall is on sale at amazon for 2.99 right now.
I’m generally a huge Mary Balogh fan and used to pre-order (back when prices for her new books were more like $7-9 and not $15!) and read right away, but I found the first in this current series meh enough that I haven’t gotten around to reading the subsequent ones (and also bland enough that I can’t really remember why, nor anything else about it). I’ve bought them all on sale, though, and will try it again and read the rest at some point, I suppose.
Also of note for Balogh fans: All 4 books in the Simply series are on sale in audiobook form for $2.99 each on Chirp.
I’m a Balogh fan but haven’t been loving this latest series so far. There’s such a huge cast of characters — family, friends, random townspeople — that the books don’t focus enough on the romances! In REMEMBER ME specifically, I remember thinking the love story felt like an afterthought amid the bigger family saga. And the hero’s matchmaking grandparents basically guilt-trip him into marrying and producing an heir before they die…I think I was supposed to find them charming, but I did not.
That said, I am continuing to read the series (albeit from the library), so perhaps take the above with a few grains of salt. 🙂
Remeber Me by Mary Balogh was a solid B read for me, and the best book of the series so far. (The first and third books were C reads.)
I enjoyed Thank You for Listening as an audiobook, but I have an issue with the narrator (who is also the author) that is very silly, but it takes me out of the story. I know that Julia Whelan is a very popular narrator of audiobooks, but the way she pronounces the word “appreciate” drives me right around the bend. She says it like “appreshiate”. I had to give up on listening to the later books in the Chicagoland Vampire series because of how she says it – Chloe Neill used the word a lot and the pronunciation was off putting to me. It may be a regional thing, and I feel very silly about it, but as soon as I started listening to Thank You for Listening, I knew it was the same person narrating it who narrated Chicagoland Vampires. It lessened my enjoyment of the book.
I think most British people would say ‘appreshiate’. Posh ones might not?
Take a peek at another COOKBOOK:
PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet by Carleigh Bodrug is on sale on kindle… for some people. (Not for me, so I don’t know the price.)
This was recommended to me by a knitting friend who prioritizes eating healthy for herself and her family. (She wishes she didn’t have to go through the hassle, but her body objects if she doesn’t make the effort.)
I’m intrigued enough that I might even get the dead tree edition… one day.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING: I enjoyed this one! The meta here happens with tons of romance tropes that are called out as they come along. I also loved the level of detail about the FMC’s career. It made the story much more interesting. What didn’t quite work for me was the level of angst. Generally speaking, I love angst to propel a story along, but I just wasn’t wanting quite this much when I read the book a couple of years ago.
I’m just a regular lady from Michigan, and I’ve always pronounced it “appreshiate”. Now I’m wondering what the alternative is as I don’t know if I’ve heard it any other way.
Big fan of Julia Whelan and Thank You for Listening. I particularly enjoyed the episode at an audiobook conference. There a fan insists that voice actor Sewanee tell him who did the male voice in her recent release. No amount of explanation can convince him that she quite ably did all the voices herself. TYFL was a revelation for a new audiobook listener like me. BTW, the audiobook version of Thank You for Listening in on sale for $5 at Chirp, though I don’t know for how long. Whelan narrates herself of course. https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/thank-you-for-listening-by-julia-whelan
Thank You For Listening was one of the greatest audiobook I’ve ever listened to. It’s probably almost as fun to read.
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To tell the truth, if I were listening to an audiobook narrator who pronounced appreciate as appre-see-ate (which I assume is the alternative) I would find that much odder than appreshiate. Reminds me of my teen years when I first heard a recording of Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales. I never recovered from the cats “sleek and long as jag-you-ars.” To this day, holidays and heavy snow will have me rolling out that three syllable version of panthera onca’s common name. I always figured, he wrote it; he could pronounce it as he pleased.
@Cristie: I read Fox of Fox Hall recently and quite enjoyed it.