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In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- By Christopher Meeks on 05-25-19
By: T. C. Boyle
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The Bell Jar
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- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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A must-read for every woman
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-06-16
By: Sylvia Plath
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The Mad Scientist's Daughter
- By: Cassandra Rose Clarke
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion…and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world, and in Cat’s heart.
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An Exquisite Tale of Transforming Love
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
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A Doubter's Almanac
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Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of Northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at UC Berkeley, he realizes the extent - and the risks - of his singular gifts. California in the '70s is a seduction, opening Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there - and the rival he meets alongside her - will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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The curse of genius?
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On Mystic Lake
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On the day her daughter leaves for college, Anne Colwater's husband of 20 years announces he wants a divorce. Her roles of wife and mother suddenly gone, Annie retreats to her childhood home of Mystic, Washington, to heal. There she finds her old friend Nick, suddenly widowed and unable to cope with his emotionally scarred young daughter, Izzie.
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Never been so disappointed
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Miracles on Maple Hill
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A father's wounded heart. A mother's patient love. An eager boy, an impetuous girl, and, above all, the healing power of nature. These are the classic ingredients that fill Virginia Sorensen's Newbery Award-winning novel with a tender power and lift it to classic status.
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Wonderful, uplifting book for all ages
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The Visiting Privilege
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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I sure tried.
- By A.C. CALLOWAY on 01-28-24
By: Joy Williams
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Mermaids
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So begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of 14-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and her sister Kate move with Mrs. Flax into a sleepy 1960's Massachusetts town. Mrs. Flax is a woman who wears polka-dot dresses and serves hors d'oeuvres for dinner every night, and Kate is a child who basically wants to be a fish. And then there's Charlotte, who in Patty Dann's hands, is transformed into a young woman of infinite whim and variety.
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Finally!
- By Daryl on 05-07-13
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The Shadow Year
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On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas... and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.
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Couldn't stop listening!!!
- By Marjory on 12-12-10
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Arcadia
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Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- By Kathleen on 03-22-12
By: Lauren Groff
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- Corrie Beeman
- 10-29-21
Terrible ending
I was mostly enjoying the book but I didn’t like that Angie never shared her inner thoughts. Maybe it’s a time period thing but frustrating. And the ending was super anticlimactic and blah!
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- Love222
- 05-04-21
Interesting listen
This was interesting, at first it was hard to place the setting of this one. It was definitely of another era but hard to place. Then after doing a little research on the author and when it was written it made a little more sense. It's a sweet look at the time but very slow moving and full over drawn out descriptions but brings you back to a slower time. Narration is done well.
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- Tammy Goad
- 07-20-18
Takes you back in time to a slower pace!
This made my mind go back to a simpler time. A time with values...morals.....true love that lasts.
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- Mary Conmee
- 03-15-21
sweet summer
I read this as a teenager. Wonderful, sweet story about first love. So happy to have found this again.
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- Amanda Buccheri
- 09-04-22
Very charming
I was going to rate this book a lot lower because although I found it charming, I also found it incredibly boring more than half the time. I saw it came out in 2011 and thought this was written by a modern writer attempting to write about a different era. I had no idea that this book in fact came out in 1942 and was written by Miss Daly when she was a teenager in the 30s! That explained a lot and after that I found the book to be more endearing and authentic. It is apparently regarded by many as the very first young adult novel! It is honestly worth a read just for that reason.
I was drawn to this book bc I was looking for a summer read and also I love this narrator. She did a wonderful job with all the voices and tones of the characters. Julia really helped sell that this was the 1940s. You can tell what character is talking just by the voices she makes, she really acts them out well. My fav voice was the one she did for Lorraine but I was also impressed by the depth she brought to Angeline and her various teen emotions. I will def keep searching for books voiced by her.
This book is full of descriptions of weather, food and scenery of every kind. Most early american writers like Steinback wrote like this, with page after page of description and very little dialogue. This may surprise and bore modern readers and I fell victim to this too until I realized how long ago this book was written. I was able to envision it perfectly and the writer really painted a picture of this time period.
(spoilers) I was able to relate to Angie just a little as her parents seemed to guard her like a treasure that could scarcely ever be removed from its chest, ie their home. Some parents are still like that in this time period and I truly don’t think they realize how much they are stunting their children’s growth. I think the reason why Angie was so naive and bewildered was bc of how attached she was to her family and how much they sheltered her.
I personally thought that Lorraine was a much more interesting character and I would have enjoyed more details about what exactly was going on with she and Martin. I guess the writing couldn’t be as direct bc of the time period but Lorraine seemed to insinuate to Angie that she was doing more than just kissing with Martin. I honestly expected Lorraine to get pregnant by the end but I guess she just gets disillusioned by life and love in general. She didn’t even seem to really like him that much, I think he appealed to her bc he was so different from her humdrum family and he was like an escape for her. I wish Jack would have revealed more about what he knew but I guess it was implied that Martin was cheating on Lorraine.
I found Jack and Angie’s meet cute and slow burn romance to be incredibly dull but I can see now that what they said and did together must have been incredibly exciting 80 years ago. I don’t understand why the writer didn’t reveal certain things to us. Like, did Angie really not say anything back to Jack when he confessed his love to her? Or when he proposed? Seemed like a very strange absence of dialogue there as well as during the Lorraine scenes.
It’s interesting how some things haven’t changed in 80 years, like parents being controlling and ppl looking down on others for not going to college. Some of the big differences that shocked and amused me were “not kissing during the day time” lol and how it was classless to bring the coffee pot right into the living room. And how Angie nearly hated Jack over dessert for humiliating her by clacking his spoon against his teeth while eating icecream! Lmao I honestly hated her a little bit after that for being so judgmental and I found her very unlikable and pathetic multiple times throughout the story. But I see now bc she grew up in the 30s and I in the millennium lol.
I was so irate with Angie when she went out with that other boy and I really just don’t understand what possessed her to do that. Regardless of Tony being a “fast boy” she claimed to love Jack and I don’t get why she was shocked by the consequences of her date with Tony. Even her sister yelled at her for being foolish but I guess it just further highlighted how naive Angie is.
I had an inkling that the ending would be unfavorable and I didn’t really care bc their romance was overall dull thus I did not get attached to it. I saw the symbolism of how when summer began, their love flourished like the flowers and then started to wane once fall approached. That was very well done. It seems like Jack is nothing but a happy memory for Angie in the end and I think her relationship with him helped her blossom as a person and prepared her for more life and love disappointments down the road. Whereas Lorraine’s seems to have branded her for life as Angie states. Or who knows, maybe she does see Jack again sometime, someday. It is def left open to that interpretation.
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- Taylor S.
- 10-01-20
It Was Okay
I’m glad this was just over 8 hours long...the use of the word “queer” for things like her mood, voice, smile, etc. was both annoying and confusing. “It gave me a queer feeling.” I’m not offended by the word itself, but the overuse of it was just too much and a bit distracting. I just didn’t enjoy this story in general. It sounds juvenile and amateur. But to each their own.
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- Carolyn D
- 11-15-21
Beautiful descriptions of weather.
There wasn’t much to it. Lazy summer, lazy relationship, Funny thing…the only thought I have right now is how clueless she is to be going to college. I don’t think that was the message.
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- Amazon customer
- 04-19-22
Enchanting!!!
This book has been a favorite of mine since I was 15! Over the years I’ve reread it over and over again getting lost in it pages! Some reviews on audible say it’s too descriptive but I disagree! I feel the way everything is described in this book makes it all the more real like you’re in the story yourself experiencing all the magic that young love and summertime offers!
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-11-23
Like a stroll through a summer once lived
At first, I didnt think I could finish this story because of how slow it is. However, I didnt want to give up on it, because the setting was refreshing and the people were likeable. I'm glad I didnt give up, because it ended up being a very sweet little story that took me back to my own summers as a kid, and made me remember all the fun things I used to do and want to do this summer. A great read for those who like to slow down and smell the roses.
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- Deborah RJ
- 04-30-23
Sweet and Sappy
The way life used to be.
I cringed often at the over use of similes and metaphors.
Reminded me of my summer before college in the 70’s.
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