• Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  • A Novel
  • By: Maria Semple
  • Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
  • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (17,170 ratings)

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

By: Maria Semple
Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
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Publisher's summary

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence - creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

©2012 Maria Semple (P)2012 Hachette Audio

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I'd give 20 stars If I could

I read this because I am going to Antarctica myself this Christmas, so read it just for that one reason. and ended up loving it front beginning to end. * At times there was some confusion on who's dialog it was because all the voices are the same.

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Not great

I had to read this for book club, but this book is definitely not my cup of tea. The narrator did a good job, but the book was just not good. I would suggest just not to waste your time with this one.

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Amazing

Narrator did a fabulous job with character shifts without being over the top and jarring - also a talented singer !!

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Enjoyed story

First, I would like to say that I really did enjoy this book, however it is very difficult to follow on audio version. I do recommend this to be a physical book read. Lotta communication goes back-and-forth via emails in the story and it is hard to pick up and follow with narration. There were times that I felt like I was a little bit lost and almost quit this book a couple of times. I’m glad that I didn’t because the story was good.

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Take me with you Bernadette

Of course I know it’s fiction. Yet the performance was so intriguing and the story so original that more than once, I felt like googling the Twenty Mile House. Listening on my ear buds, I smiled or outright laughed at what I heard so often that passers-by would cast me that look. I wish I could’ve told each one, it’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette! You should get it! It’s great!

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Great book

I loved this book. I think the characters were interesting how their lives interconnected/collided. I will definitely listen again.

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Funny throughout

Let's begin by saying the narrator is amazing! Funny, quirky and upsetting all at once.

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One of the best books I've ever read!

This is funny, engaging, heartwarming all at once. It can be read in small sips or large gulps and the style of using emails, faxes, texts, etc. is so fresh!

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Good Narration

The narration was very good. I got bored with the story and struggled to finish.

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Pretty good

This book was fun to listen to but at first I had a hard time following because of all the letters being read - who was writing? Who is this to? Took me a while to get used to the flow.
The one thing about the performance that I didn’t agree with is Bea’s voice…she sounded like she was 8 not 15, very baby-ish.

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