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- Eve Harris
- 09-14-21
Classic Anne Tyler
A great performance of a quintessential Anne Tyler work. It’s not plot-driven. Quirky characters abound! I was delighted to discover that “Dinner at the Homesick Diner” has more in common with early Tyler, eg, “Accidental Tourist,” than the more recent “Clock Dance.”
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- Barbara A Black
- 05-10-21
Really liked this one
The narrator did a fantastic job with all of the voices, especially the male voices were convincing. The ending was a bit lack-luster, but was fitting for the story.
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- Isabella
- 08-30-21
Depressing.
Ms Tyler is one of my very favorite authors. I wish I hadn’t read this one, though. The characters were all so flawed that I couldn’t like them. I found the cruelty toward children to be very depressing and I was glad when I was finished.
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- just asking for some common sense
- 04-08-23
Well-written but kind of depressing
I read this book and had memories of it being 5 stars all the way. But after listening to it I'm not so sure. Anne Tyler still wrote a great book, but it is missing the humor present in so many of her work. She has a knack for giving us a laugh or some hope in tough situations, but not in this book.
To day that this family is dysfunctional is an understatement. It opens as the mother of the family is dying. Then it goes through years and characters. I like some, I dislike others, and some I'm still not sure. Be prepared to be sad.
Would I recommend it? Yes, but if you've read a lot of Anne Tyler forget that she wrote it. You will like it better that way. I think the narration is 5 stars.
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- Marianne Cleary
- 09-11-22
Not My Favorite
I'm a fan of Anne Tyler but Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is not one of my favorites. The characters were generally unlikable and the plot seemed to meander. Like other reviewers, I found the treatment of children (neglect, physical and emotional abuse) to be quite disturbing. This is not an uplifting story; rather, it is a study in the impact of unresolved childhood trauma and it's ripple effect across generations.
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- Ruth R-Evans
- 04-12-22
Families - Hard WORK
Until you're caught up in the middle of family chaos you NEVER KNOW what might happen. Each person has their own mind and abilities to comfort itself. So Sad MOST families don't have the communication or relationships that are caring & understanding with eachother. Most get experiences walking in another's shoes.
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- caroljo
- 11-27-21
Great writing style and performance, lethargic plo
Anne Tyler has an amazing style, and the performer was wonderful, but I never felt momentum or a real purpose in the plot. This certainly is a very good book, just not a great book.
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- M. Morrison
- 06-02-23
Great author
I’ve always enjoyed Anne Tyler stories. She is a gifted study of human characteristics, emotions, thoughts, behaviors and is able to articulate her observations. I like the characters and the realistic story lines.
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- Ms PAC Maam
- 05-14-23
Decent read
Was tough to keep up with it at times, but well worth the effort. A story of family -- not a tidy "Beaver Cleaver" type of family, but one with not so perfect parents, or siblings either for that matter. But in the end family is family with all the faults and scars.
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- Sue
- 04-13-23
Too dour for me...
The story was well written but painfully dour. If there were points made and a few weel-written moments, I didn't find them worth the heaviness of the book, overall. Well-narrated, though...
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Ian Bedloe is the ideal teenage son, leading a cheery, apple-pie life with his family in Baltimore. That is, until a careless and vicious rumor leads to a devastating tragedy. Imploding from guilt, Ian believes he is the one responsible for the tragedy. No longer a star athlete with a bright future, and desperately searching for salvation, he stumbles across a storefront with a neon sign that simply reads: Church of the Second Chance. Ian has always viewed his penance as a burden. But through the power of faith and the love of family, he begins to view it as a gift.
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Brilliant
- By MNtea on 02-26-22
By: Anne Tyler
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Earthly Possessions
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery - and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future and a most unexpected fate.
By: Anne Tyler
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Ladder of Years
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"Baltimore Woman Disappears During Family Vacation." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with $500 tucked inside. To the best of her family's knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace. But Delia didn't disappear. She ran.
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Terrific book, outstanding narration.
- By windymoon on 08-28-21
By: Anne Tyler
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Breathing Lessons
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland, to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials, and its triumphs - through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with patience and affection.
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This novel has earned all the recognition ---
- By DLTBGYD on 11-20-22
By: Anne Tyler
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Clock Dance
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but isn't sure she ever will be. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding why, she flies across the country to Baltimore....
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disappointed
- By Amazon Customer on 07-13-18
By: Anne Tyler
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Back When We Were Grownups
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Back When We Were Grownups is about one woman's search for who she really is. Listen as a 53-year-old grandmother tries to recover her girlhood self and that dignified grownup she had once been.
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Wonderful characters
- By Barbara on 08-19-03
By: Anne Tyler
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A Spool of Blue Thread
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon..." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture.
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The Sharp Edge Of Family
- By Sara on 03-10-15
By: Anne Tyler
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The Beginner's Goodbye
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, torn apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances: in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye.
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Anne Tyler at her Best
- By Elizabeth Ward on 05-06-12
By: Anne Tyler
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A Patchwork Planet
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Barnaby Gaitlin was never a bad kid, but he was certainly doing his best to impersonate one. As a teenager, he developed a habit of breaking into other people’s houses. But he wasn’t interested in the valuable loot - he just liked to read people’s mail, peruse their family albums, and maybe pocket a few personal mementos. Now almost 30 and divorced, he finds himself working for Rent-aBack, which helps the elderly and infirm move furniture or take down their Christmas trees. It’s the perfect career for Barnaby.
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amazing
- By Susan on 06-06-21
By: Anne Tyler
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French Braid
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common.
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Definitely not my favorite
- By 80 Oaks on 03-31-22
By: Anne Tyler
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Celestial Navigation
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Amy Finegan, Tara Ward, Barbara Barnes, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jeremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn - especially when he's falling in love.
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Not my favourite Anne Tyler book
- By Sue Craven on 07-27-23
By: Anne Tyler
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The Amateur Marriage
- A Novel
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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They seemed like the perfect couple: young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World W