Reviews by Fran

Name: Fran (sutton, United Kingdom)

Reviews Written: 3

Titles Rated: 19

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How to Be a Woman

By Caitlin Moran

Narrated By Caitlin Moran

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(15)
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1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch" from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain.... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina?

UNABRIDGED 8 hrs and 44 mins
How to Be a Woman

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- by Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by Caitlin Moran
"Great listen"

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I loved listening to this and have recommended to many female friends. Part-memoir, part-feminist manifesto, it's entertaining and funny and challenges the perceived norm for women. Refreshing and empowering.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful
The Help

By Kathryn Stockett

Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell

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(1819)
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(42)
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(41)

Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.

UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 6 mins
The Help

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- by Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by Jenna Lamia , Bahni Turpin , Octavia Spencer , Cassandra Campbell
"Fantastic audiobook"

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This is my favourite audiobook so far, I didn't want it to end. The narration is superb, bringing the characters to life. The story is a brilliant - it tackles US civil rights from an angle I hadn't come across before and does it with a humour and warmth that really engages. I will listen to this again.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Taking on the World

By Ellen MacArthur

Narrated By Lisa Coleman

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(19)
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On February 11th, 2001, Ellen MacArthur sailed into port in France, completing the Vendee Globe, the world's toughest race. Alone and unsupported, she had spent more than three months at sea and had coped with storms, exhaustion, rigging failures, and a catastrophic collision with a submerged object. But Ellen never gave up and, at the age of 24, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. This is Ellen's story, from her childhood in land locked Derbyshire, to that historic race.

UNABRIDGED 13 hrs and 14 mins
Taking on the World

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- by Ellen MacArthur
- Narrated by Lisa Coleman
"Disappointed"

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I've had a soft spot for Ellen MacArthur for a while, I am similar age to her and was living in France when she completed the Vendee Globe 2001 - the French went crazy for her, it was exciting to see someone my age accomplish so much.
And yet I found the audiobook very disappointing, it was a good description of events but I wanted more from it - the passion, the fear, the feelings that are stirred up when a peer is in danger... to me that was all missing. I didn't warm to the characters around her - perhaps the audiobook lost something by not having the photos a book would.
What a shame.

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