I felt a tiny bit of trepidation when I saw My Oxford Year being compared to Me Before You, only because my immediate reaction was to protect my poor heart. However, while My Oxford Year definitely had some sadness to it, I found it to be an utterly romantic and ultimately uplifting story. As we […]
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Ex Libris Audio: The Last Of August
The first book in this series was more about how Watson and Holmes were as individuals, both dealing with the notoriety of their families and how they struggled against those expectations and history. In The Last of August, I felt like it was more about how they interacted as a team and possibly as a […]
Ex Libris Audio: A Study In Charlotte
The tagline for this book says you’ve never seen Watson and Holmes like this before and, at least for me, this turned out to be true. There have been many, many retellings and re-stagings of the Holmes and Watson relationship, and while this book adds to an already crowded field, I think it did an […]
Ex Libris Audio: I’ll Give You The Sun
I’m not sure what I can say about I’ll Give You The Sun that hasn’t already been said. It is an amazing, emotional, thought-provoking, heart-breaking, joyful story that is expertly structured and delivered. I was skeptical about the dual voices since we only hear Jude as a 16 year old and we only hear […]