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November 29th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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John Pruden is a professional voice actor who records audiobooks, corporate and online training narrations, animation and video game characters, and radio and TV commercials. His exposure to many people, places, and experiences throughout his life—from his wide array of jobs early in life; to his Army service as a UH-60 Black Hawk assault helicopter pilot; to his travels through forty-four U.S. states, South America, Europe, and Asia; to his experience in professional improv and competitive singing—provides a solid creative foundation from which to draw for his intelligent audiobook narrations and gritty but sensitive vocal characterizations. His audiobooks include The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, which was chosen by the …
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October 16th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Winner of Canada Reads 2012 Written By: Carmen Aguirre Narrated By: Carmen Aguirre Published By: Post Hypnotic Press Audiobooks Length: Unabridged 9 Hrs. 36 Min. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter is the winner of Canada Reads 2012. It is the account of Vancouver actor, director and playwright Carmen Aguirre a child of Chilean revolutionaries who herself became an active member of the underground resistance during Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1980’s Chile, the war in Peru, the dictatorship in Bolivia, and further unrest in Argentina. In Chile in 1973, a brutal coup removed the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende from office …
Anne Flosnik is an accomplished British actress with lead credits on stage, television, commercials, and voice-overs. A seasoned narrator, she has garnered two AudioFile Earphones Awards, an ALA Award, and three Audie Award nominations. Her narration of Little Bee by Chris Cleave was chosen as one of the Best Audiobooks of the Year by AudioFile magazine and one of the Top 40 Best Audiobooks of 2009 by Library Journal. Anne can be found on the web at: www.anneflosnik.com About Audiobooks: JP: Anne, how did you get your start in audio books, and what made you interested in the genre in the first place? Were you yourself an audiobook listener? AF: …
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April 27th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Hardcover: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Published February 2012 by Random House Publishing Note: This is both a review of the hardcover edition of The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, self-purchased copy, and a review of the Audiobook, also self-purchased. The Book: I admit, freely and wholeheartedly from the get go, and in the interest of full disclosure, that I have a full-on literary crush on Matthew Pearl. He had me at “The.” However, that being said, if I’d never been lucky enough to be familiar with Mr. Pearl’s work prior to The Technologists, I’d make it my goal to become familiar now. In the aftermath of the recently climaxed Civil …
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