Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Rochelle O'Gorman

Rochelle Marie O'Gorman has been a professional writer for her entire ​adult life. After learning, very quickly, that news reporting was not for her, she began work as a film critic. O'Gorman has also reviewed television, theater, and print books, as well as writing general feature stories, before turning to audiobooks full time. The first syndicated audiobook reviewer in the United States, her reviews can be read in various newspapers around the country and she was awarded an Audie by the Audio Publishers Association for her work in spreading the word about audiobooks. She currently works reviewing audiobooks and writing essays. O'Gorman lives in the hayloft of an old barn with her lovely teenage daughter and a foul tempered parrot.

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AUDIOBOOKS: Foreign lands, short stories and death

We are veering away from mainstream audiobooks this week with an odd collection of short stories, an offbeat self-help audiobook about death, and an intriguing look at foreign lands.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Poking the hornet’s nest

According to reports from members of Congress, the briefing regarding what appears to be an illegal act of war on a foreign government was full of holes.

AUDIOBOOKS: A ghost story, a classic, and a thriller

This week we have an old-fashioned ghost story, the retelling of a classic, and an FBI thriller.

AUDIOBOOKS: Fiction and journalism

We start the new year with two historical fictions and some investigative journalism.

AUDIOBOOKS: Short stories

Short stories, well written and well told, are on the menu this week.

AUDIOBOOKS: Stories to shock, teach and entertain

We are moving a little off the beaten path this week with three audiobooks that shock, teach and entertain.

AUDIOBOOKS: Short stories and a scary novel

Two collections of short stories and a scary Chinese novel for your listening pleasure.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Hunger — who should eat, who not?

I can’t help but think that anyone struggling to find work, or get their life back on track after a personal catastrophe or trauma, should be encouraged to do so, not castigated and starved.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Alison Larkin, Part 1

The party is meant to launch Alison Larkin’s two latest ventures in which the genders of the main characters were switched in these “freely adapted” versions of two of Dickens’ classics, “A Christmas Carol” and “Great Expectations.”

AUDIOBOOKS: Scary stories for long winter nights

Here are three scary audiobooks to occupy those long winter evenings approaching the winter solstice.

AUDIOBOOKS: Novels to relieve holiday stress

Here are three novels to take your mind away from holiday stress.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Thanksgiving

I thought I would list all the reasons I am happy to live in this artistic little bubble I have been calling home for about 25 years.

AUDIOBOOKS: Science, literary fiction and a thriller

Intriguing science, literary fiction and a thriller are on the agenda this month.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Free time

My daughter’s life is very different. She is scheduled within an inch of her life, and while she is reaping benefits from her activities, it certainly comes at a cost.

AUDIOBOOKS: A long-lost manuscript and nonfiction

This week we offer a long-lost manuscript and two works of nonfiction.

AUDIOBOOKS: Thrillers and a novel

This week we have three thrillers and a novel about a marriage gone wrong.
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