Cassie was hilarious in her reaction to him. In THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE, the voice of Hernandez, Cassie’s co-worker drew me right in. Her books are quirky and fun – an actor’s dream and a reader’s joy. Fabulously, and for completely different reasons.īy reading and listening to this book, something I tried for the first time, I realized that Katherine Center’s style is perfectly rendered for audio. Could THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE compete with my memory of the first book? Yes – it did. And, HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS was one of the best audibles I listened to last year. I was afraid I wouldn’t enjoy this book as much as the first book, because the subject matter wasn’t as intriguing to me. In comparison, both books were excellent. I realize it takes just the right actor to narrate a novel to its fullest benefit, which both of these narrators do, but I can read Center’s books faster than the narration, which tells me that it’s the writing that draws me in the most. I have loads of audibles in my TBR and very few of them finished. By the end of the day, I had gobbled up all 320 pages!īoth narrators of these two books are superb. I listened to a few minutes of Therese Plummer’s excellent narration, while reading my digital copy, and I was hooked. Well, I couldn’t even wait for our book club meeting the next day. On faith in this author’s talent, I blindly requested all the print and CD copies I could get, along with a digital and audio copy for myself on Libby, the handy library app I love.

It had been on my wish list, and I had every intention of ordering it on Audible sometime soon. So, I thought, why not choose her latest book? Even though I hadn’t read it yet. But the library didn’t have enough copies for the eight to ten of us. So, when it was my turn to choose a novel for our book club, I had every intention of recommending HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS. After listening to a sample of that book narrated by Margarite Gavin, I easily used one of my Audible credits to download it and read it right away. I fell in love with author Katherine Center’s style when I stumbled upon HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS last year. Funny and emotive, with forgiveness as a healing theme.

THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE by Katherine Center, narrated by Therese Plummer, is an entertaining way to spend 24 hours glued to a book.

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