Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

 Audio.  7.5 hours.

Read by the author.

Michelle loses her mother to cancer and explores the way it affected her.  There is a lot of discussion of Korean food and how to prepare it.

3.5 stars.

Family Family by Laurie Frankel

 India Allwood becomes pregnant at 16 and decides to place her baby for adoption, then she goes on to be a successful actress.

4 stars.

Wool by Hugh Howey

 Audio.  15 hours.

Read by Edoardo Ballerini.

In a future wasteland, people are living in underground silos.  Anybody who even mentions The Outside is punished.  Corruption exists even in a silo.

4 stars.

Tagging sci-fi even though I don't know if it strictly qualifies.

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

 Audio.  14.25 hours.

Read by Jean Brassard.  New narrator.  Ugh.  He's supposed to be an expert on Montreal accents, but it felt like listening to Pepe LePew.  I'll probably have to switch to reading instead of listening if he continues.

Gamache and company must prevent terrorists from poisoning the Montreal water supply.  Story brings them back to the monastery from a previous book, among other places.

3 stars.  

Probably would have another star if there was a different narrator.  Every French word was so over-pronounced that I couldn't understand them, so had trouble following parts of the story.

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

 Audio.  6 hours.

Read by Nan McNamara.

A family takes their annual beach vacation.  The mom is sandwiched between her adult children and aging parents.

4 stars as a summer beach read. Won't ever be mistaken for fine literature.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

 Audio.  14.5 hours.

Read by Saskia Maarleveld.

A 13 year old girl vanishes from summer camp in 1975.  Fourteen years earlier, her brother disappeared, never to be found.

Story was really good until the end.  Two smart women both think it's okay to leave said girl on a remote island to fend for herself because her family doesn't get her.  <eyeroll>

3.5 stars.

All Fours by Miranda July

 Audio.   10.25 hours.

Read by the author.

Semi-famous author abandons her cross-country drive 30 minutes from home.  Instead of returning home, she checks into a motel and spends the next two and a half weeks lying to her husband and friends.

While the writing was good, the topics weren't for me.  Also, another example of writers should write and leave narration to professionals.

2 stars.

A Better Man by Louise Penny

 Audio.  13 hours.

Read by Robert Bathurst.

Gamache and company try to solve the murder of a local woman who lived quite close to Three Pines.  Meanwhile, record rain threatens to flood Quebec, including Three Pines.

4 stars.

The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

Audio.  5.5 hours.

Read by the author. 

Author begins a year-long commitment to buy only essentials.  Peppered throughout are references to other challenges she undertook including losing weight and paying off debt.

Okay for what it was.  I rarely enjoy an author doing the reading on an audio book, but this one was fine.

3 stars.