Riding Lessons
Sara Gruen, , read by Maggi-Meg Reed. . HighBridge Audio, $34.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-59887-648-2
When the main character in a novel is as annoying as a boil, an audio performer must be thrilled at the chance to portray someone who isn't particularly nice or competent. Maggi-Meg Reed's Annemarie shouts, cries, whines, cajoles and lies her way through escalating crises. Reed is superb. She does an equally adept rendering of the other characters, including Annemarie's mother, with her thick Austrian accent and tight-lipped stoic voice. Eve, Annemarie's daughter, is a perfectly petulant teenager, speaking to her mother in a strident and querulous tone. A local policewoman has such a perfect New Hampshire accent that one wonders why the other locals don't. Despite the unsympathetic Annemarie, Reed's stellar performance makes Gruen's 2004 debut novel hard to turn off.
Reviewed on: 05/26/2008
Genre: Audio
Compact Disc - 979-8-200-71553-4
Hardcover - 387 pages - 978-0-7394-3982-1
MP3 CD - 979-8-200-71554-1
Mass Market Paperbound - 400 pages - 978-0-06-058027-8
Open Ebook - 416 pages - 978-0-06-154901-4
Other - 416 pages - 978-0-06-175323-7
Other - 1 pages - 978-1-59887-649-9
Other - 416 pages - 978-0-06-154905-2
Paperback - 416 pages - 978-0-06-124108-6
Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 416 pages - 978-0-06-154904-5
Pre-Recorded Audio Player - 978-1-60514-826-7
