#Barbara Rosenblat

[warningsine]

#orange is the new black #rosa cisneros #Barbara Rosenblat #lorna morello #yael stone #// #sine's edits #:')

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Reni Wassulmaier from the Grand Theft Auto series, who is genderfluid.

#reni wassulmaier #gta lcs #gta liberty city stories #grand theft auto liberty city stories #lcs #liberty city stories #gta vcs #gta vice city stories #grand theft auto vice city stories #vcs #vice city stories #gta series #grand theft auto series #rockstar north #rockstar leeds #rockstar games #barbara rosenblat #stephen bliss #genderfluid characters #canon queer characters #canon genderfluid characters #genderfluid

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody #5) by Elizabeth Peters #BookReview #CozyMystery #Egyptology #HistoricalMystery #AudiobookReview #BarbaraRosenblat

Who, or what, killed the night watchman at the #BritishMuseum's mummy exhibit? That's something #AmeliaPeabody and her husband, #RadcliffeEmerson want to find out. #DeedsoftheDisturber #ElizabethPeters #bookreview #audiobookreview #barbararosenblat

Can fear kill? There are those who believe so, but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria’s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy’s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy’s shadow; a look of…

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#Amelia Peabody #Amelia Peabody Emerson #Audiobook Narrator #Audiobook Review #Barbara Rosenblat #Book Review #Cozy Mystery #Deeds of the Disturber #Egyptology #Historical Fiction #Mystery #Radcliffe Emerson #Ramses Emerson #Series Books #Victorian Egypt #Victorian England

[milfsisyphus]

they let anyone narrate an audiobook. they shouldn’t.

#where’s barbara rosenblat. can we get her in here

[zephfair]

Thank you so much for tagging me @mychemicalrachel You made me really think about this one! 😘💖💖💖

Rules: in a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

I’m cheating because I’m procrastinating, these are mostly series, and I feel like babbling.🤣

1. The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. 🐴🐎🐴 I was that crazy horse girl growing up and I re-read most of these books so many times, especially The Black Stallion Mystery, I could’ve quoted them. Except for the weird end-of-the-world one. That one scared me so badly, I never could finish it.

2. Man O’ War by Walter Farley. 🐴🏇🏇 Same reason, I was a horse-obsessed kid and this one about the real-life, famous racehorse moved me and made me cry and I told everyone for years that I wanted to be a jockey when I grew up. SPOILER: I did not achieve this dream. But I still remember the book and story very fondly.

3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 🌸💮🌸 I read this as a kid and thought it was lovely and sad and very moving. I listened to an audiobook of it a couple years ago, and it held up.

4. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. As a teenager I got into the Tom Clancy novels (idk how; I think Mom bought me some used because they were very long and she thought it’d slow down my book consumption🤷), and I remember carrying this one to school for months because I would read it (656 pages!) in hidden snatches during study halls or free time. When I finished it, I did a book report on it and got an A.😂

5. Agatha Christie’s novels. I started reading them young and I think they convinced me that I and everyone I knew was eventually going to be poisoned to death or, alternatively, accused of poisoning someone to death.☠️🕵️🧐 She made me love mystery novels! I’ve started listening to her works on audiobooks and they’re still fun—overly convoluted and chock-full of dated red herrings—but fun!

6. The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. 💖💖💖💖💖 I love these books so much. I stumbled upon the first one just browsing in the library as an adult, and I read the series as quickly as possible. They’re fantastic, and some of the best first-person, unreliable narrator books I’ve ever read. They’re funny and full of adventure because Amelia and her family are Egyptologists in Victorian times. The later ones don’t hold up quite as well because of one relationship I will never like, but they’re still better than most other mysteries. The author was an Egyptologist so she gets all that right. The audiobooks with Barbara Rosenblat are amazing—she is fantastic!

7. Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters. 💀💖 Her standalone novels are definitely dated, but still more fun and entertaining than most other authors. I just love her style of writing, and she crafts characters that make me care because they feel like fully realized people. This one is in another of her series featuring Jacqueline Kirby who might be a stand-in for the author, but as I approach middle-age, I appreciate her a lot more. 🤣 This one pokes gentle fun at the romance novel industry—not the novels because the author literally wrote romance novels under another name—but the publishing industry as a whole. I have no idea if things have improved, but I hope so.

8. The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.🐢🐘❣️❣️❣️ I can’t even pick out my favorites, or the ones who’ve influenced me the most, because they all have. Finding Terry Pratchett’s works changed my life, and specifically, changed my ideas about writing and storytelling. I could talk forever about everything I love about his writing--because even the books I don’t love the most still have made me think and analyze things about life and myself--but I won’t. Just go read them. If anyone wants a specific recommendation, hit me up. There are different sagas within the series, and you can start with one of them.

9. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich was really interesting to me because her writing style is so spare and her characters are complete caricatures, but it worked for, like, five or six fun books. By the time I found her books, I was in my 20s and analyzing writing styles, and I still don’t want to write like her, but it’s okay for a really quick, action-packed read.

10. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. The first four books are incredible. The best fantasy I’ve ever read, and I will fight about this.😂🤣 I was introduced to them in college, and I read those 7 or 8 available, but especially the first four over and over. I loved his writing style, I was in awe of his world-building abilities, I adored his characters because even the ones I loathed felt like real people. I waited for years to read the final three, and I’m sorry and all apologies to Brandon Sanderson fans, but I was majorly, extremely disappointed. The change in style, the huge changes in characters, all of it was too much. I only read them once, cried a lot at the fate of some of my favorites, and was done. 😢

#sorry i went on forever #i'm struggling with job apps #STILL #and i'm ready to scream #thanks for the ask! #ask meme

[saifkadyrovroleplay]

Barbara Rosenblat nel ruolo di Elaine Kaufman, la proprietaria del ristorante Elaine's di Manhattan, dove O'Neill mangia spesso.

[peabodyfan]

📚🌂The second in the Amelia Peabody mystery series is The Curse of the Pharaohs written by Elizabeth Peters.🌂📚

On a personal note this was the very first Amelia Peabody book I read or actually listened to. I worked at my local public library and this 👇book-on-tape came across my circulation desk. I checked it out simply because I liked the title. And it began a 17 year long love affair with Elizabeth Peters books.

Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

#amelia peabody #elizabeth peters #mystery series #mystery books #archaeology #books #egyptology #adventure books #egyptian #egyptologist #egypt #The Curse of the Pharaohs #Barbara Rosenblat #archaeologist #audiobook #audible #books and libraries #book-on-tape

[wordsandpeace2u-blog]

Book review: Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

Book review: Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by By Dorothy Gilman Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: 1992 6.75 hours This book counts for the following Reading Challenges:       MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BOOK MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BOOK It is really time to rediscover Mrs. Emily Pollifax, who’s been called Miss Marple’s cousin. She’s a very active grand-mother, member of a…

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#Barbara Rosenblat #dorothy gilman #Emily Pollifax #Safari #Zambia

[allatariel]

This is the first half of the 1991 press reel for The Secret Garden, the musical through which I first discovered Mandy Patinkin could sing, and how! It’s also composed and written by women, Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, as well as based on a novel written by a woman, Frances Hodgson Burnett.

I performed a few of the solos back when I was still studying, many years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever seen any of the staging! Thanks to aurora spiderwoman for making this available!

#the secret garden #lucy simon #marsha norman #frances hodgson burnett #original broadway cast #1991 press reel #daisy eagan #mandy patinkin #rebecca luker #robert westenberg #alison fraser #john cameron mitchell #john babcock #tom toner #kay walbye #michael devries #barbara rosenblat #aurora spiderwoman #part 1 of 2

[weiszrchel]

#a pure scene #oitnb #orange is the new black #oitnbedit #lorna morello #yael stone #barbara rosenblat #miss rosa #*

[blodbranddod]

Orange is the new black (2013-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c

#orange is the new black #oitnb #barbara rosenblat #rosa cisneros #stephanie andujar #this scene is gold #don't fear the reaper

[warningsine]

#tricia's death upset me but this one felt cathartic like thelma and louise's. going out on your own terms when you've got no choices left. #fitting for a character like #rosa cisneros #orange is the new black #Barbara Rosenblat #// #sine's edits

[castleofhearts]

Alice in Wonderland audiobooks (Part 2) Top to bottom:

Narrated by Shannon Parks, from GIldan (2010) Narrated by Miriam Margolyes, from Bolinda Publishing (2010) Narrated by Joanne Frogatt, from Dreamscape Media (2015) Narrated by Georgia Lee Schultz, Barbara Rosenblat, full cast, from Blackstone Audio (2015) Narrated by Jack Golia from Bassett Publishing (2018) Narrated by Heidi Gregory, from Our Life Publishing (2018) Narrated by Katie Leung, from Randomhouse Audiobooks (2019) Narrated by Bailey R Johnson from AudioKidz (2019) Narrated by Kevin Theis, Sam Theis, Sara Nichols, Milo Theis, from Soundcraft Audiobooks (2020) Narrated by Simon Bubb, from Thomas Nelson (2020)

#alice in wonderland #alices adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass #books #covers #book covers #album covers #audiobooks #trad pub #indie pub #original post

[bargainsleuthbooks]

#LionintheValley #AmeliaPeabody#4 #ElizabethPeters #BarbaraMertz #Bookreview #AudiobookReview #BarbaraRosenblat #Egypt #CozyMystery

I've been enjoying revisiting the #AmeliaPeabodyMystery series on #Audiobook. #BarbaraRosenblat does such an amazing job bringing the characters to life, and I love a #cozymystery set in #Victorianera #Egypt #lioninthevalley #elizabethpeters #bookreview

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#Amelia Peabody #Amelia Peabody Emerson #Audiobook Review #Avon Books #Barbara Mertz #Barbara Rosenblat #Blackstone Audio #Book Review #Crocodile on the Sandbank #Curse of the Pharaohs #Elizabeth Peters #Harper Collins #Mummy Case #Series Books #The Curse of the Pharaohs #The Mummy Case #Tor Books #William Morrow & Company

[peabodyandemerson]

The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog

- Completed January 19, 2021 -

Murder! Amnesia! False Identities! Cat sitting! 

Amelia and Emerson return to the scene of their first adventure together in Egypt in this seventh book of the series. My thoughts under the cut...

As you can see, I finished this book last month. It’s unfortunate that I didn’t sit down right away and write out this post because I’ve read several books since then and it’s not as fresh in my mind!

I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads, but this really would have been 3 1/2 stars, I think. Honestly, most books in this series rank around there. There always seem to be moments I actively dislike, and the mysteries never really do it for me. The action is too spread out, and the stories all seem to follow the same patterns. And, of course, there’s never enough actual archaeology going on.  I used to love the dynamic between Amelia and Emerson, but with this book I think I grew a little tried of their more unhealthy attitudes. Ramses didn’t have an active part in this book, so he wasn’t there to make me hate him more or start to hate him less. His letters were fine enough. Nothing too eye-rolling this time lol. 

Since I only remember bits and bobs of the story, I’ll just divide my thoughts into two sections:

Nitpicks: I had a problem with the way Mertz kept referring to Nefret in the last book, and it really didn’t get any better here. There’s so much objectification of “exotic” women in these books, and there’s no shortage of “whiteness is the superior beauty” sentiment to be found in the series either. I hate how she feels the need to constantly mention Nefret’s physical appearance. This is a child we are talking about, and the author thought it would be totally cool to mention her adult male character (who acts as a father to this 13 year old girl) admiringly watching her figure as she walked? Am I the crazy one here to think that is irredeemably gross??

Ramses having a crush on Nefret is fine as long as he doesn’t turn into more of a creep, but I sincerely hope Evelyn raises Nefret instead because the girl is already calling Ramses “brother” and I don’t want this to be more creepy. 

Amelia is writing this down as if she is working on publishing it. And yet refers to keeping the secret of the lost oasis? 

I hate Emerson’s hypocrisy about sex and gender roles. It is not endearing. 

I hate the constant “in your face” nature of the “English gentlemen” stereotype. It is mentioned in this book so often that I started to lose my patience. I know Mertz is American and these books are often tongue-in-cheek, but it was just too much for me this time around. “No English gentlemen would do this,” or talk of “the infallible British moral code” ...like these aren’t the folks committing the highest number of atrocities in the world during this time.

I usually love dragging men when they deserve criticism, but I’m afraid Amelia really crosses the line into “man-hating feminist” sometimes. But you get the feeling she has a ton of internalized misogyny too. At least she almost acknowledges it from time to time. Plus Amelia is classist as heck. 

Amelia’s comments about beards on men were really messed up.

You knew something was up with Cyrus this whole time because Mertz goes out of her way to constantly show how much Amelia trusts him wholeheartedly. It was so silly because he hasn’t showed up in a book for ages. I pretty much knew Sethos was involved very early on. 

Emerson punched Amelia in the face to knock her out. Sorry y’all, there is NO EXCUSE for this. I don’t care what his motive was. I loved Emerson in the early books, but this is not okay.

Things I liked: Abdullah and Amelia finally showing a bit of relationship development. Him referring to Amelia as “my daughter” was a very sweet moment.

This was my first time listening to Barbara Rosenblat’s narration. She brought Amelia to life in a way I hadn’t previously experienced, and it definitely enhanced my reading. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t say she did the male voices particularly well though. 

Despite my criticisms with the way Mertz writes everyone around Nefret behaving and thinking, I do like Nefret herself. She has a bit of an Anne of Green Gables thing going on at the start of the book. Nefret of Amarna House. Her making Amelia promise not to go down to the school and hit the mean girls over the head with her parasol was pretty funny.

One thing I appreciate about this series is the way Barbara Mertz will tie in some of her real world knowledge of ancient Egypt to loosely fit the theme of the book. Most of the time it is a flimsy connection, but at least it may teach me something new! In this case, I had never heard the tale of the Doomed Prince, so I was happy to learn about it.

The scene where Amelia was drunk was very funny, but I’m sad a dog was tortured and killed for this scene to happen.

“Cats cannot be held guilty for their actions, since they have no morals to speak of.” Can agree. Have cats.

Conclusion:

So I’m sorry this isn’t a well-written, thought-out review. I guess this is mostly for me to come back to reference. These books are best enjoyed really spaced out from one another lol. They can be really difficult to enjoy. I thought they were going to be comfort books, but they are a bit too problematic for that. I will continue to read thought the series, but it will probably be longer between entires if they stay so same-y, predictable, and disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, they aren’t bad. It’s just that I’ve been chasing the same feeling I got when reading the first book in the series, and I just haven’t had that experience again. Also, I’m sorry if I sometimes refer to the author as Mertz, but say Peters other times. I’m also sorry for my poor writing skills in general, but like I said, these posts are mostly for me. 

#amelia peabody #Amelia Peabody Series #the snake the crocodiles and the dog #elizabeth peters #Barbara Mertz #goodreads #book review

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Written By: Carol Ann Lee Narrated By: Barbara Rosenblat Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Date: February 2012 Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes

#Anne Frank's Story: Her Life Retold for Children #Anne Frank's Story Audiobook #Audiobook #Kids #Carol Ann Lee #Barbara Rosenblat