January 2006--Volume IV, Issue 1
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Neil Gaiman is my hero. I will read anything of his I can get my hands on. I would read his shopping lists if he let me--I hear the lettuce is a deadpan laugh riot, and watch out for the bit of intrigue creeping down the pasta aisle. Yet despite all of that, Anansi Boys already had three strikes against it when I was handed the audiobook and asked if I would review it. Read the review.
The Beatles: A Biography
By Bob Spitz, read by Alfred Molina
Simon & Schuster Audio

For people of a certain age, the Beatles are the touchstone of a decade or even a defining moment in growing up. Bob Spitz acknowledges this iconic status but doesn't embellish it-instead he gives us a living, breathing portrait of all the boys who made up the Beatles including the ones that didn't make it in the end. Alfred Molina's performance of the book gives it the sort of breathless immediacy that the Beatles themselves engendered. It's a curious blend that works--whether relating the onset of Beatlemania or the spectacular downward spiral at the end of the story, you have the sense of an enthralled eyewitness account. No music is included but who can't summon up “Yesterday” in their head when confronted with Paul's tortuous quest for the right lyrics? -Ellen Myrick, Editor, The Heard Word,