![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories jump around too much and it's hard to tell if some of the short stories are connected. I think this would have been much more enjoyable reading instead of listening. What did you like best about A Manual for Cleaning Women? What did you like least? Audible, seriously, consider re-recording this volume of stories, nixing the performances of the robot lady, who generally reads anything written in the third person. I am so grateful that her work has come to me, and so sad I didn't find it sooner, that most of us didn't find it until after she was dead. That being said, Berlin's writing is exquisite- she rights of harsh, beautiful, rough, dirty, gorgeous, sad, depressing, surreal situations and people- my heart feels like it is being torn open from beauty and grief listening to this work. I find the disparity in these two voices jarring and ultimately I am just going to buy the book so that I can read it to myself. The woman who reads "A manual for cleaning women" and others, does a rich, textured, feeling and gravelly performance. ![]() If I speed it up to 1.25 it is slightly more bearable, but no less bizarre. One of the narrators, whoever the woman is who reads "Grief" and others, has a voice not unlike a robot reading "talk to text." Her inflections are so alien and odd, I can barely stand to listen to her. ![]()
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