Dominic Hoffman Archives

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana [in Booklist]

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Sidik Fofana’s exquisite debut is further enhanced by eight pitch-perfect narrators (but where’s the cast list?!) who embody the collection’s eight interconnected stories. “Banneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain’t pretty,” but evictions are pending because the building has been sold to create “deluxe...

The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter [in Booklist]

11 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, French, Repost, Translation

Exceptional narrator Dominic Hoffman adroitly assumes the internationally mega-bestselling, 2020 Prix Goncourt-winning, Anglophoned latest from prodigious French author Hervé Le Tellier. Hoffman begins as professional assassin Blake, then becomes frustrated author Victor, film editor Lucie, and David, who is about to be diagnosed with terminal...

Listen-Alikes: Tell Me a (Short) Story [in Booklist]

22 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Indian American, Japanese, Jewish, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Lists, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American, Translation

Short stories can be the perfect antidote to these days of winter blues, pandemic panic, and cabin fever. Deesha Philyaw’s debut short-story collection – The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a much-lauded, National-Book-Award-finalist – illuminates the lives of nine Black woman with a performance from Janina...

Best Audiobooks of 2020 [in Library Journal]

08 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, British, European, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American, Vietnamese American

Best Audiobooks of 2020 by Stephanie Klose and Terry Hong This year’s top audiobooks, selected by LJ’s audio editor and reviewers, represent the best recorded literature published between November 2019 and December 2020. In a year that’s been like no other, these picks moved us, provided escape, and...

145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers [in School Library Journal]

28 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW This 20th-anniversary edition features a 10-reader cast performing the original 10 stories, with additional "Bonus Content" that includes a dozen "Tributes" by literary luminaries, including Christopher Myers, Lois Lowry, and Jason Reynolds, extolling the late, great Walter Dean Myers's enduring legacy to diverse children's...

Deacon King Kong by James McBride [in Booklist]

19 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW On a cloudy September 1969 afternoon, septuagenarian widower Sportcoat – less respectfully dubbed Deacon King Kong for his addiction to the local moonshine – shot 19-year-old drug dealer Deems, then saved Deems’ life with an unseemly version of the Heimlich maneuver when Deems nearly...

Exhalation by Ted Chiang [in Booklist]

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW Ted Chiang, whose 1998 novella “Story of Your Life” (included in Stories of Your Life and Others, 2002) became the Oscar-nominated film Arrival, returns with another intriguing collection comprised of seven previously published stories plus two new ones. Edoardo Ballerini voices four, Dominic Hoffman...

Small Country by Gaël Faye, translated by Sarah Ardizzone [in Library Journal]

24 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, European, Fiction, French, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW French singer/rapper Gaël Faye transforms his own background into an impressive, searing coming-of-age first novel about a Burundian family's implosion during the 1990s. What seemed like an idyllic, privileged childhood for 10-year-old Gabriel – made memorable by mischievous adventures with close friends – begins...

Fortune Smiles: Stories! by Adam Johnson [in Library Journal]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW To bring Adam Johnson’s six stories – which together won the 2015 National Book Award for fiction – to waiting ears takes a village of seasoned narrators. In “Nirvana,” Jonathan McClain deftly voices a desperate husband who uses technology to soothe his ill wife. Dominic Hoffman –...

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

20 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction

At 91, Ptolemy Grey is "waiting to finally be a man." as he writes in his last letter, addressed to his young charge and heir Robyn. The novel begins backwards with an "Afterward" that summarizes the whole of Ptolemy's nine-decades-plus, but to understand why he's...

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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana [in Booklist]

The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter [in Booklist]

Listen-Alikes: Tell Me a (Short) Story [in Booklist]

Best Audiobooks of 2020 [in Library Journal]

145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers [in School Library Journal]

Deacon King Kong by James McBride [in Booklist]

Exhalation by Ted Chiang [in Booklist]

Small Country by Gaël Faye, translated by Sarah Ardizzone [in Library Journal]

Fortune Smiles: Stories! by Adam Johnson [in Library Journal]

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

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