Alan Rosenberg

Sep 5, 2024 | valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Alison Espach |Melissa Mogollón

Threebb new novels set in Rhode Island or written by Rhode Islanders, plus the latest from the estimable Rainbow Rowell, are worth your time in good audio versions. “The Wedding People: A Novel”By Alison Espach, read by Helen Laser. Macmillan Audio, 11½ hours, $26.99. I don’t know when I’ve been more pleasantly surprised by an audiobook. “The Wedding People” is set in Newport, and from the title you might guess that it would be a silly romance. But you would be so wrong.

Jul 26, 2024 | valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Riss M. Neilson |Julia Alvarez

The latest novels from an emerging Rhode Island writer and a bestselling Nantucket author are among four strong recent releases. “A Love Like the Sun”By Riss M. Neilson, read by Frankie Corzo. Penguin Audio, 10⅓ hours, $25. The new book from Rhode Island author Neilson is a romance with a Providence twist — and a serious message. It’s the story of Laniah Thompson, who’s working as a hotel maid to make ends meet while also helping her mother run their natural-beauty business.

Jun 19, 2024 | valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Ann Hood

Fiction gets both a local and an international flavor in these terrific audiobooks that tell of the lives of Asian Americans, Israelis in America, and Americans in Europe. “Lies and Weddings”By Kevin Kwan, read by Jing Lusi. Penguin Audio, 15 hours, $25. The author of “Crazy Rich Asians” is back with another high-concept novel of the foibles of the super-wealthy.

Jun 7, 2024 | dangeroustimes.info | Alan Rosenberg

REMEMBERING TOM MULLIGAN TOM MULLIGAN - In the Providence Journal newsroom, probably in the 1980s. I’M PRETTY SURE that Tom Mulligan did not know everything.      He might have come up short on particle physics; and maybe he hadn’t heard that “there are always several meanings of each word in Urdu,” a factoid I saw in a recent Google search.      But you wouldn’t have wanted to bet that Tom Mulligan didn't know something about physics and Urdu.

Aug 3, 2023 | valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Jenny Jackson |Stephen Amidon |Rebecca Makkai

Here are our latest audio book reviews for your summertime pleasure:“Pineapple Street”By Jenny Jackson, read by Marin Ireland. Penguin Audio, 8½ hours, $22.50. Can a middle-class Rhode Island woman find happiness with the son of a super-rich New York banking family? That’s the question posed by this debut novel by Jackson, executive editor at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house.