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Friday, March 6, 2015
Amber Orrange scored 13 of her game-high 18 points in the second half, Lili Thompson added 14 and No. 19 Stanford held off a late charge from UCLA for a 67-62 win over the Bruins in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament on Friday at KeyArena in Seattle.
Friday, 7:24 PM | No comments yetIt's a crazy scenario that seems to defy description. The Stanford women's basketball team has shown this season it can beat the best, and has also shown it can lose to the not-so-best.
Friday, 9:31 AM | No comments yetDavid Nolan set several records in one swim Thursday and helped the Stanford men's swimming and diving team take over the lead following the second day of the Pac-12 Conference championships in Federal Way, Wash.
Friday, 12:58 AM | No comments yetThursday, March 5, 2015
Menlo School grad Mikey Diekroeger drove in four and the Stanford baseball team stranded 14 Texas runners to beat the Longhorns, 5-4, Thursday evening at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond in the first of a four-game series.
Thursday, 11:38 PM | No comments yetChasson Randle and Stefan Nastic each scored 16 points and Anthony Brown added 13, but the Stanford men's basketball team dropped a 67-62 Pac-12 decision to host Arizona State on Thursday.
Thursday, 11:30 PM | No comments yetThe drive to Bakersfield will be the same and Rabobank Arena will be familiar as ever. But, the 2015 CIF State Wrestling Championships this weekend will be different for Chris Horpel. This will be his last one as Gunn's head coach.
Thursday, 8:12 PM | 1 commentThe Menlo College women's basketball team received a reprieve from the NAIA and was awarded an at-large bid into the national championships that get underway on Wednesday at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa.
Thursday, 12:37 PM | No comments yetThe last time the Menlo-Atherton girls reached the Central Coast Section Division I basketball playoffs, the Bears fell to North Salinas in the championship game. That was 2010. Five years later, Menlo-Atherton has a chance to avenge that loss.
Thursday, 9:38 AM | 1 commentThe Palo Alto and Sacred Heart Prep girls plus the SHP boys all will play for Central Coast Section soccer titles on Saturday after the trio posted semifinal victories on Wednesday.
Thursday, 8:47 AM | No comments yetWednesday, March 4, 2015
Cardinal corner
Freshman Patrick Conaton posted a lifetime-best in the 200-yard backstroke and Stanford's relay units achieved a pair of NCAA A-cuts Wednesday to open the swimming portion of the Pac-12 Conference Championships in Federal Way, Wash.
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Six Stanford men and five women will compete in a total of five events at the NCAA indoor track and field championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas beginning Friday, March 13. The list was released Tuesday night.
Wednesday, 6:57 PM | No comments yetThe Stanford women's swim team will have 12 athletes at the 2015 NCAA championships after Wednesday's announcement from the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Committee.
Wednesday, 1:03 PM | No comments yetCollege report
The flat-seam baseball is having an effect on Division I baseball. The biggest statistical change from 2014 to 2015 is an increase in home runs that is up more than 40 percent from 0.33 per game in 2014 to 0.47 per game in 2015.
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CCS boys' hoops
Sacred Heart Prep saw its 16-game win streak end in a 64-59 loss to St. Francis in the Central Coast Section Open Division boys' basketball semifinal at Independence High School on Tuesday night.
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CCS girls' basketball
The Pinewood girls showed a knack for playing their best in crunch time last season when they won the CIF State Division V championship. That quality appears to have carried over to this season, as well.
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Menlo School grad Mikey Diekroeger collected four hits, one of six players with more than one in the game, and the Stanford baseball team set a season-high for runs in Tuesday's 13-8 nonconference victory over host San Jose State.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Amber Orrange, Lili Thompson, Bonnie Samuelson and Kaylee Johnson each received recognition from the league's coaches when the All-Pac-12, All-Defensive and All-Freshman teams were announced by the conference office on Tuesday.
Tuesday, 12:52 PM | No comments yetThanks to senior diver Kristian Ipsen, the Stanford men's swimming and diving team actually leads the Pac-12 Conference Championships, which won't even begin until Wednesday at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.
Tuesday, 11:38 AM | No comments yetCardinal roundup
For the second consecutive week, Stanford freshman goalie Allie DaCar won Rookie of the Week honors and was joined by teammate Kelsey Murray the Offensive Player of the Week -- among Mountain Pacific Sports Federation lacrosse honorees.
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The No. 13 Stanford women's gymnastics team made sure its Senior Night would be a night full of celebration, erupting for a season-best score to defeat visiting No. 25 Washington, 197.525-196.125, Monday night in Maples Pavilion.
Tuesday, 1:12 AM | No comments yetMonday, March 2, 2015
College golf
The Stanford men's golf team moved up one spot to second among the 14-team field at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate and Viraat Badhwar sits in a three-way tie for first after Monday's round in Mexico.
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Weekend prep roundup
Gunn senior Ian Cramer won his first title at the Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships with a 5-1 victory over Max McCann of Monta Vista on Saturday night at Independence High in San Jose.
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
The 13th-ranked Menlo College women's basketball team had its run of three straight Cal Pac Conference tournament titles end in stunning fashion. The Oaks were upset by fourth-seeded UC Merced, 51-49, in the semifinals of the conference tournament at Cal Maritime in Vallejo on Sunday.
Sunday, 10:00 PM | No comments yetLili Thompson scored 14 points, Amber Orrange added 13 and five assists and Kaylee Johnson hauled in 11 rebounds, but the No. 19 Stanford women's basketball team dropped its regular-season finale at Oregon, 62-55, Sunday.
Sunday, 9:08 PM | No comments yetChasson Randle scored 17 points but was unable to get his final shot to fall and Stanford dropped a 73-70 decision to visiting Oregon in a Pac-12 Conference game Sunday, likely costing the Cardinal a first-round bye in the upcoming conference tournament.
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Cardinal corner
Kayla Bonstrom hit two home runs and Stanford generated 10 hits to power past Weber State, 12-4, in five innings Sunday at the Long Beach Louisville Slugger Classic.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Simone Manuel set two individual records in the 100 free and helped the 400 free relay team, which also included Ally Howe, Janet Hu and Lia Neal, set a meet record as Stanford finished second to California, 1,629 1/2-1,401, at the Pac-12 women's swimming and diving championships in Federal Way, Wash. on Saturday. Kristian Ipsen, meanwhile, won his third men's diving title in as many days.
Saturday, 11:16 PM | No comments yetCCS soccer
It has been 33 years since the Palo Alto girls have shared a Central Coast Section title in soccer. It has been 35 since the Vikings have claimed one. Clearly, the program is long overdue for one or the other.
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MPSF Championships
Darian Brooks set a Stanford indoor record in the triple jump to win the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation track and field championship title Saturday. Brooks' effort highlighted performances by Stanford's men, who finished sixth with 61 1/2 points.
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Cardinal corner
Kelsey Murray scored five goals and the No. 15 Stanford lacrosse team beat host No. 10 Ohio State, 12-10, in a nonconference match played indoors on Saturday.
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Three local wrestlers advanced to the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Championships on Frida at Independence High in San Jose and will compete for State Meet berths on Saturday. Titles will be decided starting at 7 p.m.
Saturday, 9:25 AM | No comments yetSacred Heart Prep's Corbin Koch, Connor Moses and Mason Randall combined for 37 points to lead the Gators to their first- ever Central Coast Section Open Division victory, 51-46 over Riordan at Santa Clara High School on Friday night.
Saturday, 8:00 AM | No comments yetPac-12 Swimming, Diving
Sarah Haase won the 100-yard breaststroke and the Stanford women's swimming and diving team had eight swimmers place sixth or higher Friday at the Pac-12 Championships in the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. Kristian Ipsen set a school record in winning the 3-meter diving title.
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Friday, February 27, 2015
Cardinal corner
Stanford won the women's distance medley relay at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation indoor track and field championships on Friday for its first such title since 2008.
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College baseball
Menlo School grad Mikey Diekroeger, in his first season at Stanford, had three hits, including a double, and drove in three runs to help the Cardinal open its nonconference baseball series with host Rice with a 5-3 win Friday in Houston, Texas.
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Most Valuable Player: Mo Abdulrasul (Fremont)
First Team
Kevin Mullin (Palo Alto); Jay Slaney (Homestead); Colin Spence (Homestead); Jake Burris (Fremont); Daniel Rosenbaum (Los Altos); Jase Wycliffe (Wilcox); Drew Krulevitch (Los Gatos);
Christian Mejia (Milpitas)
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On a night when the Gunn boys pulled out a big victory following a thrilling rally, Palo Alto could not do the same and exited the Central Coast Section Division I basketball playoffs. The Castilleja and Sacred Heart Prep girls, meanwhile, advanced in Division IV action.
Friday, 8:32 AM | No comments yetStanford men's hoops
Michael Humphrey matched his season-high of 14 points and grabbed a season-high 15 rebounds for his second straight double-double as the Stanford men's basketball team used a terrific second half to beat visiting Oregon State, 75-48, Thursday night in a Pac-12 Conference contest.
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Junior Alex Clay won the three-meter diving competition at the Pac-12 Championships Thursday to help keep the Stanford women's swimming and diving team in second place at the mid-point of the four-day meet. Kristian Ipsen won the men's 3-meter diving event, though his points will be added during next week's men's conference championships.
Friday, 2:35 AM | No comments yetThursday, February 26, 2015
The second-ranked Stanford women's water polo team bounced back from its first setback of the year with a pair of convincing wins over No. 20 Santa Clara, 17-4, and unranked Sonoma State, 16-3, on Thursday at the Avery Aquatic Center.
Thursday, 8:50 PM | No comments yetLili Thompson scored 13 points, leading a quintet of double-digit scorers, and No. 19 Stanford upset No. 7 Oregon State, 69-58, on its home court Thursday night. It was the Beavers' first home loss of the season and ended a 21-game home winning streak.
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Most Valuable Player: Brianna Deckman (Capuchino( Sr.
First Team
Greer Hoyem (Menlo-Atherton) Fr.; Brianna Reynolds (Aragon) Jr.; Claire Phillips (Burlingame) Sr.; Aubrie Businger (Mills) So.; Julia Gibbs (Mills) Jr.
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It took perhaps 30 minutes for Ian Cramer to recover from his loss in the 132-pound division finals at the 2014 Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships. It was a setback that provided the Gunn High standout with a personal challenge.
Thursday, 4:01 PM | No comments yetMost Valuable Player: Marquis Adkins (Mills) Sr.
First Team
Justin Gutang (Burlingame) Sr.; Chris Bene (Sequoia) Sr.; Ryan Cole (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Adam Cook (Hillsdale) Sr.; Brandon Matsuno (Mills) Sr.; Ziggy Lauese (Sequoia) Fr.
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Nine local soccer teams began the Central Coast Section playoffs this week, a number believed to be a record. Four schools -- Gunn, Palo Alto, Menlo-Atherton and Sacred Heart Prep -- had both a boys and girls team entered.
Thursday, 9:48 AM | No comments yetWednesday, February 25, 2015
Cardinal corner
Stanford's Maksim Korolev followed up his Pan American Cup cross country title by being named Athlete of the Week by USA Track and Field. In his first race for the U.S. national team, Korolev won the 10K (6.2-mile) race in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday in 28:21.
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Winners of five straight, the Stanford men's tennis team carries momentum into this weekend's Southern California road swing. The Cardinal (6-2) will need every bit of it, visiting two of the Pac-12's best teams in No. 1 USC and No. 21 UCLA.
Wednesday, 11:47 AM | No comments yetPrep roundup
The Gunn boys took to the basketball floor this season for the 22nd time on Tuesday night. Yet, there was something different for every member of the squad. The Titans' appearance was their first in the Central Coast Section playoffs since 2011, when most of the players were still in middle school.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Freshman first baseman Matt Winaker doubled home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Stanford baseball team a 6-5 victory over visiting, and previously undefeated, Nevada.
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The Menlo College men's wrestling team is sending seven wrestlers to the NAIA national championships in Topeka, Kan., which begin March 6 at the Kansas Expocentre.
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Cardinal corner
Stanford freshman Jordan Raney was named MPSF/Kap7 Newcomer of the Week in women's water polo when the conference announced its weekly honors on Tuesday afternoon.
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Most Valuable Player: Ari Wayne (Gunn)
Most Valuable Field: Matt Dunn (Mountain View)
Most Valuable Goalie: Anthony Zunino (Gunn)
Most Valuable Player: Sam Acker (Gunn)
Most Valuable Field: Mary Stone (Los Gatos)
Most Valuable Goalie: Romy Abourdham (Los Altos)
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Menlo College senior Jolise Limcaco was named the Cal Pac's Player of the Week in women's basketball on Monday. Her honor, however, was not based on what she did last week but what she meant to the Oaks during her career.
Tuesday, 9:29 AM | No comments yetMonday, February 23, 2015
Cardinal roundup
Following breakout performances in the Battle of the Bay against California on Wednesday and Sunday, Stanford guard Brittany McPhee earned her first Pac-12 Freshman of the Week accolade when the conference announced its weekly honors on Monday afternoon.
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The Sacred Heart Prep boys basketball team hopes to follow in the footsteps of its vaunted football squad and bring home a second Central Coast Section Open Division title in two weeks.
Monday, 10:09 AM | 2 commentsThe Palo Alto girls are closing in on setting a school mark for single-season basketball victories. The question is, can the Vikings accomplish that in the Central Coast Section and NorCal playoffs?
Monday, 10:03 AM | No comments yetSecond-ranked UCLA knocked the top-ranked and defending national champion Stanford women's water polo team from the ranks of the unbeaten Sunday with a 7-6 victory, in double overtime, in the championship final of the UC Irvine Invitational.
Monday, 12:12 AM | No comments yetSunday, February 22, 2015
Eduardo Sanchez singled home the winning run in the seventh as the Menlo College baseball team walked off with a 9-8 victory over visiting Oregon Tech in the nightcap of a nonconference doubleheader Sunday.
Sunday, 5:50 PM | No comments yetCardinal corner
Running for the first time in a United States national team singlet, Stanford's Maksim Korolev won the inaugural Pan American Cross Country Cup on Sunday in Barranquilla, Colombia.
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Freshman Brittany McPhee scored a career-high 24 points, but it went for naught as the No. 18 Stanford women's basketball team dropped a 63-53 decision to visiting California and was officially eliminated from title contention in the Pac-12 Conference.
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Division I
Wednesday's first round
No. 11 Carlmont (8-10-2) at No. 6 Homestead (14-5), 3 p.m.
No. 10 Evergreen Valley (9-7-2) at No. 7 Monta Vista (7-7-6), 3 p.m.
No. 12 Santa Clara (9-7-4) at No. 5 Bellarmine (12-4-4), 3 p.m.
No. 13 Santa Teresa (10-4-6) at No. 4 Palo Alto (13-3-3), 3 p.m.
No. 9 Sequoia (7-6-5) at No. 8 Alvarez (14-2-4), 6 p.m.
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Six-foot-nine freshman Michael Humphrey recorded season highs in points (14) and rebounds (11) and the Cardinal beat visiting California, 72-61, in a Pac-12 Conference men's basketball game Saturday.
Saturday, 8:29 PM | No comments yetCardinal corner
Maciek Romanowicz came all the way back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to beat T.J. Nishimura, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, and give the Cardinal a stunning 4-3 upset over the 14th-ranked Bears in a nonconference men's tennis match on Saturday.
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Friday's prep roundup
The Sacred Heart Prep boys have their seventh straight West Bay Athletic League soccer title. This one, however, is different than the previous six. This one is shared.
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Prep boys' basketball
Gunn's Chris Russell and David Lee-Heidenreich combined for 30 points to lead the Titans to a 59-29 victory over visiting Santa Clara on Friday night as the Titans clinched the SCVAL El Camino Division basketball title.
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MADIKERI: Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) State president Sunil Kumar Bajal on Thursday urged the State Government not to accord permission to the Sangh Parivar to take out "Shoba Yatra" and organise Datta Jayanti celebrations at Bababudangiri from December 2 to 4, to maintain communal amity in the State.
Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Bajal said the DYFI would take out a "Souharda Yatra", on November 23, from Chikmagalur town to Bababudangiri to lay emphasis on communal harmony. Over 2,500 youngsters would take part in the march, including 200 from Kodagu, Mr. Bajal said.
He charged the Sangh Parivar with violating the court orders by conducting Datta Jayanti every year at the Darga in Bababudangiri since 1997. It was conducted even during the S.M. Krishna regime, he said. The Dharam Singh Government then made amends by banning the celebrations.
The BJP was pressuring the Government over the issue and the parivar was trying to take advantage of it, Mr. Bajal alleged. He accused the BJP of fomenting communal feelings among the people in the State in the name of Datta Jayanti. Efforts were being made to tarnish the fair image of the State.
The communal riots in Mangalore and surroundings recently were cases in point, Mr. Bajal said.
The team from Kodagu would be seen off from Siddapur on November 22. CPI(M) leader Shivaram Reddy and DYFI leader S.Y. Gurushant would take part in the Souharda Yatra. Kodagu DYFI district president B.S. Ramanath, vice-president Sunil and secretary P.R. Bharath were present.


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The Bad Plus bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King have a well-earned reputation for pushing the limits on what is expected of a piano-bass-drums trio. The past 15 years have seen the genre-smashing band create a distinctive and original repertoire of inventive and exciting original music, along with iconoclastic covers of artists as divergent as Nirvana and Neil Young, Aphex Twin and Ornette Coleman. Earlier this year, the acclaimed trio took on one of the most influential works of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (Sony Music Masterworks).
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A genuinely leaderless trio, The Bad Plus is equal in every respect, from composition to performance to production. The interplay between these collaborators has marked the groups work from the jump, infusing it with carefully considered spontaneity, subtlety, style, and depth. An intense emotional twang permeates pieces like Kings Adopted Highway and the Iverson composition which gives Inevitable Western its title, evokes a spacious milieu redolent of Wim Wenders Paris, Texas and the American West of Richard Avedon, dusty and open, weathered but free. Rich with mystery, Inevitable Western is The Bad Plus at their best, affirming them as one of the most audacious and imaginative musical collectives of this or any other era.
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04 New York, NY -- Village Vanguard
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24 Boston, MA -- Berklee Performance Center*
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12 Dublin, IRL National Concert Hall*
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14 Munich, DEU - Unterfahrt*
15 Berlin, DEU - A-Trane*
16 Wroclaw, POL - Impart*
17 Amsterdam, NLD Bimhuis*
18 Prague, CZE - Palac Akropolis*
28 New York, NY Blue Note
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I wanted to like this book but I really couldn't get behind the narration. Norma Lana was just unexciting and flat as a narrator, and the accents were so bad they were distracting. I kept trying to listen to this book but I would keep getting bored and turning it off within a few minutes. I can't really say whether the writing wasn't keeping me interested or the narration was just so bad that it turned me away from the book, but either way, I don't recommend spending the credits on this book.
"Excellent read AND excellent narrattion"
I already own the Kindle version of Untamed but when I saw that it had been released as an audiobook and read by Kaleo Griffith, I had to buy it again. If you like romantic suspense, this is an excellent, excellent read. I am a huge (pretty much exclusive) fan of romantic suspense and have read an enormous amount of books in this genre (too much romance is boring for me, but suspense only doesn't really pull me in) and I have to say, Pamela Clare is by far the best I've found so far.
Kaleo Griffith is a truly talented performer. As a fluent French speaker with Scottish relatives, I was interested to see how he handled both the Scottish and French accents in this book, since poor accents really ruin the book for me. I must say, he blew me away. While it's true that many of the words were said incorrectly, his accents were so good that half the time I didn't even notice until much later, if at all. I was able to tell who was talking by the tone and accent he was using, instead of having to wait to be told. Excellent job.
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As any longtime lover of audiobooks will tell you, a bad narrator can ruin a good book, and a great narrator can make any book seem fantastic. Happy to report, Mr. Griffith is one of the best I've ever encountered. (And I have listened to a LOT of audiobooks in my day.)
I must admit, I was surprised at first when he reads the women's lines in a female voice. (The falsetto made me giggle a little, especially when he does southern accents) but I got used to it in, oh, approximately five minutes, and after that, found myself wondering why all romance audiobooks don't have a male reader! It really adds something to the story.
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