Libby Chen

Reviews

• The Thursday Murder Club reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Every mother in the country has this on hold at all times. Waited seven weeks. It's nice! That is the review.

  The Thursday Murder Club

• The Book Thief reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Sixteen hours and the narrator has a lovely voice for it, very warm, but I ran it at 1.6 and I think that was too fast for what it's doing. Seven, with the caveat that I probably shortchanged it. Queue was only 9!

  The Book Thief

• Gone Girl reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Borrowed it on a Friday, done by Sunday, and then spent the whole of Monday arguing with a colleague about whether you're supposed to like anyone in it. Seven. Great queue turnover on this one, three days.

  Gone Girl

• Pachinko reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Worth all 47 weeks.

  Pachinko

• Atomic Habits reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Borrowed it three times. Bought it in the end.

  Atomic Habits

• The Silent Patient reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  4/ 104 out of 10

  I already knew the twist.

  The Silent Patient

• Little Fires Everywhere reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Fine on a train, fine at 1.5x, gone from my head by the following Tuesday. I did like the mothers. Seven.

  Little Fires Everywhere

• A Promised Land reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Twenty-nine hours. TWENTY-NINE. I got to hour eleven, the loan ran out, and for the first time in my life I looked at the rejoin button and just closed the app. Five, and that five is mostly for the early chapters about his mum.

  A Promised Land

• Persepolis reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Entirely about the narrator.

  Persepolis

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• Born a Crime reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  He does the voices!

  Born a Crime

• Beloved reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Wrong format, entirely my fault. I needed to go back a page and you can't go back a page in audio, you can only scrub about and lose your place. Six for the listen.

  Beloved

• Normal People reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Read the whole thing in a laundrette and then again on the bus home. No queue at all, which felt wrong for how much everyone talks about it.

  Normal People

• The Vanishing Half reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Three days, which for me is unheard of, and two of those were a weekend. Hold queue of 64 and it moved much faster than the app estimated, so I had it and two others at once again. Rushed it and didn't mind.

  The Vanishing Half

• Never Let Me Go reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Quiet, slow, and then it isn't. I had four days left on the loan and used one of them.

  Never Let Me Go

• Americanah reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The narrator does the Lagos sections and the Princeton sections in completely different registers and it is the best thing about the audio. Eighteen hours, no renewal needed, finished with four days spare, which never happens.

  Americanah

• Educated reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Five months in the queue.

  Educated

• Quiet reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Nine weeks in a queue for a book about not wanting to be in a room full of people. The open plan office chapter made me forward the whole thing to my manager, who has still not replied.

  Quiet

• Becoming reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  She reads it herself and that's the whole reason to do it in audio. Nineteen hours, I ran it at 1.25 and dropped back to normal for the chapters about her dad. Queue was 88 when I joined. Worth every week of it!

  Becoming

• Kindred reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Stayed up. Worth it.

  Kindred

• To Kill a Mockingbird reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Fourteen copies available, no queue, no waiting, nobody wants it because everyone had to do it at school. Their loss! I'd never actually finished it before.

  To Kill a Mockingbird