Friday, September 25, 2026

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Rochelle O'Gorman

Rochelle Marie O'Gorman has been a professional writer for her entire ​adult life. After learning, very quickly, that news reporting was not for her, she began work as a film critic. O'Gorman has also reviewed television, theater, and print books, as well as writing general feature stories, before turning to audiobooks full time. The first syndicated audiobook reviewer in the United States, her reviews can be read in various newspapers around the country and she was awarded an Audie by the Audio Publishers Association for her work in spreading the word about audiobooks. She currently works reviewing audiobooks and writing essays. O'Gorman lives in the hayloft of an old barn with her lovely teenage daughter and a foul tempered parrot.

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AUDIOBOOKS: Love

Love is the basis of this week’s selection of audiobooks: the love shared between friends, family members, couples and even the burgeoning love of adolescents.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Fear of change

And that’s the rub, isn’t it? We fear that which can go wrong. We may desire change, but the journey is just too bumpy for some of us to handle.

AUDIOBOOKS: Humor to beat the winter blues

Since everyone needs a chuckle once in a while, we’ve put together four humorous books to help you laugh away the winter blues.

AMPLIFICATIONS: The Academy Awards

I can’t be objective, not when it comes to movies. Years ago I would sometimes watch four movies a day when I worked as a film critic.

AUDIOBOOKS: Darker works

This week we hear many takes on the End of Days, become lost in a darkly evocative gothic horror/mystery, cross the country with the self-proclaimed King of Filth, and enjoy a well-crafted detective fiction

AMPLIFICATIONS: A dating primer

I have met some very nice men, though I have had just as many dates that sent me running home, bemoaning the fact that I’d bothered to put on mascara or wishing I could crawl out of the bathroom window in a coffee shop.

Amplifications: Q&A with Dining for Women’s Leslye Heilig

The organization formed in 2002 when retired nurse Marsha Wallace, a mother of four from Greenville, North Carolina, read an article about friends who met for potluck dinners and donated the money that would have been spent on restaurant meals.

AUDIOBOOKS: Plenty to occupy ears on shorter nights

One classic novel, an addictive biography, an elegantly written mystery, and a novel about impassioned choices give us plenty to occupy our ears as the nights grow finally begin to grow shorter.

AUDIOBOOKS: A great week for audio

This is a great week for audio, as we have an inventive, charming novel; a heartfelt memoir; a well-researched historical fiction; and a taut thriller.

Amplifications: To sleep, perchance to dream — or not

Schools teach our kids to stay off of drugs, avoid unwanted pregnancies, and to write a term paper, but shouldn’t they also be taught about proper sleep habits?

Amplifications: A picture is worth a thousand words

Anyone with a modicum of education can draw a straight line from the white hoods of the KKK to the angry red of a MAGA cap.

AUDIOBOOKS: Travel, humor and more

Travel, humor, a legal thriller and the lives of ex-pats are on the docket this week.

AUDIOBOOKS: Four kinds of love

Joyous, tortured, familial, and romantic love is at the heart of these four audiobooks.

Amplifications: The shutdown

The Coast Guard, the agency we rely on during the darkest days of disaster, is about to be shuttered for the sake of a wall and a temper tantrum. Ready to move to Canada yet?

AMPLIFICATIONS: Behaving properly

I have less patience with potty-mouthed politicians and celebrities cursing during prime time.

AUDIOBOOKS: Traveling across the globe and beyond

This week we travel to Africa, France, the coast of Massachusetts and Mars.
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