Tuesday, September 22, 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: Three mysteries and a novel

This week we are traveling around the world, from Britain to Japan and New Jersey to the Oregon coast as we hear three mysteries and a sweet novel.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Incivility

Recently, I was at an afternoon movie following a doctor’s appointment. I wanted to pleasantly kill some time before I put my chauffer’s cap...

AUDIOBOOKS: Halloween audiobooks

Halloween is just around the corner, so set the mood with these four audiobooks, including one for the kiddies.

Amplifications: Water, a diminishing resource

According to Water.org, one in nine people lack access to fresh water. Think about that. There are approximately 7.7 billion people on the planet.

AUDIOBOOKS: Three novels and a collection of essays

Three novels and a collection of essays take us back in time.

AUDIOBOOKS: Novels adapted into films

This month we are featuring novels that were adapted into films, two that are classics and two somewhat more recent releases, as well as one sequel.

Amplifications:  While you were sleeping…

In September the New York Times revealed there are even more kids in concentration camps than we knew and they are being relocated in the middle of the night to facilities that warehouse them.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Speak out about Kavanaugh

Do we really want someone on the top court in the country who has an anger problem, lies under oath and is, in all likelihood, a serial sex offender?

AMPLIFICATIONS: World hunger

Giving up something small and sending that $10 or $20 to a charity is easier to do than you think and can become a habit.

AUDIOBOOKS: Comedic audiobooks

Summer is over, school has started, the days are growing shorter — it’s time for a laugh.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Pain

Clearly we have a problem with addiction in this country, but we also have a problem with pain management. Living in constant pain can destroy a person.

AUDIOBOOKS: Memoirs

This week we sample four new memoirs, the current rage in publishing.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Loss

One of my regrets is that I did not just bypass the infertility treatments and go straight for adoption, because I can’t imagine that I could feel any closer to a birth child than I feel to my daughter.

AUDIOBOOKS: Extraordinary experiences of ordinary people

Here are four audiobooks written by ordinary people who have lived through extraordinary experiences.

AMPLIFICATIONS: A walk in the woods

I kept expecting the toothless guy from “Deliverance” to jump out from behind a tree. Or that we would soon meet Creepy, the eighth dwarf and no one would ever know our fate.

AUDIOBOOKS: Traveling the globe

We travel the globe this week with tales from Canada, New York City, Somalia and the old West.
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