

Witches on the Road Tonight
Author: Sheri Holman
Narrator: Dick Hill, Christina Traister
Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/01/2011
Categories: Fiction
Author: Sheri Holman
Narrator: Dick Hill, Christina Traister
Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/01/2011
Categories: Fiction
Sheri Holman is the author of A Stolen Tongue; Th e Dress Lodger, a New York Times Notable Book; and Th e Mammoth Cheese, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and a San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.
What a fantastic find! While I'm categorizing it as Horror for purposes of my Horror Readathon, this book is a lot of things: Historical fiction, fairy tale, family saga, etc. And while a book that jumps through time and plotline as much as this one does is risky, it really paid off. The throughline......more
Finally, the first drop-my-jaw-in-awe book of 2011. Some writers are a "brand" which is to say you know exactly what you're going to get when you pick up one of their books. So not so with Holman; you don't even know what time frame you might be inhabiting: the 15th century of "A Stolen Tongue," the......more
Witches on the Road Tonight is much like the monster in the Frankenstein film referenced throughout the book. It is an amalgam of different parts stitched together in such a way that the product is displeasing to those who encounter it. The portion of the story set in 1940s Appalachia was well-writ......more
This book started off wonderfully, with an intriguing setting full of menace (a sophisticated couple -- a writer and a photographer traveling for the WPA in 1940 -- get themselves stranded in a remote Appalachian cabin, with a woman who just might be a witch). Holman's prose is lush, and she creates......more
This was one of the more weird and anti-climatic books I've ever read. It left me still wondering what happened to a certain character in the end, maybe even more than one character. It was actually very well written with great thoughts about human nature. The parts I didn't like were about ALL the......more