Ruth Hall

i love this reader, "speakos" and all!

(4.5 stars)

MommaG

this is the second book I've 'read' presented by Deborah Knight. i love her presentation. She has a lot of "speakos" (oral version of 'typos'). but her voice, meter, And enthusiasm more than compensate. Plus, And loved us enough to read to us and i GREATLY appreciate that! !! the book itself is. ... incredible. as a Christian, it broke my heart many times, but it also challenged me to love my family as much as I would a stranger. (which is hard, sometimes, ijs).

Hyacinth is a common flower, it's not hard to pronounce

(2.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

The story holds up for being 150+ years old, but the narration is terrible. The constant mispronunciations (especially of the brother's name) are annoying at the best of times and infuriating at the worst. She also fails to edit out her own mistakes, often hearing random noises in the background of her recording, or having her stumble over a line and failing to remove it. It's free, so you can only expect so much, but still...

Superb story, great narration!

(5 stars)

benefitsingers

This is a really great story based on the life of the authoress. I cannot believe the things this woman endured from her family. She certainly has a detestable mother in law. You might want to go to Wikipedia and read up on Fanny Fern which is very interesting. The narrator was beyond fantastic this is the first recording of hers I have listened to and I hope she continues to narrate for Librivox. High recommend this story.

(4 stars)

foilkitty

Some of the characters in this novel are infuriating to the point that it was difficult to continue reading at times. The second half of the story makes up for the frustrations of the first half in some respects, only for new ones to arise.

good, with some flaws

(3 stars)

Rj

well read over all, with an engaging voice and distinct character readings. The only problem is that the reader does not know how to pronounce a number of more antiquated terms, which is a bit distracting at times.

(5 stars)

Christine Elizabeth Mistretta

wery nicely done, and wonderful to have one reader all the way through, though I spent forever looking around me for the chiming sound, before I realized it was in the recording.

(4.5 stars)

Barbara Grieb

This book needs a sequel to follow Ruth'a life to the end! Her story is so complex, it ends very abruptly!

Extremely good book

(5 stars)

Georgiana

Just goes to show, when life throws you lemons.... make lemonade! All praises to the reader as well!