{"id":111,"date":"2008-05-12T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/review-of-audiobook-enna-burning-by-shannon-hale\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T02:00:49","slug":"review-of-audiobook-enna-burning-by-shannon-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Review of Audiobook Enna Burning, by Shannon Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image159\" height=\"192\" alt=\"enna_burning_audio.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/enna_burning_audio.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Enna Burning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Shannon Hale<\/p>\n<p>Read by Cynthia Bishop and the Full Cast Family<\/p>\n<p>Full Cast Audio, 2007.\u00a0 8 CDs.\u00a0 8 hours, 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Text copyright 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/\">http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullcastaudio.com\/\">http:\/\/www.fullcastaudio.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My readers probably know that Shannon Hale is one of my favorite living authors.\u00a0 Her books always show up on my stand-outs lists, usually at the top or near the top.<\/p>\n<p>Full Cast Audio\u2019s fabulous production of the second of the Bayern books, <em>Enna Burning, <\/em>allowed me to enjoy the book in a whole new way.\u00a0 They cast the book with fresh voices for each character.\u00a0 You feel you\u2019re really hearing Enna\u2019s thoughts and her interactions with her friends.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enna Burning <\/em>is a beautiful book with a dark edge to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a story of wartime, but also of magic.\u00a0 Of trying to do what\u2019s right.\u00a0 Of trying to use power wisely.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a story of an enduring friendship between Enna and Isi, the heroine of the earlier book, <em>The Goose Girl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This audiobook does have some difficult themes.\u00a0 But it would make a wonderful family listening experience for older kids.\u00a0 For adults and teens looking for an absorbing story beautifully performed, I highly recommend this production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/193418019X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This review is on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/enna_burning_audio.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/enna_burning_audio.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enna Burning by Shannon Hale Read by Cynthia Bishop and the Full Cast Family Full Cast Audio, 2007.\u00a0 8 CDs.\u00a0 8 hours, 30 minutes. Text copyright 2004. http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/ http:\/\/www.fullcastaudio.com\/ My readers probably know that Shannon Hale is one of my favorite living authors.\u00a0 Her books always show up on my stand-outs lists, usually at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-fantasy","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}