3 readings
Jenna Lamia
We hold 3 readings in this voice, on 3,295 ratings of the narration. Every one of them is rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands. What follows is a record of recordings and not a verdict on a narrator. The stamp belongs to the book, the standing belongs to the reading, and neither of them belongs to Jenna Lamia.
Earmark judges books and recordings, never narrators. A verdict says which format deserves your one and only first encounter with a book, so it belongs to the book; where a reading stands is a claim about one recording, measured against every other book on our shelf, and it belongs to that recording. Neither of those is a claim about a working life, so there is no score here for Jenna Lamia and there is not going to be one. We also say nothing at all about a reading fewer than 250 people have rated. That bar is published on House Rules, and it is the same bar whether we would be praising a recording or criticising it.
Kathryn Stockett · with January LaVoy
The reading we judged the book on · 590 ratings · Two voices
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 15%In the top 15% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.94Audible’s performance score, on 590 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.86Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 0.5%3 of 591 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
This reading of The Calamity Club holds a place in our Hall of Fame, and the figures that earned it are on that page.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Kathryn Stockett · with Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
The reading we judged the book on · 515 ratings · Read by 4 voices
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 25%In the top 25% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.94Audible’s performance score, on 515 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.90Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 0.2%1 of 515 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
This reading of The Help holds a place in our Hall of Fame, and the figures that earned it are on that page.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Sue Monk Kidd
The reading we judged the book on · 2,190 ratings
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 17%In the top 17% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.73Audible’s performance score, on 2,190 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.55Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.0%22 of 2,195 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.