3 readings
Julia Whelan
We hold 3 readings in this voice, on 7,319 ratings of the narration. 2 of the 3 are rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands; the rest are named and not scored. 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 Julia Whelan.
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 Julia Whelan 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.
Kristin Hannah
The reading we judged the book on · 3,132 ratings
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 22%In the top 22% 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
- 4.81Audible’s performance score, on 3,132 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.69Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 0.6%18 of 3,132 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Kristin Hannah
The reading we judged the book on · 4,183 ratings
- The reading sits in the middle of our shelf
- 40%In the middle 40% 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
- 4.81Audible’s performance score, on 4,183 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.75Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.1%46 of 4,183 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
This reading of The Women holds a place in our Hall of Fame, and the figures that earned it are on that page.
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided with this reading in front of us.
L.M. Montgomery
An alternative reading we hold · 4 ratings
- Rated by too few people to place
- 44 ratings of the narration, short of our published bar of 250. So we name the reading and print no figures for it.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided on a different recording, not on Julia Whelan’s.