Posted by Anne M on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016
Checking out, downloading, and listening to an audiobook on your device from the Iowa City Public Library is easy as pie.
Until it isn’t.
Every once in a while I encounter skips as if I’m listening to a scratched CD.
Or I receive the error message “Bad Audiobook Part: This audiobook part cannot be played because of a bad file.”
Or the audiobook won’t open at all.
Don’t panic. It is easy to fix these problems. Something probably happened in the downloading process and you need to delete the bad file(s) and redownload.
This pretty much fixes the problem. Except if you are out running and have to wait until you get home to redownload it. For that, I sympathize and apologize.
Cushla Lavery wants to fix things. She wants to help her brother manage the family's pub. She wants to help her mother stop drinking. As a primary school teacher, she wants to help a socially struggling student find acceptance. She wants a lot of things and works for them. But this is Northern Ireland in the 1970's and everything is an uphill battle. And then Michael Agnew walks into the pub. He is all the wrong things: married, Protestant, older and from a different social class. He offers Cushla an escape from the daily toils and community violence. Will this last? This is a beautifully written novel. Heartbreaking, of course, and full of feeling. The audiobooks is a gem. -Anne M