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Still Life With Elephant Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Judy Reene Singer (Author), Karen White (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
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Neelie Sterling never did listen well to the conversation around her. Always preoccupied with an inner monologue, she sometimes missed things. She was happy when Matt, her veterinarian husband, told her he was getting a collie; she liked dogs. But he had said "colleague" - someone to help with his busy practice. The problems start when the pretty blond "collie" calls Neelie to say that she is pregnant with Matt's child. Sent into a tailspin, Neelie throws herself into her horse-training business, until she discovers that Matt is part of a group planning to leave for Zimbabwe to rescue a badly injured elephant. Thinking she can win Matt's heart again, Neelie manages to get included.

The trip is dangerous, exhilarating, and revealing. Neelie learns about herself as a wife and a woman. Back at home, she discovers secrets everywhere: with her parents, with Matt, even in training an elephant. Fighting to keep her life from unraveling as she struggles to gain the elephant's trust, she ultimately learns that healing can be mutual.

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  1. Listening Length
    10 hours and 9 minutes
  2. Author
    Judy Reene Singer
  3. Narrator
    Karen White
  4. Audible release date
    July 5, 2007
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  7. ASIN
    B000TK5BN2
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 10 hours and 9 minutes
Author Judy Reene Singer
Narrator Karen White
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date July 05, 2007
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B000TK5BN2
Best Sellers Rank #498,921 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#297 in Horse Showing & Training (Books)
#15,188 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#135,818 in Women's Literature & Fiction

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Meehlticket
5.0 out of 5 stars Should but I can't put this book down...
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2016
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I love this book. I am an older lady that is gradually loosing my hearing... so the words our heroine hears... makes sense to me. I too go through life nodding my head, waiting a bit before I can work out what someone might have said. It also gets me into all sorts of trouble... Her explanation of an animal's communication, all without saying a word, makes sense, based on my own experience with cats, dogs, horses, ducks, turkeys, llamas, etc. Her emotional upheaval going through the shock of betrayal, the agony of indecision, all are written with such feeling and clarity. I am suppose to be finishing a newsletter for publication, instead I'm reading this wonderfully enjoyable book.
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Mr. August
4.0 out of 5 stars Mutual healing but unrealistic
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2007
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I enjoyed this book and found it funny and sometimes provocative. The main character, Neelie, has great success with rescuing and healing animals. In fact, she has difficulty hearing what humans are literally saying to her. Neelie's life changing trauma begins really in her childhood with her horse Homer and she finally does confront the pain it has caused. As an adult, a social worker and animal trainer, she finds out via her husband's lover that the lover (a vet) is going to have his baby. The husband is also a vet and the reader easily regards him as dolt when it comes to business and fidelity.
Neelie understandably is distraught and Singer is superb describing the myriad of changes and feelings she undergoes during this heartbreaking marital breakup. She loses her husband, her home and her self-esteem. She finds herself in healing elephants, baby elphants. The hero of the story is a very wealthy, well known businessman who also establishes sanctuaries in the US and Africs. He is perfect and loves her. He allows her to take her time and find herself. He has the money, the looks and the sensitivity and he asks her to marry him. Her response is unrealistic, Singer made her into a very lucky woman at the end of her angst, but I really believ1e any woman would have grabbed this Prince Charming in Paris or Kenya!
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Alison D D
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun read....
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2015
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This book was a lot of fun, sometime laugh out loud, mainly at the main characters expense as she had some issues , one being when stressed or distracted she could not hear the correct words people were saying and was constantly trying to decipher what was being said. It also had to do with her love of horses, as a trainer and rider, her new passion for rescued elephants, and her different and complicated relationships.
I saw there was a continuation to the story, An Inconvenient Elephant, which I will probably read as well.
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GPK
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2017
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I found this book to be interesting to learn a little about elephants and horses. Not being ever really curious about either before I was intrigued by that aspect of this book. However I did find the main character, Neelie, to be a very annoying character. I enjoy a book much more when I care for the person the book revolves around. I realize her character flaws were a big part of the book but it seemed unbelievable to me that she was able to attain her professional careers with such a weak and troubled personality. Her very severe hearing disability never really was addressed satisfactorily.
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Red to Gray
4.0 out of 5 stars It keeps you guessing throughout the book
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016
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I liked this book because it was an easy read. I also stayed on edge wondering about where she would forgive her husband or not. There were some funny aspects to the story which I laughed out loud. Seldom do I laugh out loud. I did want to see what Tom liked about the main character. I was puzzled at that. What intrigued him to like her so much? The reader had to make up their own reasons. I reckoned it was her interest in elephants. I thought the story line was different for books I had read. The financial situation can happen like it did in this story because I have actually seen this happen in real life to a friend of mine. I like books that keep me guessing and this one did that.
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Mary J
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting, heartbreaking, empowering page turner!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2016
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An amazing book full of tragedy, love, betrayal, passion, survival, humor and empowerment. This book had me riveted with intertwined relationships, betrayal and justice, and a beautifully written story of our love of precious animals, gaining their trust and giving them lives they deserve. A unique plot that descriptively takes the reader on a trip through Africa on an amazing elephant rescue and the bonds that form as a result of compassion.
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mel Sprink
5.0 out of 5 stars A story wrapped in the rescue and plight of elephants and horses
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2016
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There are already plenty of good reviews for this book. I like the interaction of the heroine and other characters with the elephants and horses. It was educational in regards to the rescue of elephants and their plights
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Gail Pattison
4.0 out of 5 stars An over-all good read.
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016
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This book really took me by surprise. I was not prepared to like it as much as I did and I ended up posting it on face book for my friends and family.
The author handled the animal scenes with much more expertise than I expected. I felt it was well researched. The only part that I couldn't get into was the inability of the character to stand up to her husband and fight. I think the bipolar excuse at the end was a cop-out. There are great women lawyers out there...
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