New Review:
STEALING HOMESweet Magnolias, Book 1
by Sherryl Woods | Read by Stina Nielsen
Fiction • 11.5 hrs, • Unabridged • © 2020
Small-town goings-on in Serenity, South Carolina, take on new life with narrator Stina Nielsen. She introduces listeners to Maddie Townsend, whose husband, Bill, has left her for his 24-year-old pregnant girlfriend. Nielsen gives Maddie a wistful, sincere voice that will elicit approval of her determination to start fresh. As Maddie starts a business with her two best friends, the “Sweet Magnolias,” she deals with her son’s baseball tribulations and her attraction to his coach. Nielsen uses a Southern twang for some of the secondary characters and creates age-appropriate voices for Maddie’s three kids. Overall, her narration captures the joys and constraints of small-town life. Woods’s story of regret and growth unfolds in splendid measure, courtesy of Nielsen’s warmhearted reading. C.A. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2020]
Trade Ed. • Dreamscape • 2020
DD ISBN 9781662009648 $34.99
Library Ed. • Dreamscape • 2020
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/187476/stealing-home-by-sherryl-woods-read-by-stina-nielsen/
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Stina made her Broadway debut in THE JUDAS KISS with Liam Neeson, a show they also performed in London’s West End. Her other Broadway credits include WAITING IN THE WINGS with Lauren Bacall; WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? with Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin; and THE LITTLE FOXES with Stockard Channing.
Stina’s regional theatre credits include Tennessee Williams’ 'The Notebook of Trigorin' with Lynn Redgrave at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; 'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' at Capital Repertory Theatre; '1933' at the Denver Center Theatre Company; Pericles at the Mint Theatre in New York City; and 'A Month in the Country', 'The Odyssey', 'Dirty Work', and 'Babes in Boyland' at Arena Stage in Washington DC.
Her TV credits include "Law & Order–SVU", "Another World", "The City", and "All My Children". She also works with DeValk Associates interactive diversity training.
She has narrated over 250 audiobooks, is a multiple Audie Award finalist, has earned multiple Earphones Awards, and was named one of the “Best Voices of 2011” by AudioFile magazine. A short film she narrated for Metabook Films, YOURS SINCERELY, LOIS WEBER was an Official Selection for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and the Huesca Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the LA Shorts International Film Festival.