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Ashley James Audiobooks

Bimbo: a self-narrated memoir that argues with the label it borrows

1 audiobook reviewed
★ 4.3/5 average
84 listener ratings

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Who is Ashley James?

Few memoirists pick a title designed to be thrown back at them. Bimbo takes a word normally used as a dismissal and puts it on the cover, which is already a position rather than a description, and it sets the terms of everything that follows.

The recording is read by the author, and our catalogue files it across memoir, personal development and the wider social conversation. Those are the three shelves a first-person account tends to straddle when it is arguing with a stereotype as much as recounting a life.

Ashley James in audiobooks

At just under nine hours, Bimbo is a full-length listen, and its rating has held steady across a solid body of listener reviews rather than a scattering of early ones.

Author-read memoir carries a particular pleasure: the pauses and the emphases are the ones the writer intended, not an interpretation of them. This is the place to start, and the listing follows.