Saving Savvy: Smart and Easy Ways to Cut Your Spending, written & narrated by Kelly Hancock

Saving Savvy: Smart and Easy Ways to Cut Your Spending
Author: Kelly Hancock
Narrator: Kelly Hancock
Oasis Audio
5 hours 34 mins

Saving Saving by Kelly Hancock

Kelly Hancock, Narrator and Author 

Kelly Hancock, author and narrator about her wildly popular couponing blog,  faithfulprovisions.com is an extremely multi-talented woman that  "Can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan" as the old song goes. Kelly does an excellent job keeping her blog updated, it is a useful site for thousands of women who want to save money on their grocery bills. She is lovely to look at and has a lovely voice to match, making the narration of her own book a very pleasant listening experience. Her voice is well modulated, with clear enunciation, and an outstanding pacing. It's rare that an author can do a good narration of their own work but like everything it seems that Kelly does, narration is one more item to add to her pool of talents. I usually groan when I see the author has done their own narration but Kelly Hancock did not disappoint. Kelly Hancock is quality in every way.


In the down economy we have been experiencing for a number of years now, Kelly Hancock has
beaten the system by couponing and stacking coupons. She certainly has it down to a science and
generously shared with everyone how she managed to reduce her grocery bills to fifty dollars a week. I'm not sure if this is just food or if she is including the other necessities like soap, tissue, cleaners and the rest of the long list that also eats into everyone's budget. She says she does not include baby items in her food budget. Kelly has a husband and two children, so managing fifty dollars a week to feed a family of four sounds pretty impossible, but she manages it and still is able to give to food banks and others in need.

I enjoyed her tips on cleaning out the freezer, how to store frozen food and how to flash freeze food. I personally, as she mentions of many others, don't like eating frozen meat as it always taste funny. Kelly, points out that it's best to use plastic bags that say, for frozen foods. I also liked her tip on putting as much as possible into plastic bags so you can store more food. She gives sensible information that should be helpful to anyone, like downloading store coupons to your Iphone and Loyalty card, with the pros and cons of doing this. Preparing your meal plans in advance, how to make space for stocking basic's when they come on sale.

It is a full time job, all this saving money, so it might not work to the same degree for a mother that is working full time, yet, when you follow her lead you will be able to save money and have more time for yourself. I highly recommend Saving Savy for not just how to finesse coupons but for the many other helpful tips to give you a viable plan for shopping, cooking, and arranging your kitchen for optimal performance. Who doesn't need to save money on groceries, have more time for family and even time to sit back and relax.

Spiggot by Craig Saunders, Narrator Wayne Farrell

Spiggot: A Depraved Comedy
Author: Craig Saunders
Narrator: Wayne Farrell
Grand Mal Press 
8 hours 11 minutes

Author, Craig Saunders

Spiggot by Craig Saunders

If you have followed my reviews, you can obviously tell I'm a fan of Wayne Farrell, and his narration of Spiggot is just a jaw dropper. Mr. Farrell not only has a very clear voice that is melodic and so very expressive. He does not read the book, he is the book. His range of character voices is expansive and creative and will delight even the hardest to please listener.

Narrator, Wayne Farrell

His own enjoyment of the story comes through in the way he is able to make the least to the greatest character jump off the pages and into your mind. Unlike, many narrators he is able to carry his enthusiasm into the text portions of the book. This creates a lovely flow so you do not lose any connection between the characters and the background that the author has created.
It even may be that he gives more to the story than the author could have envisioned or hoped for. I must also mention that he does excellent foreign accents making it even more enjoyable when an Irishman sounds like an Irishman, and a cockney sounds like a cockney. An all around excellent narrator that is versatile and a pleasure to listen to. I also loved the added sound effects. Farrell really knows how to create a mood and keep your attention at peak levels.




Spiggot, written by Craig Saunders, is witty and laugh out loud funny. I really enjoyed the concept of the body swapping. Police partners Spiggot and Trout, are assigned a big case to catch the person who has been stealing ancient artifacts, predominately religious and extremely rare. Trout, seems somewhat repressed and tries to ignore the blatant sexism, and so  politically incorrect comments spewing frequently and often unexpectedly from Spiggot. Overriding convention or even decency the team manages to track down their suspect and plot how they will capture her. With only the vaguest idea of what she looks like, they piece together the few facts they have and with no back up and technology tools not working they try to take her down. Spiggot, has her in hand but the villainous thief is stronger and smarter and gets away. Spiggot, is left with the broken artifact that he would not release, even though she broke his hand. Beaten into unconsciousness Spiggot, goes into a coma. Yet, Spiggot, awakens in another hospital and in
another persons body while his own body lies in a coma. Most frightening of all is he's in the body
of a mass murderer, and it's a hospital for the insane. He escapes and the only safe place he decides he can go is to Trout's apartment. Trout has already heard on the news that the insane ax killer has escaped but doesn't expect to find him in her apartment. Spiggot, has a comical and somewhat painful time trying to convince her that he is not the ax murderer but himself, Spiggot. Once she is persuaded, they work out how the body transfer happened and why the  thief steals artifacts. If you like off the wall humor you will like this book, if you are offended by ism's then you probably won't. I found it very funny except the bathroom humor was a bit school boyish. Overall, I think it was much funnier and enjoyable because of the outstanding and stellar narration by Wayne Farrell and the sound effects were the icing on the cake.