Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker audiobook runs 9.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Hollis McCarthy (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Hollis McCarthy
Hollis McCarthy narrates 48 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 446 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
2,067 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker is an audiobook by Lauren Kessler: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Hollis McCarthy, released November 24, 2015, on the Memoirs shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Hollis McCarthy
- Released
- November 24, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs
- ISBN
- 9781494583545
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How long is the Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker audiobook?
Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker?
Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker is narrated by Hollis McCarthy.