#audibooks

[arctic-hands]

Good news! I finally got the complete works of William Shakespeare audiobook to divide into chapters instead of one ninety-eight hour behemoth (thank you Libation!)

Bad news! The chapters won't go in order on my little mp3 player

#audibooks #sandisk clip jam

[t-i-n-k-e-r-t-y-t-o-n-k]

Can’t recommend enough looking up PG Wodehouse librevox audiobook recordings…. Found out they are on podcasts as a format too

Currently listening to Love In The Time of Chickens 🐓 💞

Apple podcast link for it ^^^

#pg wodehouse #love in the time of chickens #stanley featherstonehaugh ukridge #podcasts #audibooks #Jeremy garnet

[vashti-lives]

The new Martha Wells book-- Witch King-- is fucking delightful if you like slightly complex fantasy that doesn't hold your hand. This is a book that never ever commits the sin of explaining stuff to a character that should already know about it for the sake of the audience. Exposition only happens in ways that are natural and logical, which sometimes means stuff just isn't explained.

It's not as obviously accessible as The Murderbot Dairies is-- it's plot is a little more opaque, there's more moving pieces, it's less directly comedic-- but man I like it and Kai is in someways a similar protagonist to Murderbot. Powerful but vulnerable and often just a little out of his element. Lonely in the face of a lot of people who are afraid of him.

Its very much a found family story. Like, literally. The book goes back and forth between the past and the present. The parts of the narrative that are set in the past are about Kai meeting the people who become his family, and the parts of the narrative set in the present are about him going to find members of that family that have gone missing. Family is a theme that's always there.

In spite of the swap in narratives there was never a moment where I was listening to one half of these stories wishing I could get back to the other one-- they were woven together very well and I found them equally compelling.

Anyway I am very certain there are people who saw there was a new Martha Wells book, then saw it wasn't Murderbot and decided to peace out. Some people probably won't but I think it's worth trying. Tor released enough excerpts that you can get a feel for what it's like and decide if you'll like it or not. The mystery is fascinating and, like Murderbot, it's casually queer in a really good way. Martha Wells clearly loves her a lesbian power couple.

#i listened to the audibook and the narrator is also very good #martha wells #witch king by martha wells #witch king #god i hope this is the first in a trilogy #reviewing partially because i saw someone be shitty this isn't a murderbot book and this offended me #writers can and SHOULD do new things #deal with it

[bogkeep]

the ferry ride was terrible in many ways, but doing nothing for several hours but lie down in a dark cabin and listening to the most recent murderbot diaries was. admittedly. pretty nice

#ALMOST HOME AGAIN #murderbot is very good and i actually really liked the audibook version #it might actually be easier for me bc i tend to get stuck in a lot of the technobabble or action stuff where i struggle to visualise things #and this way i get through it without rereading the same page five times........ #anyway the ferry didn't have working wifi; the card terminals were broken; and everything was closed when i hadn't had breakfast #and everything seemed kinda mismanaged and badly timed so there were crowds of people everywhere waiting for things #and taking the night ferry is of course superior to day ferry bc u get more daylight for driving after and hotels are expensive #but that one was sold out. tragic #and im not the one paying for things but the hotel made us pay a 'tourist tax' for two days #even though we arrived late in the evening and left early morning without doing anything else in the city. #absolutely mortifying ordeal of having to watch your parents seethe at a poor hotel receptionist just doing their job #BUT AT LEAST THERE'S MURDERBOT

[richardarmitagefanpage]

The Borgia Portrait by David Hewson, narrated by Richard, will be released on Google Play and Kobo on November 2, 2023.

It will also be released on Audio CD on W.F. Howens on December 1, 2023.

#richard armitage #david hewson #the borgia portrait #new audiobook #audibook #google play #kobo #november 2023 #audio cd #w.f. howes #december 2023 #news

[szappan]

god i hate 18th century english writers theyre not old enough to be interesting and not recent enough to be exciting i hate those self contradictory little twits with their cheeky little satires and mock poems that require the memorising of a fucking phonebook to be enjoyable i dont KNOW who youre talking about leave me out of it i dont care about your incomprehensible double entendres and i dont like your so called wit and whatever happened to brevity anyway

#my post #no your 20 page poem isnt 'rewarding' to work through a) i didnt care in the first place b) youre an asshole #and i still havent read gullivers travels.. it's thursday i need the handout by the weekend at the latest #time to break out the old audibook i guess. it has the downside of me not conprehending half of ot but at least i'll get to the end of it #stop making me read things!! i dont compute any of it!!! i think ive said this before. like two weeks ago #i cared up until shakespeare and now i dont. wasnt it enough. perhaps i'll start caring again around the 1950s but count me out until then #*comprehending

[arctic-hands]

C'mon audible. work with me babe. let me filter the history book section in ways that exclude bill o'reilly and every other pseudohistorian who thinks they're smart just because they talk loudly

#audible #audiobook #I just want a credible book on like Sumer or something pls #if this weren't audibook only I'd try to spend my credit learning cuneiform

[henghost]

how far are you in twiiiiig???? :3 i want to know what i can Post abt without worrying abt spoilers

i am in the middle of arc 14, specifically like a couple paragraphs into 14.11 :O i'm enjoying it!! thank you for considering me when posting about twig... unlike SOME people i know, you have remembered that twigblr is really just a little playground for me and me alone

#twigblr #update #sorry liveblogs have slowed #no more audibook! #i have to actually pass my eyes over the words #henghost's twig arc #asks

[officialbillhader]

I could very possibly be forgetting a book bc i didnt write any down but i read maybe like 2 books last year, including a textbook, but 19 this year at least. And thats growth baby!

#awesomepie3221 #20 if you count an audibook of a book ive already read (good omens)

[catastrxblues]

oh wait i just realized!! i finally finished my reading goal!! sleep deprived and kinda bleary but happy i guess

#how the hell did i read 40 books last year like that’s insanee #i only finished my 2023 reading goal of 23 books now like #last year me confess spill what was your secret. #oh yeah i was still hopeful about hs and stuff #i should probably sleep this is probably bad for my brain #also i just keep hearing that solitaire audibook narrator in my head 😭 #i spent most of the book just reading it but i have tried multiple times using the audiobook and the voice just clings to me #i’m not annoyed i think they did a great job #just kinda funny (and also the reason i stopped was not because of the audio at all i’m just not much for listening when i can just read #them i guess) #reading tag #nadirants

[audiomorphscast]

Book 27 - The Exposed

#animorphs #ka applegate #audibook #rachel #the exposed

[bogkeep]

i think i finally Hacked how my brain works in regards to audiobooks - i Read fiction and Listen to non-fiction. for fiction i need to absorb every word and fall out of it if i space out and miss something, while in non-fiction i tend to get stuck on words i'm not completely familiar with or very dry explanations and it takes me half an hour to turn the page. ALSO i have spent so much of my years at school doodling and drawing while teachers teach, and now i'm going to a school where i'm Making Something With My Hands and i've been drinking up podcasts like nobody's business while i work, so it's BASICALLY a role reversal, which is very funny to me. i don't think it's going to work for Every non-fiction book or every day at school but the fact that i've been able to get through THREE books in the past two weeks is really exciting to me! the only non-fiction book i've ever actually finished reading beginning to end before this has been 'because internet' by gretchen mcchulloch (IT'S ABOUT INTERNET LINGUISTICS!!! IT'S GOOD!!) so this is a huge discovery ahaha

#haiz reads things #i have several of the wheel of time audibooks but WE'LL SEE IF I'LL EVER GET THROUGH THEM. MAYBE. WHO KNOWS. SOMEDAY. #i need to not feel guilty if that someday never comes around

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

Another romance novel pet peeve of mine.

When the summary is typed like this?

It drives me insane.

Not every statement needs its own line.

Especially when it switches POV like this.

You see those statements above?

Here's the other character saying the exact opposite.

Also there's an abs mention so that you know the guy in the book?

He's as hot as the guy on the cover.

Who was clearly chosen on purpose.

Ambiguous statement trying to entice you to read more...

But seriously, if it's more than one sentence followed by a line break, fine, but having multiple single sentences on their own line (that are often fragments) does not inspire confidence that you can form a paragraph.

#Dany's Audibook Adventures

[old-stoneface]

its so hard to make comprehensive posts abt jingo bc its a book that deals w so many different things and it all feels like a vessel to discuss something else entirely , which of course it is. but this is the first vimes book where the climax doesn't take place in the city and vimes experiences culture shock so strong that it gives him a ton of character development. theres a lot to unpack from his conversation with ahmed and then everything that happens after that

#so fucked up. ill have to reread so i can get a better handle on it #this is my fourth time reading jingo bc i read it before and then listened to the audibook twice #its such a dense book . idk #its so so good though #sam.txt #discposting