If anyone is looking for something to read, I really enjoyed "Stalking Jack the Ripper" and "Bloody Jack." Both are series and the audiobooks are excellent as well.
I'm going to stalk this thread for recommendations. :D
If audible counts, I just finished the first volume of Tenshi no Kiba by Oosawa Arimasa and have just begun the second. My audiobook is in Japanese. Audible has Japanese books. I am so happy about this discovery :D
If audible counts, I just finished the first volume of Tenshi no Kiba by Oosawa Arimasa and have just begun the second. My audiobook is in Japanese. Audible has Japanese books. I am so happy about this discovery :D
Sure they count! I don't do audiobooks myself so I tend to forget. I guess I should give them a chance but I fear I'd be too restless to just sit and listen, and trying to multitask would probably break my focus. :P (I can't draw and listen at the same time, for example - I would always start doodling during lessons and lectures and only later realise that I was so concentrated on my drawing I'd stopped listening completely XD )
Next up is The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie, recommended by a friend.
Hannibal Rising, the prequel Hannibal Lector book.Read Red Dragon and now on Silence of the Lambs.
what is everyone using to listen to audiobooks? i'm looking at audible. but i don't really want another subscription and i'm trying to stop giving amazon money.
what is everyone using to listen to audiobooks? i'm looking at audible. but i don't really want another subscription and i'm trying to stop giving amazon money.
My library card gives me access to Overdrive and RBDigital. Or I check out audiobooks from the library. You could see if Overdrive or RBDigital have free books you can listen to. I think they usually have the classics available for free.
what is everyone using to listen to audiobooks? i'm looking at audible. but i don't really want another subscription and i'm trying to stop giving amazon money.
My library card gives me access to Overdrive and RBDigital. Or I check out audiobooks from the library. You could see if Overdrive or RBDigital have free books you can listen to. I think they usually have the classics available for free.
Now re-reading The Three Musketeers but in German, haha. Trying to brush up my skills. There's lots of unfamiliar vocabulary but it helps I've already read the book a couple of times. The last time was probably 15-20 years ago, though, and the film adaptations tend to take certain liberties. :lol:
Reading Lord Brocktree from the Redwall series by Brian Jacques again. Love that series and my copy is falling apart a bit. >>
The Wingfeather series, I am on book 3. I jumped in funding the animated series without reading the books. It looked super cool. So far the story and characters are amazing.
I just signed up for my library's Summer Reading Program! First book is Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time by James Gurney. I figure I'll start out with an old favorite to help get back into the habit of reading.
Until the day humanity falls.”
In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.
In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.
An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.
But An Zhe’s mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng’s eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds…
I just signed up for my library's Summer Reading Program! First book is Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time by James Gurney. I figure I'll start out with an old favorite to help get back into the habit of reading.
In my apparent goal to re read the entire Redwall series in chronological order, I am now reading The Bellmaker from that series.
Koudoawaia - Have you seen the three Redwall animated series runs? Redwall, Mattimeo and Martin the Warrior. I've seen the first two but not the third as it was hugely expensive to get the DVDs back in the day but I think it's on Amazon now.
Koudoawaia - Have you seen the three Redwall animated series runs? Redwall, Mattimeo and Martin the Warrior. I've seen the first two but not the third as it was hugely expensive to get the DVDs back in the day but I think it's on Amazon now. I read most of the first Redwall due to the series, I remember wanting Marlfox because of the cover but couldn't afford it as a kid :cry: I'm really impressed they got the voice actor of Matthias from the first series to voice his adult self in Mattimeo!
I'm reading a book I literally can't name here :biggrin: It's about particular types of spies for the Third Reich, and I'm seeing names I've never heard before, which is very interesting. Makes everyone do a double-take in the break room!
I finished Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs, and I've ordered Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs as I enjoyed the preview on Kindle and it will be very interesting to hear the experience of the opposite gender within the FLDS, even if part of the content will be very upsetting as it involves crimes against children.
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. However, I know it's going to be a tough one and I'm not sure I'll get through it. There are apparently a lot of people from Europe and the UK going independently to fight for Ukraine, someone on the radio pointed out that this book covers a similar historic situation.
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. However, I know it's going to be a tough one and I'm not sure I'll get through it. There are apparently a lot of people from Europe and the UK going independently to fight for Ukraine, someone on the radio pointed out that this book covers a similar historic situation.
i've been wanting to read that one for a while.
I'm near the end of Frankenstein and I have to say, I thought it'd be more gruesome as it's just... alarmingly relatable
I found my old James Harriot books. I loved them so much as a kid. I read a few pages of All Creatures Great and Small and the memories came flooding back :lol: I wonder if the TV show is available anywhere?
No I didn't know there was a new one! I bet it's not available here and I'm not subscribed to Brit Box or anything like that.