Audiobook finished
Jan. 15th, 2010 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyFragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Collection of short stories, read by the author. I just came across it in the library last week. Pretty good though not really gripping, the stories were all really quite short, except for the one at the end, The Monarch of the Glen which he said was "an American Gods novella."
I haven't finished anything much for several weeks now. I started listening to The Count of Monte Cristo on Librivox audio, but one of the readers in particular, a woman with a strong French accent, was completely incomprehensible; I couldn't really tell what she was saying, so I moved over to an ebook on that one. It's a long book and I don't get much time to actually read - I try to finish a chapter a night but can't always, and there are a lot of chapters. After several weeks I'm still only half done, and I'm afraid I'm losing track of the story. I think I may have to read it again in a year or ten to get it. Or maybe I should read a summary now before the whole thing falls apart in my head.
I haven't finished any audio recently because I burned a week or so starting Monte Cristo, then I was driving for a while with much less time to listen, and then I decided to catch up on probably a couple month's worth of podcasts, which took a week or so (Science Friday, a Cartalk or two that I missed, Wait Wait, a great David Attenborough radio series from BBC4 called "Life Stories", etc. And as long as the overtime at work continues, I'm probably still driving Tuesday/Thursday so that I can get home and eat in time to get to taekwondo.
Heh, Firefox's spellchecker thinks taekwondo should be spelled Wonderbra.
Collection of short stories, read by the author. I just came across it in the library last week. Pretty good though not really gripping, the stories were all really quite short, except for the one at the end, The Monarch of the Glen which he said was "an American Gods novella."
I haven't finished anything much for several weeks now. I started listening to The Count of Monte Cristo on Librivox audio, but one of the readers in particular, a woman with a strong French accent, was completely incomprehensible; I couldn't really tell what she was saying, so I moved over to an ebook on that one. It's a long book and I don't get much time to actually read - I try to finish a chapter a night but can't always, and there are a lot of chapters. After several weeks I'm still only half done, and I'm afraid I'm losing track of the story. I think I may have to read it again in a year or ten to get it. Or maybe I should read a summary now before the whole thing falls apart in my head.
I haven't finished any audio recently because I burned a week or so starting Monte Cristo, then I was driving for a while with much less time to listen, and then I decided to catch up on probably a couple month's worth of podcasts, which took a week or so (Science Friday, a Cartalk or two that I missed, Wait Wait, a great David Attenborough radio series from BBC4 called "Life Stories", etc. And as long as the overtime at work continues, I'm probably still driving Tuesday/Thursday so that I can get home and eat in time to get to taekwondo.
Heh, Firefox's spellchecker thinks taekwondo should be spelled Wonderbra.
