Well gosh darnit. I'm listening to the Hollows Series by Kim Harrison as audio books. The first 5 books were performed by Marguerite Gavin who was wonderfull. Now i'm on the 6th book narrated by Gigi Bermingham. She might have been ok on her own, but after hearing the others she's just AWFUL. She doesn't even pronounce character names or key elements the same. You'd think there'd be a reference key. The characters are very different with her whiny portrayal and i suddenly am less interested in finishing this book....except that i know the next one goes back to Ms. Gavin and i'd miss important plot points if i skipped an entire book due to shoddy vocal performance. It's profoundly upsetting me in a very first world kind of way.
'Conviction (1)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
It's profoundly upsetting me in a very first world kind of way.
Emmett and I felt the same way when we listened to the second of Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books with a new reader. Fortunately I'd just gotten the abridged version by accident and we were able to go back and have it read properly by Stephen Briggs.
There's a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies iPhone app. [link]
And how come none of you told me about Android Karenina ?
And how come none of you told me about Android Karenina ?
We did.
I know this doubly, because P-C chastised me when I forgot he'd mentioned it before me.
is chastened
How did I miss that?
It was a blip. I assume it's just come out? Or is coming out? Now there will be more talk about it. Maybe.
Back to the gothy YA, I strongly recommend a writer I just discovered for myself, Nina Kiriki Hoffman. I've read three of her books, and have requested everything the library has by her. There's a lovely delicacy about her writing that I particularly like.
The one that made me think of the gothy YA request was A Stir of Bones, which has a sentient house and a Victorian ghost boy.
Oh, Jilli. I tried to read the Ellen Streiber YA vampire novel, the first one, and my dear, I just couldn't get through it.
I kept trying to like it, but I just couldn't. I thought it was...kinda awful.
ION, I am rereading "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and I find it so compelling every time. Complex, but worth it. Political, literary, historical...she has a memoir out that I really would like to read,
Oh, man. I read Hunger Games and it's sequel in about 2 days this week. Less probably since I did work and sleep. Why did I think that the 3rd book was already out? Why???!!!
Anyway, I've preordered Mockingjay and cannot wait for it.
I'm so happy that so many of you guys read and talked about Hunger Games. I don't think I would have heard of it otherwise.