What I'm craving right now is big full-color illustrated coffee table books about fascinating things, like a history of fashion or ballet or pastry.
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
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."
Amy - Mar 25, 2020 12:38:25 pm PDT #25739 of 28195
Because books.
-t - Mar 25, 2020 1:31:13 pm PDT #25740 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Audiobooks + driving = perfection
Steph L. - Mar 25, 2020 1:38:18 pm PDT #25741 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When I'm driving, I have to listen to audiobooks I've already read. If I haven't read them before, I get too absorbed in them and don't pay attention to the road.
I can also never listen to a David Sedaris audiobook while I'm driving, because I almost ended up in a ditch that way once.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2020 2:17:18 pm PDT #25742 of 28195
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I had much the same happen to me with listening to "Blue Bayou" during a 3 a.m. drive. I love Linda Ronstadt, but not quite enough to die for her.
-t - Mar 25, 2020 2:33:16 pm PDT #25743 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Driving long distances on long boring freeways, I should say. If I have to do a lot of turning or negotiating traffic, then no.
Atropa - Mar 25, 2020 4:19:55 pm PDT #25744 of 28195
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
However, I'm down with a really bad migraine today, so I am listening to an audiobook. If you like slow-build creepy, Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand is excellent.
Jessica - Mar 26, 2020 4:52:00 am PDT #25745 of 28195
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Audiobooks + driving = perfection
I've been wondering how the lack of commutes is impacting audiobook/podcast stats. My daily listening is waaaaaay down.
Toddson - Mar 26, 2020 4:54:56 am PDT #25746 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't drive and I commute by bus; I've found that I prefer to read an e-book on the bus ... partly so I can look up and see where I am and stop at the end of a chapter or section and, unfortunately, partly for safety reasons.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 26, 2020 5:38:57 am PDT #25747 of 28195
What is even happening?
Argument with husband. He insists audiobooks are not "reading."
I will die on this hill.
You have my sword.
I love you people.
Toddson - Mar 26, 2020 6:28:55 am PDT #25748 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
That reminds me of when the Harry Potter popularity was at its height, people were saying that kids reading the books didn't count as "real" reading ... for reasons which escape me.
If you get the content of a book - audio, paper or electronic - you have read that book. My not liking audiobooks is a personal thing; they're books.
And, for those who like to own audiobooks, there's a company called Edward R. Hamilton Booksellers. They sell remaindered books, older DVD and Blu Ray movies and audiobooks. The prices are excellent, flat shipping charge for each order BUT they prefer that you order from their paper catalog using a check. They have a website (URL escapes me at the moment), and you can order from it, but they'll charge the same shipping rate for each item that they'd charge for an order of several items paid for by check.