I have to match the right audiobook with the right other activity (if I try to just listen to an audiobook and do nothing else I will drift off to sleep which is not terrible except I will not actually hear the story) - right now I've got the Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes as narrated by Stephen Fry as my book to listen to while I'm working (if I get caught up in something I'm doing and miss a little bit it doesn't frustrate me too much and Stephen Fry's voice is generally quite soothing) and the Murderbot Diaries to listen to while I do household chores (I don't know, it helps motivate me somehow?). I looooooove audiobooks while I'm driving but I haven't been doing much of that lately...

I love audiobooks but I am also a massive snob when it comes to narrators so I frequently bail and buy the eBook instead.

I am an audiobook snob, too. I've had some great books ruined by the narration.

But the ones I love--I will listen to them over and over. The narrator for TAofML also narrated Alexis Hall's Glitterland which is also fantastic in a different way.

I once had a message conversation with AH on Goodreads about getting an audio version of Pansies. I helped find the narrator--they were looking for a good Geordie accent, and ended up with Cornell Collins who also narrates KJ Charles' Magpie Lord series.

I play six degrees of Joel Leslie with gay romance authors all the time.

I also liked Hallowed Hunt a lot better on my latest re-read. I found the characters more appealing and the world building more interesting. But the world is very different there, and I missed the Bastard, my favorite of the Five Gods.

The Bastard is certainly all over Penric's stories

I thought "Penric and the Shaman" did a nice job of mixing the Five Gods with the shamanistic religion of Hollowed Hunt.

Totally. Having read that improved my reread of Hallowed Hunt, I'm sure. Penric having Desdemona and shamanic training/powers seems like it should be Too Much but I guess he's got enough other flaws and weaknesses that it isn't? For me, anyway.

I thought "Penric and the Shaman" did a nice job of mixing the Five Gods with the shamanistic religion of Hollowed Hunt.

... I can't remember if I've read that one. I'll have to check.

So I recently read the book Point B , A love story about teleportation, and I recommend it. I read it because the author, Drew Magary, writes funny rants for Medium and used to work for Deadspin which I loved before the editor was fired and all the staff quit.

It is self-published so it suffers from the occasional need-of-an-editor such usually do, but I still stayed up past midnight twice reading it, so I guess it didn't matter! Set in a future where teleportation is done through your phone and controlled by a company with no morals, it has a lot of good, pleasingly leftist social and economic commentary, plus a pretty cute teen girl love story.

Ooh, I will take that rec, sounds good.

I just smashed through the Penric and Desdemona story. Loved it, and now need to go back and re read the others.