Wil Wheaton's narration in this one made me really dislike the main character

Now that I have listened, I see what you mean and I'm grateful to have been warned. One of the things I liked so much about Starter Villain (also narrated by Wheaton) is how the villains are plausibly villainous while our POV character remains likeable and sympathetic even while getting involved in that world. It seems like a hard line to walk

Towards the end of KPS, someone orders delivery of Pad Thai and Tom Kha Gai and since I am super suggestible that's what I'm having for lunch

I started listening to Band Sinister on the way into work today and while I do want to finish listening to it I don't think I can listen to anything that explicit while driving. It feels too public, somehow. Might be time to work through all of Murderbot again to be ready for the next book...

I started listening to Band Sinister on the way into work today and while I do want to finish listening to it I don't think I can listen to anything that explicit while driving

I got over that when I started listening to the Magpie Lord. But I still look around at stoplights.

It was pulling into the parking lot at work that made me anxious. I think I will just have in the car books and at home books…

I once volunteered to take a separate car to Thanksgiving (with all the food in it and no room for passengers) so I could finish listening to Queer Principles of Kit Webb, so...

One of the things I love about e-books (aside from the fact that I can carry bunches of them without physically straining anything) is that no one can tell what I'm reading. I will check out covers of books on Metro, but don't usually judge and never comment , but I'm more comfortable with a non-obvious book. I did once have someone read over my shoulder when I was still reading hard copy books on public transit and ask me about a plot point, but that's less likely with an e-book.

In a movie(or to keep it on topic) certain kinds of chick lit, that person would be your bestie or a new date. In real life, though, I can see why you might not be into it.

I once volunteered to take a separate car to Thanksgiving (with all the food in it and no room for passengers) so I could finish listening to Queer Principles of Kit Webb, so...

Excellent planning!

It's weird. I guess I'm super desensitized about people getting busy in books, so I'll read whatever, wherever (although I would probably keep the audio versions out of public areas, just because my fun isn't everyone else's fun). But I picked up a book on assassinations (I was wondering about the history and after effects thereof after reading about Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Danubia ). And I felt kind of . . . dirty, I guess? Actual, factual violence bothers me a lot more than fictional sexy times.

I had to avoid reading true crime fiction after I started a book that was about the murder/murderer of a girl I knew in college.

I will check out covers of books on Metro, but don't usually judge and never comment , but I'm more comfortable with a non-obvious book

Every time there's a post somewhere extolling the virtues of the classic 70s-80s painted bodice ripper covers and they need to make a return, at least a few of The Kids Today freak out because ewwww, imagine someone looking at you reading a book like that! And then The Old Ones explain about book wrappers you can slip your book into. The Kids Today remain baffled.

I once read a book in which a woman - an FBI agent - said that she carried one of those bodice-ripper books in case she was surveiling someone and needed to make sure no one looked at her. She'd whip it out, open it, and NO ONE would look at her.

While I did enjoy some of the old covers, sometimes the sheer ridiculousness of them bothered me (as in a "highlander" standing on a windy crag wearing a mini-kilt and no shirt).