Star Shipped is burning a hole in my Kindle at home and I can't start reading it until Friday at the earliest because I have to finish my stupid book club book ( Vigil by George Saunders, which I did not realize before downloading was a FULL CAST AUDIO recording, and I am not at all enjoying it)

I can't tell if I'm not enjoying it because it's a full cast audio recording or because I just don't like the book. I think it's both...I strongly prefer traditional narrated audiobooks but also the main character is giving mild "breasted boobily down the stairs" vibes which is making me twitchy. (Moreso because she is a ghost and does not currently have a body to be annoyingly male gazey about, and yet!)

Full cast audiobooks rarely work for me. Which kind of surprises me every time, because actual radio plays are often great, so what's the difference?

I am told I have two weeks on my hold for Star Shipped. Which is fine, because I just started Pretenders to the Throne of God and I know I'm gonna be fully immersed in this world for a while...

I find audiobooks vary by author. I just finished listening to Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" and was frustrated by it. So much of the fun of her writing is the contrast between what Caz is thinking and what he actually says. But that doesn't come thru as well in an audiobook. Or not in this audiobook because the thinking voice and the saying voice is the same. I expect the same would apply to any of her Vorkosigan books for pretty much the same reason.

I've been listening to a lot of Georgette Heyer as I embroider and haven't had that problem with her books.

Interesting. I like listening to the Penrics as audiobooks but I don't think I've tried any of her others. Looks like a different narrator from Curse of Chalion.

I haven't tried the Penrics. I've found that I can only listen to books I've reread many times before while embroidering - I lose track of either the embroidery pattern or where I am in the book if I listen to something new or even newish.

I can imagine. I actually like to read the e-book and audiobook at the same time to maximize my ability to actually follow what's going on. Not always, but it can definitely be helpful. Choosing something to listen to while I try to do something else is a different challenge.

It's interesting. I used to listen to audiobooks all the time while driving - loooong stretches of Texas - and never had any trouble. I guess my driving brain had become automatic and my embroidery brain hasn't. Yet, I hope.

Driving is an excellent time to think about something else, in my experience. Embroidery definitely requires more thought for me. I do find that these days I have to rewind whatever I'm listening to while I'm driving more often than I used to, but typically one tap to the jump-back-30-seconds (or whatever it is) button will let me catch what I missed. That would be much harder to manage while embroidering, I'm thinking.

that's funny, bennett -- I really love the Chalion audiobook. I forget the narrator's name, something with a G?