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?

I just finished After a Hours at Dooryard Books, by Cat Sebastian. It was good. A similar vibe to her Page books, but in a different location/time. It’s set in New York City, in 1968. It’s doing my head in a bit that that’s now a historical novel setting, since I turned one that year. I don’t have any memory of it, but the cultural moment sort of culminated in Watergate, and that I do remember.

Lo, I have become historical.

Good book, tho.

Consuela - the narrator for "Curse of Chalion" is Lloyd James. He's narrated a lot of books in Audible but I don't think I've listened to anything else read by him. "Paladin of Souls" is read by someone else.

Maybe it's just me. I'm listening to Ian Carmichael's narration of "Have His Carcase" and having issues as well. I don't hear any differentiation between Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, so when they're bouncing ideas about the case off each other, I can't tell who's saying what.