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Release Week: The Memory of Light, Libriomancer, Lost Things, No Further Messages, and Dungeons and Dragons galore

Posted on 2013-01-09 at 17:43 by Sam

The first full release week of 2013 is a big one. Of course there's the decades-awaited conclusion to The Wheel of Time, which at nearly 42 hours could certainly fully occupy a listening month. There's also an audiobook of an interesting 2012 title that didn't make it into audio last year, but the second biggest audio news this week is undoubtedly that with more than 200 audiobooks added, Dungeons and Dragons has invaded Audible in a big way, big enough to warrant a new mini-site. I won't even try to list

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Sam's listening report: October 2012

Posted on 2013-01-05 at 12:00 by Sam

After my slowest listening month in a very long time -- four audiobooks and a novella podcast episode in September -- I was back up to seven audiobooks, buoyed a bit by fall review copies coming in. It was a fantastic month in terms of enjoying what I was listening to as well, from fantasy (Hal Duncan's Vellum, Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires) to anthologies (V Wars, Fantastic Imaginings), a non-fiction collection (Neal Stephenson's Some Remarks), and even a rare (for me, apparently) non-genre

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The AudioBookaneers 2012 Year in Review, Part 1: Our Favorite Listens

Posted on 2013-01-05 at 00:13 by Sam

Well, like everybody else, we're taking a look back at 2012. It was the biggest year ever in terms of audiobook releases: Audible Frontiers published 750 audiobooks this year alone, not to mention the output from the other major and independent publishers and the influx of ACX titles this year. Did we listen to everything? Oh no. (More on that in the second part of this series. Much more.) Did the audiobook publishers get to every deserving book? Not quite. (More on that in the third part of the series

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Review: The Dragon King

Posted on 2013-01-04 at 03:20 by Sam

The Dragon King by Dan Redwine Narrated by Ken MacMillan for Nation9, Inc. Length: 13 mins -- Release Date: 12-28-12

Review by Sam:

Nation9 has been releasing short English and Spanish audiobooks for kids and young teens, starting in mid-December 2012. So far they've a few Sherlock Holmes titles (ex. Sherlock Holmes - Scandal in Bohemia: Intro to Classics) and a pair of adaptations of Japanese tales, the other being Ogre of Rashomon. As I quite often listen to audiobooks with my kids, when I saw this

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Release Week: Thieftaker, Gun Machine, Great North Road, and Scoundrels

Posted on 2013-01-02 at 03:29 by Sam

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TKTK Sam Listening Plans Always Private TKTK

Posted on 2013-01-01 at 05:00 by Sam

TKTK:

RC INBOX:

Downpour:

• FEB? The City of Devi, Farside, Free Lunch
• Teaspoon of Earth and Sky
• Daughters Who Walk this Path
• Birthright
• Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

• Sold
• Midnight Riot

• Gardens of the Moon
• This Book is Full of Spiders
• Valente 2
• Last Dragonslayer

January 2013:

The Dragon King -- reviewed

The Wizard of Oz -- review in draft

Last Call by Tim Powers --done - to review

The Human Division ep. 1

Declare by Tim Powers -- done - to-review -- do dual review of

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Battle of the download sales: Downpour's 40-50% off through Tuesday

Posted on 2012-12-29 at 19:54 by Sam

I posted yesterday about Audible's $7.95 sale (on 100+ audiobooks) which also runs through Jan. 2, but I should also mention that Downpour.com (Blackstone Audio's new multi-publisher DRM-free audiobook store) is also running a sale. Theirs is 40% off all downloads, 50% off of "Classics", as well as a wide selection of MP3-CD and CD audiobooks for sale, through Tuesday. Enjoy! Among other selections, I can certainly recommend, on sale for $11.97:

The Testament of Jessie Lamb (UNABRIDGED)

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Audible's $7.95 sale through January 2, including Lev Grossman, Haruki Murakami, Cherie Priest, and more

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 14:20 by Sam

Audible is having a "Holiday Relief Sale" which lists 100+ audiobooks for $7.95 through January 2, and includes quite a few good sf/f listings. In particular, if you haven't yet picked up Lev Grossman's The Magicians: A Novel, narrated wonderfully by Mark Bramhall, now is absolutely the time. The best "deal" appears to be on Haruki Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World which normally lists for $44. And! Two books in Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century. There are also plenty of new

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Release Week: Alchemystic, The Ramal Extraction, Half Life, and more

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 03:41 by Sam

The last release week (though not quite the last releases) of the year brings a few interesting titles, but all in all a quiet week.

Alchemystic: A Spellmason Chronicle, Book 1 by Anton Strout, narrated by Linda Borg for Audible, Inc. -- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins. Out in the early fall in print/ebook from Ace: "Alexandra Belarus is a struggling artist living in New York City, even though her family is rich in real estate, including a towering Gothic Gramercy Park building built by her great-great

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The Guilded Earlobe's Top 20 Audiobooks of 2012

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 02:13 by Sam

The Guilded Earlobe's Top 20 Audiobooks of 2012 are a must-listen list, and, eep, I've only gotten to two of them, The Rook and Throne of the Crescent Moon. The question isn't, really, if I'll get to his #1 pick for the year (A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren) but rather, when. (It will be a bit longer before I'll get to the nearly 48 hours of The Stand.)

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