Posts tagged: kate mulgrew

Whispersync Monthly Deals for June 2014: Ben Winters, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Marcus Sakey, Elmore Leonard, and more (updated June 5!)

Posted on 2014-06-02 at 18:23 by Sam

June is here, and along with it another crop of monthly Kindle deals, including quite a few fantastic titles with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the Audible editions. Here are the eight titles which most caught my eye:

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy) by Ben H. Winters, read by Peter Berkrot for Brilliance Audio, for $3.99 Kindle plus $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition -- "There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, ben h. winters, brilliance, countdown city, daniel radcliffe, dave donovan, elmore leonard, grover gardner, horns, joe hill, joyce carol oates, kate mulgrew, luke daniels, marcus sakey, nos4a2, peter berkrot, raylan, seed, the accursed, the gift, timothy olyphant

The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Sam

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I'm thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can't recall a previous year with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex bledsoe, andy weir, audies, brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, clockwork angels, doctor sleep, ellen kushner, ever after, george guidall, green space, helene wecker, joe hill, john hodgman, kate mulgrew, kevin j anderson, kim harrison, kim stanley robinson, macleod andrews, maddaddam, margaret atwood, max brooks, metatropolis, miachael page, michael kramer, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, neil peart, nos4a2, ocean at the end of the lane, podium, richard kadrey, rip-off, robert sheckley, scott lynch, shaman, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the martian, will patton, world war z

Review: NOS4A2

Posted on 2013-06-04 at 05:48 by Dave

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, Read by Kate Mulgrew Length: 19 hours, 42 minutes.

Joe Hill's latest novel might be his most epic horror story yet (Locke & Key excluded) - it's crammed full with a murderous automobile, a punk-rock librarian, a haunting and monstrous villains, and flawed heroes that are utterly human and sympathetic. It's both a coming of age story/loss of innocence story, and a tale of failed parents searching for redemption. I finished listening to it a few weeks back, and it's 20 pretty incredible

Posted in reviews | Tagged joe hill, kate mulgrew, nos4a2

All Hallow's Listen Part 2: Dave reviews Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

Posted on 2012-10-19 at 14:00 by Dave

Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle Stories by: 26 writers including Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Audrey Niffenegger, Margaret Atwood, Alice Hoffman, Robert McCammon, and more Narrated by: George Takei, Edward Hermann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Peter Appel, and James Urbaniak for Harper Audio Length: 14 hours, 11 minutes

Review by Dave Thompson

For me, Ray Bradbury’s name is more synonymous with October and Halloween than any

Posted in All Hallow's Listen, regular, reviews | Tagged all hallows listen, dave thompson, george takei, joe hill, kate mulgrew, neil gaiman, ray bradbury, reviews, shadow show