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Bookburners Listen-a-Long #3: Fair Weather by Margaret Dunlap
Bookburners: Season One: Episode 3: Fair Weather by Margaret Dunlap read by Xe Sands for Serial Box [Missed Episode 1? The pilot episode is still free, and at under 90 minutes each it’s a breeze to catch up!] In some … Continue reading
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Bookburners Listen-a-Long #2: Anywhere But Here by Brian Francis Slattery
Bookburners: Season One: Episode 2: Anywhere But Here by Brian Francis Slattery read by Xe Sands for Serial Box [Missed Episode 1? The pilot episode is still free, and at under 90 minutes each it’s a breeze to catch up!] Well, … Continue reading
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Quick fiction #WhispersyncDeal roundup for Friday, September 18: Water for Elephants, The Transcriptionist, A Reliable Wife, and Jill McCorkle’s Life After Life
Rather than share/Tweet these four fantastic fiction deals one at a time, I figured I’d just quickly round them up here. Enjoy! But act fast, as these are only good through the wee hours after midnight tonight: Water for Elephants: … Continue reading
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Bookburners Listen-a-Long #1: Badge, Book, and Candle by Max Gladstone
Bookburners: Season One: Episode 1: Badge, Book, and Candle by Max Gladstone read by Xe Sands for Serial Box Bookburners is a just-launched episodic fiction project by new publisher Serial Box, the first of their season- and episode-based “shows” (for lack of … Continue reading
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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014
Well, it’s (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems … Continue reading
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Release Week: Acceptance, The Bone Clocks, Maplecroft, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Randall Munroe’s “What If?”
AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2, 2014: September is here, and so are 5 of my most-anticipated audiobooks of the entire year: Jeff VanderMeer’s Acceptance concludes his Southern Reach trilogy, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks is the Cloud Atlas author’s first new novel in four years, Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft gives … Continue reading
Release Week: Jim Butcher’s Skin Game, Jane Lindskold’s Artemis Awakening, Glen Hirshberg’s Motherless Child, Jo Walton’s Tooth and Claw, and Tim Pratt’s Heirs of Grace
MAY 21-27, 2014: Well, crap. I should have snatched up Nick Harkaway’s Tigerman before Audible (US) realized that it couldn’t sell it to me, but hopefully that’s a “not yet” and not an “ever”. So, a release week I was over-the-top excited about is taken … Continue reading
News: Bronson Pinchot to narrate Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority, Book 2 of The Southern Reach; and Xe Sands to narrate Wendy Webb’s The Vanishing
Two narrator castings to pass along this morning, the first is both the most recent and what I’ll be listening to in the wee hours of May 6: Blackstone Audio has tapped Audie-Award winning narrator Bronson Pinchot to narrate Authority: … Continue reading
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Joining Literate Housewife’s The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long
Link: Joining Literate Housewife’s The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long I’ve seen narrator Xe Sands name come up on a few titles I’m interested in listening to (most recently The Vanishers) and along comes an audiobook listen-a-long for The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz … Continue reading