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June 16, 2017
Out in the Cold: Another Audiobook Excerpt
Here is another excerpt from my latest book, Out in the Cold: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. The audiobook version should be live on Audible.com any day now. This clip takes you along on a midnight cruise among the icebergs in Greenland.
It’s me speaking; I narrate the book. I hope you enjoy it.
https://commonsenseandwhiskey.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/midnightglacier.mp3
You can get the written version of Out in the Cold on Amazon, here, and the audiobook versions of my other books here:
Common Sense and Whiskey on Audible.
Visiting Chernobyl on Audible.
And here are several more written excerpts from Out in the Cold.
Friday Photo Quiz #9
The answer to last week’s quiz: It was Antigua, Guatemala. Okay, admittedly not the easiest quiz, but Antigua is on all the tourist itineraries.
Now on to this week’s quiz. Where do you suppose this is? It’s the country’s capital. Can you name the city? The country?
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Leave your best guess as a comment. I’ll put all the correct answers into a hat, draw one, and the winner of the drawing gets a copy of the audiobook version of my book Common Sense and Whiskey. It may be that the winner must be in the USA for the Audible.com download code to work.
Win free stuff every Friday this summer. New photo every Friday, drawing the next Thursday, winner notified by email Friday. Good luck.
Now: What’s your guess in this week’s quiz? Go ahead, have a guess.
June 15, 2017
June 11, 2017
Out in the Cold: Audiobook Excerpt
The audiobook version of five-star reviewed Out in the Cold: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, should be up and available on Audible.com this week. Here’s a preview clip reported from the mouth of a glacier in Greenland.
It’s me speaking; I narrate the book. Check it out.
https://commonsenseandwhiskey.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/midnightglacier.mp3
You can get the written version of Out in the Cold on Amazon, here, and the audiobook versions of my other books here:
Common Sense and Whiskey on Audible.
Visiting Chernobyl on Audible.
And here are several more written excerpts from Out in the Cold.
Shoe Expected to Hit Floor
"The Tories tried to build a personality cult around a woman who doesn't have much of a personality." Fintan O'Toole https://t.co/wZMjN1kydJ
— Bill Murray (@BMurrayWriter) June 12, 2017
June 9, 2017
Friday Photo Quiz #8
The answer to last week’s quiz: It was the skyline of Melbourne, Australia.
Now on to this week’s quiz. This is a popular tourist town in a geologically active part of the globe. Can you name the city? The country?
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Leave your best guess as a comment. I’ll put all the correct answers into a hat, draw one, and the winner of the drawing gets a copy of the audiobook version of my book Common Sense and Whiskey. It may be that the winner must be in the USA for the Audible.com download code to work.
Win free stuff every Friday this summer. New photo every Friday, drawing the next Thursday, winner notified by email Friday. Good luck.
Now: What’s your guess in this week’s quiz?
Weekend Reading
Relax with some interesting reading this weekend:
Life Under the Volcano by John Dennehy at Roads and Kingdoms
Long Way Home by Ryan Bradley at vqronline.org
On Time by Richard Dawkins at penguin.co.uk
How the D-Day Invasion Was Planned at popularmechanics.com
Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin by Natalie Wolchover at quantamagazine.com
Gentrification, Post-Soviet Style by Jeffrey Tayler at TheAtlantic.com
June 8, 2017
It’s Election Night!
You know how, when a top is about to quit spinning and fall over, it flops one way then the next, unpredictably? See tonight's UK election.
— Bill Murray (@BMurrayWriter) June 8, 2017
Out in the Cold: Another Audiobook Excerpt
Torshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands
Here is another excerpt from my latest book, Out in the Cold: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. The audiobook version may be live on Audible.com as early as next week. This clip, like the previous, is from Part 2, The Faroe Islands, a small, gorgeous archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean. It comes early in the section, and sets the stage for the Faroes’ discovery, with a little history of the islands’ colonial master, Denmark.
It’s me speaking; I narrate the book. I hope you enjoy it.
https://commonsenseandwhiskey.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/historydarkandvague1.mp3
Until the audiobook version is available, you can buy the written version of Out in the Cold on Amazon, here, or you can get the audiobook versions of either of my other books here:
Common Sense and Whiskey on Audible.
Visiting Chernobyl on Audible.
And here are several more written excerpts from Out in the Cold.
June 7, 2017
Quotes:
“… the choice between Mrs May and Mr Corbyn is between the unpalatable and the unacceptable.” – Alex Massie in The Spectator.
Happy U.K. election day.
