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I am listening to Iggy Toma narrating Prickly By Nature. Honestly his voice always draws me in, he's a joy to listen to. Makes every story he narrates a better one.On topics of read a loud stories. Here the technology was quite late developing. Through all of my childhood and teenage years we had only one radio and TV station and my fondest memories were of childrens and teenage stories being read out loud on the radio. There was always early in the morning that I could listen to while doing the chores. I have such nice memories of this and I sometimes wonder if kids are missing out with so much and advanced technology today. Are they missing out on little things like hearing Flambards read beautifully?
Antonella wrote: "All of you: just tell me when do you find time to watch all these TV series (most of which I have never even heard of)?"I usually watch about one hour per day with dinner. :-)
Now it's Midsomer Murders (with John Nettles) and Modern Family. The Midsomer episodes are pretty long, so they stretch over a couple of days.
Susinok wrote: "KC wrote: "Storm Front by Jim Butcher, narrated by the amazing James Marsters (aka Spike!). The book is awesome too! ;-) Adventures, and humor, and magic, and mystery, and a really coo..."I started yesterday the second one. So good.
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I did order THE NICE GUYS for eventual viewing from Amazon. PI bromance by Shane Black who does a lot of my favorite action movies.
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Josh wrote: "Kim wrote: "Josh wrote: "Kim wrote: "Josh wrote: "Lou wrote: "I think I had more patience when I was younger. It's either that I have less time to waste, or that I've read too much crap already not..."I think that Laura Lippman's series is set in Baltimore, MD.
Virginia Woolf talking about words (some 7 minutes).The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice. It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk was called "Craftsmanship" and was part of a series entitled "Words Fail Me".
The audio is accompanied by a slideshow of photographs of Virginia Woolf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8czs8...
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You're right!
Oh well. Those "B" cities. Boston. Baltimore. Buffalo. They're all the same. ;-D
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I really enjoyed it. It was full of all the useful stuff you tend to forget.
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I did order THE NICE GUYS for eventual viewing from Amazon. PI bromance by Shane Black who does a lot of my favorite action ..."
So THE NICE GUYS.
Disappointing actually. Not a bad film, but I feel like Shane Black was off his stride. It felt...sketchy. Maybe just a little too plot points by rote. Of course there were plenty of funny lines and you have to love Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
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Well, this is good news. :-)
Josh wrote: "Still listening to auditions for The Mermaid Murders. I've heard some really nice ones now, so I need to make my choice and move on."Excited to hear this. This book be most awesome in audio. :)
Josh wrote: "Still listening to auditions for The Mermaid Murders. I've heard some really nice ones now, so I need to make my choice and move on."Yay!
But it is certainly difficult to choose someone now, when you have had actually found the right voice before.
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Yay!
But it is certainly difficult to choose some..."
I've settled on (and signed for the next three books) Kale Williams. He's not yet known in M/M (I believe he did a couple of books for Tara Lain.) He has a huge backlist in mainstream so I'm confident the series will be in good hands.
Josh wrote: "Sabine wrote: "Josh wrote: "Still listening to auditions for The Mermaid Murders. I've heard some really nice ones now, so I need to make my choice and move on."Yay!
But it is certainly difficult..."
Ha! I almost bought both of the Tara Lain books after listening to the samples on audible. That's promising. :-D
Josh wrote: "Sabine wrote: "Josh wrote: "Still listening to auditions for The Mermaid Murders. I've heard some really nice ones now, so I need to make my choice and move on."Yay!
But it is certainly difficult..."
Looking forward to this one! Glad you got him for the whole series.
Thom Yorke live at the Le Trainon, Paris:«Bloom»
http://vimeo.com/175576988
BTW Thom Yorke is the singer of Radiohead
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Yay!
But it is certai..."
I just heard the first fifteen minutes and I'm so pleased. This was definitely the right decision.
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Yay!
But it is certai..."
Yes. I listened to those Tara Lain snippets too and thought...Ah ha! :-)
This incredible woman musician, Gunhild Carling, is Swedish:Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY
She can also play three trumpets at the same ;-):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfucLk...
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Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY
She can also play three trumpets at the same ;-):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v..."
She truly is incredible!
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Thank you for the recommendation. I'm in desperate need of a good audio book.
Warning though. It's a slow story but I like it. Halfway through and the author takes his time to buildup the relationship.
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Warning noted. :-D
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His Roland voice was a bit too quavery for me. Roland uses his voice a lot and it would remain quite strong accordingly, but other than that, I thought he did an excellent job.
I honestly prefer this narration to the first book. I hope they can get Harding for Fair Chance.
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Josh wrote: "I finally listened to Fair Play narrated by JF Harding. I really liked it! I liked his Elliot voice a lot -- in fact, I thought it was perfect -- and also his Tucker voice.His Roland voice was a ..."
I had to adjust to JF Harding, because I have listened to Fair Game very often. I like his Elliot better as the first, like you, Tucker is okay, but Roland sounds to old for me. But I like really the whole reading, absolut the right pace!
I finished In the Middle of Somewhere and is one of the best audiobooks I've listened to this year. It's a well written story with an amazing inner monologue which the narrator portrays excellently. It's a long story and the author takes his time to build the relationship between the 2 MC's because even if there relationship starts early there are a lot of issues to deal with, much like in real life. And I'm so happy I have credits because I'm dying for the second book in the series.
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His Roland..."
I only listened to FG once and that was when it first came out, so I didn't have to struggle with the continuity problem. But I really hope Carina gets him for the next one or it will be jarring.
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I send almost no audio books to my Kindle ever, so this is really puzzling.
Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian specialising in the history of emotions. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre of History of the Emotions at Queen Mary (University of London). Her most recent book is The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust.Here a 16 minutes speech of her.
Josh wrote: "Can anyone explain how ALL my audio books have ended up on my Kindle in the archive section? I send almost no audio books to my Kindle ever, so this is really puzzling."
Audible is an Amazon company.
Josh, your Kindle has a "audiobook" page or heading. If you purchase anything from audible.com, the audiobooks appear in your library. These aren't on your device, unless you download them. They're showing what you have in archive/cloud.
I don't purchase audiobooks from other retailers, so I don't know if the recording you purchased would appear in your library.
Hope this makes sense. I'm not a techie, and I suck at explaining stuff like this.
If you still have questions or concerns, you can contact Audible 24/7 and speak or chat with a real person. Most of the time, I opt for a live chat, so I have a transcript of the conversation and can refer to it rather than pestering them again for the same info.
~I have an older Kindle; occasionally the darned thing freezes up and won't complete a download, leaving the whole system in limbo. With my written in small words I can understand instructions, I can generally fix it myself! YAY me!~
Josh wrote: "Can anyone explain how ALL my audio books have ended up on my Kindle in the archive section? I send almost no audio books to my Kindle ever, so this is really puzzling."
I think it is a convenience thing. You can download it from your archives to listen on your Kindle without having to go to your Audible account and sending it.
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I send almost no audio books to my Kindle ever, so this is really puzzling."
Audible is ..."
Thanks, Judy. I did accidentally on purpose delete a book out of my archive before I thought to go on line and see what was actually happening. Oops. :-D A little too hasty that time. If you delete something out of your archive, you delete it for good.
I still don't see the value or purpose of listing your archived items on your kindle, but whatever. Now I know to ignore it.
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I send almost no audio books to my Kindle ever, so this is really puzzling."
I think it ..."
I supposed so, but I have duplicate copies of stuff in there, which is really frustrating. I have a very old kindle, however, and it's probably time for an update.
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The history of emotions! How fascinating.
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Jordan wrote: "I've got stuff on my Kindle I'd love to remove, but I've never been able to figure out how to do that without having to plug it into the computer and go file hunting, which is too much bother."LOL!
Me too. In theory I know how to do it (press on the book icon and then press on ''remove from device''), but I've noticed that the books I've removed are still there.
I always think that If I die suddenly I don't want people to find shitty books on my Kindle, although I'm sure that then I won't be bothered with such earthly concerns ;-).
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oh, I don't have a book icon. I must have an older edition of Kindle than you. I love my kindle, except for this and the fact that organizing it is a pain in the butt. :-)
Well, I guess I'm reserved to letting people see what I read after I'm dead. I'll be laughing from somewhere else, while they look at my shelves in shock. lol. Ebooks and print books. I've got lots of interesting things... lol.
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You go into your Amazon online account under manage devices and then you can remove stuff that way -- but it is a forever and permanent removal. If you change your mind, you have to rebuy the book.
I do have one file like that on my kindle that was permanently removed but still showed in my download list, which is kind of annoying.
Jordan wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I've got stuff on my Kindle I'd love to remove, but I've never been able to figure out how to do that without having to plug it into the computer and go file huntin..."Do you want to remove the book from your Kindle or delete it from your account (kind of throwing it away)?
If you have an older Kindle with actual keys you navigate to the book entry and then use the "to the right" part of the navigation button. It will open a new menu where you can decide to delete it from your device. It will stay in your account though so you download it again if you feel like reading it.
I you Calibre for cleaning up tge Kindle. It's easier to see what you're doing and you can batch delete.
Calathea wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I've got stuff on my Kindle I'd love to remove, but I've never been able to figure out how to do that without having to plug it into the computer and..."Can you also batch organize? My Kindle is an old one and I'm lazy.
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I don't have a kindle with keyboard. I think it's the generation right after that. All touch screen.
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Mines very old too and full of things like fan fiction and Gutenberg downloads, so I'm dreading the day it dies.
Ame wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I've got stuff on my Kindle I'd love to remove, but I've never been able to figure out how to do that without having to plug it into..."You mean on the Kindle? Yes, it does that. I can add books to collections in heaps.
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I've definitely cut down on tv since cutting cable. My problem now is that I do get a lot of free tv channels that are really good. A lot of them are PBS stations, but some aren't.