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[Gabi]

Anna wrote: "Do you all have Android phones? My iOS Audible has always only had 0.25 increments :("

Yup, I have android (tablet), and the German audible app. My desktop version only has 0.25 steps.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Soo wrote: "@colleen - What are your choices?"

Dreadnought is the one, and the other is The Long-Lost Home, which is the finale of a series I've been waiting on.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yep, I'm Android, too.

[Anna]

I've never tried anything to do with audiobooks on my laptop, but it seems like iPhones get inferior increment options. It's fine, I'm used to what I have, I'm not crying.

[Bobby]

colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "Soo wrote: "@colleen - What are your choices?"

Dreadnought is the one, and the other is The Long-Lost Home, which is the finale of a series I've been waiting on."

I'm trying to finish Jade City in time for the Dreadnought buddy read. I've been wanting to read Dreadnought for a while, so I'm really excited to be able to talk about it with other people. I had to get the physical book from the Library, which isn't my favorite way to read, but I can make do.

[Ine]

I just sent off my order for a used copy of His Dark Materials (an omnibus of all three novels for 4€, praise thee used book websites!)

I actually never read these? Even though I devoured all the hype books as a teen? (HP, Panem, heck even Twilight, also the Inkheart trilogy - which might have been more of a phenomenon in Germany-) So why not these?

I hope they can draw me in just like these other series back in the day!

PS Im not ashamed to admit I read the Twilight books, we all grow and our tastes and opinions with us

[Beth]

It's always fun to see how others approach audiobook speed. I'm pretty new to them and 98% of the time listen on 1.0x. In a perfect world, the narration is an experience of its own that speeding it up would dilute. But of course, just as with books, not everything that comes out is a masterpiece worth savoring every moment of, and audio runs the gamut from beautiful to workmanlike to downright annoying. If an audio feels like it's wasting my time, I'll inch the narration up to 1.15x. Daring! :D

[Gabi]

Beth wrote: "It's always fun to see how others approach audiobook speed. I'm pretty new to them and 98% of the time listen on 1.0x. In a perfect world, the narration is an experience of its own that speeding it..."

Usually I, too, listen at 1.0x speed. As you said, the narration is an artform in itself and should not lightly be vandalized. But I'm so struggling with my current book (which is 37 hours), and the alternative would be to give it up … which I don't want to do.

[Soo]

colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: Dreadnought is the one, and the other is The Long-Lost Home, which is the finale of a series I've been waiting on."


That one sounds fun. I would read whichever one grabs your interest the most and zoom it in. =)

[Dawn F]

I have an iPhone and I have several speed options, also the other way, slower, both for the Audible app and Storytel. While I agree the audio narration is also part of the experience, narration is always slower than I can read in my mind so it makes sense to me to speed it up. I also never feel it takes away from the audio experience or performance itself, in fact I’d feel it took away if I had to struggle through it at the slow pace a lot apparently read at.

[Anna]

Dawn wrote: "I have an iPhone and I have several speed options, also the other way, slower, both for the Audible app and Storytel."

I'm sorry everyone, but I must get to the bottom of this mystery. Your iPhone Audible gives you 0.05 increments? And Storytel too? I have 0.25 on both!

[Dawn F]

On my iPhine Storytel gives me options from 0.75 to 2.0 x speed, and Audible gives me 0.75 to 3.0 times speed.

[Dawn F]

Not sure what increments mean. The intervals are 0.25.

[Kaa]

Jordan wrote: "Yeah, Rat Queens is so frustrating. When the first volume came out it seemed like it was going to be such an amazing series, and then it all turned out to be downhill from there. I keep reading it hoping they'll manage to get it to work again. :c"

If it ever improves let me know! I so desperately wanted it to be good, and there is still so much potential, but I just don't have the time or money at this point to keep reading in the hopes of
improvement.

[Anna]

Dawn wrote: "Not sure what increments mean. The intervals are 0.25."

Yeah that's what I mean. So it is iPhone vs. Android. Now I know.

[Trike]

ALLEN wrote: "When current (Illinois) Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks "to the masses" he wears the JCP type of plaid shirts and drops his "g's."

When he is seen heading into expensive formal-dress fund raisers (that ..."

That’s called code switching. We all do it.

[Eric]

I finished Intense ending!

Onto the next in the series, Ship of Magic.

[Bobby]

Eric wrote: "I finished Royal Assassin. Intense ending!

Onto the next in the series, Ship of Magic."

Eric, Royal Assassin is the 2nd book in the series. Did you mean Assassin's Quest? If you hadn't read Assassin's Quest yet, it's the 3rd book in the series, and you might want to go with that before you start Ship of Magic.

[Lowell]

I just finished up Jade City.

3/5 , decent, but overly long. It exists in a very weird fantasy tech space. It definitely didn't need to be as long as it was.

[Megan]

I finished the Machineries of Empire trilogy last week and very much liked it; it kept my brain and my heart busy. I'm looking forward to reading Conservation of Shadows soon-ish.

Then I read Bethany C. Morrow's Mem this week and enjoyed it a lot. It's a novella (or a short novel, idk) about extracted memories embodied in physical clones of their owners, set in Montreal in the 1920s, and it's quiet-ish and meditative, with some neat world-building. I wasn't 100% sold on the mechanics of the memory extraction thing, but I thought Morrow went interesting places with it.

[Anna]

Megan wrote: "I finished the Machineries of Empire trilogy last week and very much liked it; it kept my brain and my heart busy."

Yay! Talk to us about it here if you feel like it.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

(Anna's saying "omg this is my favoooritte someone come please talk about it so I can remember the servitors and Kujen and think about doing a reread")

[Anna]

lol pretty much :D

[Megan]

LOL. I'm fully distracted right now by carefully answering the "What Faction of the Hexarchate Are You?" quiz linked to in that post, but I'll be by with Servitor love when I'm done with the quiz (and hopefully correctly identified as Liozh).

[Eric]

Bobby wrote: "Eric wrote: "I finished Royal Assassin. Intense ending!

Correct, I meant Assassin's Quest. Got them reversed. I edited the post Thanks!

[Kaa]

Megan wrote: "I finished the Machineries of Empire trilogy last week and very much liked it; it kept my brain and my heart busy. I'm looking forward to reading Conservation of Shadows soon-ish."

Ah, I loved Conservation of Shadows! I read it even before Ninefox Gambit, and all the stories just blew me away. "It kept my brain and my heart busy" is such a great way of describing how Yoon Ha Lee's writing almost always makes me feel.

[Megan]

I'm glad to hear the collection's good! I've read a couple of his short stories before and really liked them.

[Jordan]

Finished listening to The Robots of Dawn. It was fun to seem him tying his robot series into his other books.

Just started listening to The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. Only about an hour in right now, but I'm intrigued.

And I'm finally picking up the pace on The Ruin of Angels, so hopefully I'll finish it this weekend.

[Karen]

Finally finished Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death and was pretty underwhelmed. Pretty sure I won't go on to others in the series. I'll watch the show instead.

Started listening to Midnight Riot and loving it! Great narrator, great humor, lots to enjoy.

[Soo]

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire was a recommendation due to another UF. It was pretty great! It starts off with a little poetry/lyrics and then falls straight into ghost stories. I liked it so much that I went & bought the paperbacks for the two books in the series. I already skimmed the book & I actually prefer reading this one vs listening to it.

I came home with exactly the books I meant to buy today from Barnes & Nobles. That almost never happens. LOL

I was also pleasantly surprised by #Starstruck. Fun NA romance novel with just the right mix of characters & attention to detail that I enjoy reading. The audio was awful. Eek!

Audible Original Short Archangel was fun! I enjoyed the audio drama. Time/Dimensional Travel + Politics. Good times.

[AndrewP]

Anna wrote: "Soo, what app do you listen with that let's you change the speed with 0.05 increments?"

BookMobile has 0.05 increments. I use it all the time for Overdrive .mp3 books.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Having a pretty good reading day! Finished The Eye of the World and felt like I'd been freed. The world is my oyster, now, no need to settle just for the eyes!

In short, I did not care for it.

Also finished Babel-17. I shan't say more here.

I find myself unexpectedly ahead, so naturally I've gone and ordered too many books to compensate.

[Dawn F]

Lol the feeling when you finish a boring book is so grand and you feel so free XD

I can’t wait to start on Babel-17, too!

[Soo]

While digging on Kindle Unlimited for Read & Listen books for the SF stuff, I came across Good Behavior by Blake Crouch. Apparently it has been picked up to be a show. The ebook is one of the animated ones and I'm eager to see how they put it together. It looks like parts of the show have been put into the book. Which is cool!

My Barnes & Nobles Haul (Only bought my buy list! Ha!)
Sparrow Hill Road (Book is better than audio! Bonus notes!)
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Sequel to Sparrow Hill Road)
Gridlinked
Assassin's Fate
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Alternate Routes (Had to buy the Hardback after listening to the audio.)
Expiration Date
The Queen of Crows
City of Lies


Started Reading/Listening:
Heart of Stone - I think audio for female lead UF stories are not done well. I end up not liking the audio as much as I do the print. This one does not catch my attention like Walker Papers but I have my fingers crossed. This series is on Romance Package so... I figured, why not?

On the Shoulders of Titans - Follow up to a LitRPG series I started last year. Initially, I was really happy to see a recap by the author at the beginning of the book. Then I read the recap and I'm like what the heck did I just read? Why is it written so badly? Hahaha! We'll see how long this lasts. This one isn't available on audio so I'm trying to make time to read it. Uh.

I may have accidentally listened to half of Rocketship Galileo. The book is very dated but if anyone wants to know some of the lingo I wanted in Calculating Stars, please listen to this book. Heh

[Jacqueline]

Yeah I went book shopping yesterday....when doesn’t she I hear you say.

Went for Reece Witherspoon’s Whiskey in a Teacup. I also wanted House With A Clock In It’s Walls, Times Convert, The Single Ladies of the Jacaranda Retirement Village and Alice Hoffman’s new one Faerie Knitting. The only one I didn’t find was Faerie Knitting.

Whiskey in a Teacup is a beautiful book. Only thing missing is a nice piece of ribbon to use as a bookmark.

[Don]

River God by Wilbur Smith and it very good

[Don]

Next installment of MurderBot on pre-order.

[Gabi]

Last week I finished

All Systems Red, which was a nice read, yet I couldn't get into the hype I was reading elsewhere. (And since the second book is 8 € for under 200 pages I won't be reading it any time soon)

To Say Nothing of the Dog, which was lacking story and sometimes sense, yet hooked me with such a delightful, crisp prose that I realised, I didn't mind the shortcomings and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Assassin's Quest, which developed into my personal nemesis, and I found myself relieved when it was finally over.

Rendezvous with Rama, which surprised me, cause I didn't think I'd like classical pulp SF.

And now, finally, little ones, I'm coming! Children of Time. I'm soooo curious how I will like this.

[Dawn F]

Really, really look forward to your opinion on Children of Time! It’s one of my favorites.

[Gabi]

Dawn wrote: "Really, really look forward to your opinion on Children of Time! It’s one of my favorites."

My hopes are so high for this one. I mean... How often do you get a book with a POV of spiders? I'm an enthusiastic arachnophilia, walking in a society of arachnophobes.

[Kirsten]

I've been reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and listening to Leverage in Death by J.D. Robb

[Soo]

Good Behavior was great! Crime noir. I kept thinking Leverage. =D

It's on KU Read & Listen. I loved the audio. The ebook was cool. I liked the stills more than the little clips. Episodic style short stories that give you a solid tale and builds on the characters & setting. I had a lot of fun with this one.

[Jacqueline]

I read Reece Witherspoon’s book Whiskey in a Teacup yesterday afternoon. It’s a lovely book about her life in the South filled with lovely recipes for fried chicken and biscuits and other amazing looking foods. And her grandmothers iced tea. It was a nice quick read and gives an insight into why she is like she is. A smart, beautiful, talented, entrepreneur who champions women and of course reading.

[Kirsten]

I'm reading Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden by M.C. Beaton and listening to Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

[Jacqueline]

I love Aggie :) I haven’t read that one but it is one of the ones that was adapted for TV. The Agatha Raisin TV series is lovely.

[AndrewP]

The audio books are narrated by Penelope Keith, she has a great voice for Aggie :)

[Anthony]

I read my first-ever Arthur C. Clarke book, Rendezvous with Rama, and enjoyed it very much. He had an engagingly light touch when dealing with some heavy science, and he infused the book with a wonderful sense of mystery and awe.

Now I’m finally getting to our official monthly fantasy selection, The Poppy War.

[Kirsten]

AndrewP wrote: "The audio books are narrated by Penelope Keith, she has a great voice for Aggie :)"

I think shes a perfect Aggie.

[Jacqueline]

Ashley Jensen is great as Aggie on the TV series. They’ve tweaked the characters a bit. Aggie is slightly younger (and Scottish) than the books and so is the housekeeper (she’s a single Mum with a young daughter) and the vicars wife. It still works extremely well. I love both. Penelope Keith would be great as Aggie from the books.

[Kirsten]

That was my problem with the series - she was too young.