Archive for the ‘audiobook’ Category

“Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I listened to the first hour of an audiobook of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass yesterday on my flight to Florida. I have nothing erudite to say about it, it was just a harmless way to fill the time. And to distract me from the ...

Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

As I mentioned recently, I've been listening to the audiobook of Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It's an amusing comedy of manners wrapped up in an elaborate fantasy world, told as though it were a very obvious and straightforward history of England at the start of the Nineteenth ...

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I've never gotten through Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It's not that I didn't like it, I just kept putting it down and wandering off. For months at a time. I got the unabridged audio book, which I've been enjoying very much. This evening I was just down to ...