I enjoyed this—it‘s your basic tv show tie-in so it felt like a decent episode of the show but as with most tie-in stories, stakes are low because you know that nothing big enough to change the fundamental dynamics will happen—Mal isn‘t going to die or hook up with Inara—but there was a reasonable level of “okay he is going to survive but how?” Suspense and since I loved this show, any chance to spend time with these folks is worth it!

Looking for recs for fun escapist reading—light and fun. I enjoy SF, fantasy, romance (most subgenres but historical, contemporary, paranormal are faves) and mystery—tho my preference in mystery is procedural and thrillers over cozy so maybe not so much right now). Nothing tragic or gritty; light NF okay too. And something that will suck me right in because my concentration sucks right now too. Thanks in advance, I know you guys will come thru!

I started this but will have to come back to it later. The news in the world and personal stuff (cancer in the family) is too much right now. It‘s an important book and I do want to read it but I just can‘t do serious and tough at this moment. I need fluff and escapism for a while.

FINALLY finished this one earlier this week. It was a long slow slog and I don‘t know if I‘d recommend it unless you are REALLY Into knowing about growing sugar cane. I wanted to smack sense into half the characters at various points, including Charlie, the protagonist, but especially her awful half brother. The reader on the audiobook was very good. And this takes care of Q for the #litsyAtoZ challenge @BookishMarginalia

Meh. Both the main character annoyed the hell out of me and there is no resolution to the story, gotta wait for the sequel.

Final tally for #24in48: a slightly disappointing 8 hours. After a long day working yesterday I just wanted to watch true crime shows (love dogsitting for folks with cable!) and stitch, but at least I made good progress on my project! Still love the readathon concept and plan to be there for the next one! @Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

Well I‘m not gonna make #24b4Monday or #24in48 because I only have 8 hours total at this point and haven‘t done any reading yet today. But I‘m okay with that because I was working hard on my writing biz since early this morning and got a lot done. I feel completely justified in chilling the rest of the day, I‘ll be bouncing between this book, Queen Sugar in audio, and maybe a little #Librivox in the mix. @Andrew65 @ReadingMermaid

Not sure what that “L” sticker is actually for but I‘m gonna use it to mark books I read for Librivox projects...Last night I added 2 more hours to my #24in48 for a total of 8 yesterday by prooflistening the last couple of chapters. If you like Georgette Heyer consider giving this a listen when it comes out on LV in the next few days. My first Sabatini and I will be back for more, I enjoyed it.

Finished! And that puts me 4 hours and 45 minutes in on my #24b4Monday, yikes, that‘s behind—well the good news is, I want to keep on stitching so I‘m swinging right into another audiobook...meanwhile I highly recommend this one—very funny and the narrator was just perfect for the archness is the story. @Andrew65 @ReadingMermaid

Next phase of #24in48: a cross stitching #audiocrafting session, hopefully finishing up the last 2 hours 40 min of this book, which I have been enjoying greatly! @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

Did about two hours of recording and then editing some chapters for #Librivox this morning to kick off my #24b4Monday challenge. This is the illustration from the chapter I read from “Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan” from the story of Watanabe Tatsuzo, a Tokugawa holdout who refused to recognize the Meiji restoration. He was executed by Meiji general Saigo Takamori, but won Saigo‘s respect for his honor. @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 #24in48

I really enjoyed this book! Loved the worldbuilding and looking forward to the next book in the series. I listened to part of it on audio and the reader‘s voice was lovely as well. I expected to finish during #24in48 this weekend, but now the deck is cleared for some different books...also this is the first of my #LitsyAtoZ challenge titles for the year! @BookishMarginalia

I finished Volume 2 of The History of the Four Georges, as a LibriVox audiobook. I knew very little about the details of the first half of the 18th century in Great Britain and learned a lot from this. There is a bit of social and cultural history but it‘s mainly old school political/“great men” stuff. Good for a framework of who did what when though! And I started right in to volume 3–George III, much more familiar ground.

#libraryhaul...a Doctor Who novel, a horror/suspense novel, and some “eat my vegetables” books for work...

I did my first readathon at New Years and loved it, so I‘m excited for this one. It‘s my promised treat motivating me to get all the things done for this week so I can truly indulge. Time spent reading/recording/prooflistening for #Librivox counts, right? Because I have 2 chapters left of the Haines book and I aim to finish this weekend!
#Andrew365 #TheReadingMermaid

Listening to this and giggling while cross stitching... #audiocrafting

1. Teleport! Mind reading would be hell I think.
2. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (partway through, stopped to push on an audiobook due back at library)
3. Write more, procrastinate less. So far, mixed bag. Some really good, some really bad days, productivity wise.
4. Forensic Files and Friends. Downton Abbey and Mrs Maisel on Prime.
5. 🙌🙌🙌

I was listening to this and visualizing it as a movie and thinking Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers would be perfect directors for it. Tone reminds me of Hotel Budapest or Raising Arizona with the combination of deadly serious and absurdly hilarious situations.(I know there is already a Swedish version!)

Listening to this from Hoopla. narrator is delightful and his dry style matches the humor of the book perfectly.

This was an excellent graphic novel compilation of Jeff Lemire‘s interwoven stories of life, relationships, and hockey in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. Touching stories and beautiful artwork.

Loved this. I started the Maisie Dobbs series last fall, this is #4 and they keep getting better! Happy hoopla has so many of them. Also, this counts as “female detective” for #booked2019!

This was my first prooflistening project on #Librivox! It went well and the free audiobook is now available on the website. The book is a survey of how bread gets made (c1900) from wheat field to bakery.

Just starting this! First read on my #LitsyAtoZ challenge-I decided to do all women authors, and wanted to see if I could make it extra challenging by doing all TBR plus AOC. I was able to nearly do it! My prospective reading list is complete and I have a book from a woman AOC for every letter,but had to reach beyond the TBR for 3 books—but those are all on Hoopla so I won‘t have to buy any extra. Making the list was fun, now I‘m ready to read!

It was okay. Parts were amusing and vividly described, but the main characters all irritated me and the plot just meandered. But I‘m finished my first book for 2019 and I finished the #24b419 readathon!

This took me by surprise! I was in this very program in 1983. It was at Lawrenceville School, a boarding school near Princeton. The topic changed every year; the year I went it was about Russia. Funky to see this as a casual aside in the midst of this book!

So I tallied up my reading time and I‘m at 20.5 hours. But I spent a huge chunk of yesterday reading cookbooks and planning meals. Would you count that as reading time toward #24b419? I still have a few hours this evening so I‘m going to see if I can put a push on and also actually finish a second book. I‘ve been jumping between so many!

so, would you count cookbooks as reading time for a readathon? Or pleasure books only?

I haven‘t kept up with checking in in general or on #24b419 the last couple of days, but I will tally up my total time later tonight. But I did #audioshopping for food this morning and then spent a few hours prepping meals in bags to cook later. I started this book this morning and was surprised to see how much has gone by while working!

My inelegant scrawl tracking my progress on the Readathon today. Translated, I spent about 30 min listening to an audiobook, 2 hours reading The Idiot, 30 min on Everything Trump Touches Dies, and around 4.5 hours working on various LibriVox recordings, which boils down to about 2 hours of actual reading time. So I have just over 5 hours for today. I‘ll get a little more before sleep but count it tomorrow! #24b42019 @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

I discovered that this book had shown up in my Overdrive/Libby reserves and I need to read it before it goes back, so it has jumped the line in front of the rest of my current stack. I like it so far—meandering story of a Turkish-American girl‘s freshman year at Harvard. Often funny, not much plot but nice character observations and some lovely bits of description. #24b42019

Just made me giggle!

I‘m in! #GraphicNovel2019 @GondorGirl

Narrator voice: the post was not about kink.
I actually have some Litsy newbie questions.
Is there a way to save #hashtags to remember to check on them later? Also, is there a way to zoom in or make pics bigger to see details?

Another ongoing Librivox listen that I‘ve been doing in bits and pieces for months. Currently in a stretch where I‘m listening a lot (and I‘m sure will add several more hours during the upcoming end of year readathon!) Mil Nicholson is a Librivox treasure—pro-level Reading and she is working her way through all of Dickens! I‘ve been doing Dickens in chronological order for the last couple of years, and this is the halfway book! #librivox

A History of the Four George is my current “falling asleep” listen—a book that is interesting enough to listen to while trying to fall asleep (and distracts from the anxious thoughts that want to come in when I try to sleep) but not soooo interesting that I stay awake. History books hit the sweet spot for me, and Librivox has a ton! This one will take a while because I actually want to hear it all! And I‘m only on Volume 1 of 4!

Really enjoyed this. Now I can watch the movie!

If you like Neil Gaiman‘s Norse Mythology, there is a dramatization if it on BBC Radio 4 right now! Play thru internet here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm. You can wind it back and start it from the beginning, and most likely be able to replay thru website later. I‘m in the US and it‘s working fine for me. If you like the MCU Loki, the Loki bits are pretty reminiscent of Hiddleston‘s version.

Proof-listening Sabatini‘s The Lion‘s Skin for Librivox.

1. Either, depends on mood and whether I want to snack while I read!
2. Fictional character (The Doctor!)
3. I don‘t want to cry but I HAVE to laugh, so if crying is the tradeoff, I guess I‘ll take it.
4. I would totally read 1000 page history book! (And have...)
5. Always.
#bookishwouldyourather

Settling in for my Christmas Eve #Jolabokaflod reading time with Dumplin‘...ready for something lighter and more fun! Amazon updated it with a new cover to tie in to the Netflix movie but I like the original one much better.

Then I‘ll pull up the Librivox app and go to sleep listening to The Romance of Plant Life. Best Christmas wishes to those who celebrate it!

I didn‘t think the book was going to be that useful because it was written and published just before the 2016 election so expected to be very out of date. Instead it was excellent background to understanding what‘s currently going on esp in the heavy detail about how the Russian operations work, a good bit of history of Russia and KGB etc. Also his profiles of people like Manafort and Flynn were prescient considering what we since have learned.

Still listening as I clean house. I discovered that I can speed up the audiobook and I‘m listening to it at 1.5x speed. I wouldn‘t do that with fiction or a book where I‘m savoring the writing, but as this is straightforward factual, why not? Added benefit—I think it has me moving faster in my cleaning!!

This is my current audiobook. Got a couple of chapters in while running errands and doing a grocery run this morning. #audioshopping

Just released on Librivox! I helped record this book and I‘m excited it is finished and released because I am looking forward to listening to the other chapters!

It was published in 1907 and it‘s a compendium of fascinating things that plants do to survive and grow in all sorts of environments, meant for general readership. #librivox #audiobook

Just got this from the library and started it this week. Okay so far. I‘m not a fan of what he and his kind have done to politics and while I follow him on Twitter and enjoy his live QA/rant sessions when he is waiting in the CNN green room, Im hoping to see more introspection about the role he played in paving the road to Trump before the end of the book. #firstpost