I’ve fallen way behind listing the audiobooks I’ve completed.\u00a0 Its amazing how many I can get through while walking the dog every day.<\/p>\n
Title: Allan’s Wife
\nAuthor: H. Rider Haggard
\nSource: Librivox
\nURL: http:\/\/librivox.org\/allans-wife-by-h-rider-haggard\/<\/p>\n
The story of Allan Quartermain’s wife, with some other adventures.\u00a0 A perfectly good adventure story, although with a fairly predictable plot.\u00a0 It may have been innovative when first published, but the plot elements have been repeated so often since that it is pretty clear the shape the story line will take early on.\u00a0 The reader is good, although her voicing of native African characters sounds to my ear more like Indian than African.<\/p>\n
Title: Anne of Green Gables
\nAuthor: L. M. Montgomery
\nSource: SimplyAudioBooks.com
\nURL: http:\/\/www.simplyaudiobooks.com\/audio-books\/Anne+of+Green+Gables\/20306\/<\/p>\n
SimplyAudioBooks makes something in their catalog free each month.\u00a0 I’m willing to try almost anything for free…. and I’m glad I did.\u00a0 I never read this classic at the “Young Adult” age, even though I did ready the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and such.\u00a0 I don’t know why I skipped it, and I’m happy to have filled the gap.\u00a0 This story is quite enjoyable, with interesting and realistic characters.\u00a0 The reader does a great job of voicing the characters.\u00a0\u00a0 Highly recommended!<\/p>\n
Title: The Stolen White Elephant
\nAuthor: Mark Twain
\nSource: SimplyAudioBooks.com
\nURL: http:\/\/www.simplyaudiobooks.com\/audio-books\/Stolen+White+Elephant\/46374\/<\/p>\n
A Twain I haven’t run across before, this is a long short story, not a full novel.\u00a0 It is full of absurdity as detectives struggle to find the stolen elephant.\u00a0 I was not thrilled with the reader, who seemed to me to not understand where the deadpan humor is in Twain’s writing.\u00a0 But if this comes up free again at SimplyAudioBooks, it’s well worth the price.<\/p>\n
Title: Sketches Old And New
\nAuthor: Mark Twain
\nSource: Librivox
\nURL: http:\/\/librivox.org\/sketches-new-and-old-by-mark-twain\/<\/p>\n
A collection of familiar and unfamiliar short stories and essays.\u00a0\u00a0 Some are better than others, of course, but its a nice collection.\u00a0 The reader, John Greenman, has done a lot of Twain for Librivox, and he really understands how to deliver Twain’s humor.<\/p>\n
Title: A Short History of England
\nAuthor: G.K. Chesterton
\nSource: Librivox
\nURL: http:\/\/librivox.org\/a-short-history-of-england-by-g-k-chesterton\/<\/p>\n
Chesterton’s view of history is that of the continuing advance of Civilization (spelled Christianity) over pagan barbarism.\u00a0 That view lends a certain predictable perspective to his narrative, which can get annoying.\u00a0 It is, however, interesting to listen to the arguments, and a good bit of his discussion of the events of the late 18th century (e.g. 1776) is from quite a different perspective than standard American history provides.\u00a0 The reader is adequate, but would benefit from checking a dictionary for pronunciation of some less common words.<\/p>\n
I’ve fallen way behind listing the audiobooks I’ve completed.\u00a0 Its amazing how many I can get through while walking the dog every day. Title: Allan’s Wife Author: H. Rider Haggard Source: Librivox URL: http:\/\/librivox.org\/allans-wife-by-h-rider-haggard\/ The story of Allan Quartermain’s wife, with some other adventures.\u00a0 A perfectly good adventure story, although with a fairly predictable plot.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}