Updated January 19, 2026 Listening to a book read by someone else is quite a different experience than reading it yourself. I’ll tell you why I love audiobooks and why you should try one. (There are no affiliate links here.) A few years ago, my older brother died quite suddenly. I handled it well, I
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I’ve been reading (ahem…) about book challenges this week and remembering my previous attempts to keep up with them. I’m fairly sure I failed 90 percent of the time. Regardless, I’m ready to take one on again! What’s that you ask? “Why would you do that again, given your track record?” I enjoyed the 2018
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Hope for the Best (The Chronicles of St Mary’s #10) Author: Jodi Taylor; Genre: Time travel fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Zara Ramm; Publisher: Audible Studios (2019); Rating: [usr 5]. If you haven’t read any of this series, I would strongly suggest you give it a try. Very British, very funny, great characters, and fascinating premise.
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An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) Author: Charlaine Harris; Genre: Alternate History/Western Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Eva Kaminsky; Publisher: Recorded Books (2018); Rating: [usr 4]. Yes, that Charlaine Harris. I’ve only read the first of her famous Sookie Stackhouse series, a contemporary urban fantasy. I much prefer a historical theme, and this one looked like
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book 1) Author: Patrick Ness, Genre: Fantasy/Science-fiction/Thriller (yes, all those), Format: Ebook, Publisher: Candlewick Press (2010), Rating: [usr 4]. This is one of those books when the protagonist goes through so many trials that I kept asking myself, “What, again?!” Just when things are looking up, here
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Spinning Silver Author: Naomi Novik; Genre: Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Lisa Flanagan; Publisher: Random House Audio (2018); Rating: [usr 3]. There are many reviews that laud the storytelling and rave about the plot of this fantasy. It’s a massive mashup of Eastern European fairy tales, with some twists. Perhaps reading it would have been a
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I’ve always loved book covers and am amazed by their incredible variety. From the antique foiled masterpieces of Art Deco to the classic Penguin paperbacks to the huge screaming typefaces of modern works, covers are true art as well as marketing. The more I look at book covers, however, the more I see the trends,
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Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery #14) Author: C. S. Harris; Genre: Historical mystery; Format: Paperback (341 pages); Publisher: Penguin Random House by Berkeley Marketing (2019); Rating: [usr 3]. This was another good volume in this popular series of historical mysteries set in Regency London. Sebastian St. Cyr must find the killer of his
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