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captainsblogYou may have seen some mentions in a comment on a previous entry, but I began a new reading journey today- my first one listening to an audiobook in ages. (The last one, I think, was this Dave Barry one, an odd Christmas gift from Eleanor's brother so long ago it was on cassette tapes.)
I'd noticed this with previous "e-book" downloads from the local libe- that your search was as likely to score an audiobook as it was to deliver either an .epub or a Kindle-ready format (which I can read on both PC and tablet). When I set out to find Hunger Games, however belatedly, I was so surprised to see an available copy that I didn't notice it was in audiobook format until I'd done downloaded it. I hesitated to try it during my usual cardio time, partly because it's new, partly because I read a lot faster than I listen, but mostly because the audio on my tablet isn't the best- the phone cranks quite a bit louder, and I was afraid I'd miss being able to follow along, especially with all the n00by details of geo-political stuff to deal with. Still, I wasn't really stoked to listen to any particular music this afternoon, and even though Godot II was running at about 10 percent power to start off the session, I pressed play,...
And, it was okay. It helped that I had access to Teh Interwebs (through my sadly neglected phone, which had much more power but much less to do for that hour) to help me figure out what the character names were and what the "Seam" is and such. I'm still not sure I'll get through the whole Book One in the (now) 12 days I have left to work through it, since I only bridged the second chapter by the time I finished the first installment today, but hopefully with a full charge and more expedited starting, I'll get whole hours out of it from here on out.
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That was today. Yesterday, I got round to finishing the latest Doctor installment, "A Town Called Mercy," and,....
I'm less concerned about the series jumping the shark, but I do wonder about whether it's jumped the arc.
As a standalone story goes, it, too, was okay. I've sensed for many years that modern-day Europeans are more fascinated with our nation's Wild West era than any of us are anymore (the genre having been hideously overexposed here in the decades before and after my birth), and as a sci-fi riff on the Tombstoney-woney trope, it was certainly better than what Roddenberry did with it. Yet I found myself missing what, exactly, this did for the story of the series as opposed to that in the moments; Amy was back to being an under-attack victim, Rory wasn't much more than a Roman statue, and the development of their departure seemed to just take a cute New Mexico vacay for a week. Next week seems to hold more promise (thanks to the real BBC broadcast, I got to see the full preview and the full credits), but I just hope it lives up to it, since we have a surprisingly few number of weeks before our Companions say buh-bye.
Maybe there's a subtle genocidal subplot coming out of this: the Doctor dealing with the mass destruction of Daleks, then of dinos, and now by another "doctor." Is Jex the doctor of whom we cannot ask "Doctor who?" That would be odd, since Adrian Scarborough turned 42 in 2010.
I'd noticed this with previous "e-book" downloads from the local libe- that your search was as likely to score an audiobook as it was to deliver either an .epub or a Kindle-ready format (which I can read on both PC and tablet). When I set out to find Hunger Games, however belatedly, I was so surprised to see an available copy that I didn't notice it was in audiobook format until I'd done downloaded it. I hesitated to try it during my usual cardio time, partly because it's new, partly because I read a lot faster than I listen, but mostly because the audio on my tablet isn't the best- the phone cranks quite a bit louder, and I was afraid I'd miss being able to follow along, especially with all the n00by details of geo-political stuff to deal with. Still, I wasn't really stoked to listen to any particular music this afternoon, and even though Godot II was running at about 10 percent power to start off the session, I pressed play,...
And, it was okay. It helped that I had access to Teh Interwebs (through my sadly neglected phone, which had much more power but much less to do for that hour) to help me figure out what the character names were and what the "Seam" is and such. I'm still not sure I'll get through the whole Book One in the (now) 12 days I have left to work through it, since I only bridged the second chapter by the time I finished the first installment today, but hopefully with a full charge and more expedited starting, I'll get whole hours out of it from here on out.
----
That was today. Yesterday, I got round to finishing the latest Doctor installment, "A Town Called Mercy," and,....
I'm less concerned about the series jumping the shark, but I do wonder about whether it's jumped the arc.
As a standalone story goes, it, too, was okay. I've sensed for many years that modern-day Europeans are more fascinated with our nation's Wild West era than any of us are anymore (the genre having been hideously overexposed here in the decades before and after my birth), and as a sci-fi riff on the Tombstoney-woney trope, it was certainly better than what Roddenberry did with it. Yet I found myself missing what, exactly, this did for the story of the series as opposed to that in the moments; Amy was back to being an under-attack victim, Rory wasn't much more than a Roman statue, and the development of their departure seemed to just take a cute New Mexico vacay for a week. Next week seems to hold more promise (thanks to the real BBC broadcast, I got to see the full preview and the full credits), but I just hope it lives up to it, since we have a surprisingly few number of weeks before our Companions say buh-bye.
Maybe there's a subtle genocidal subplot coming out of this: the Doctor dealing with the mass destruction of Daleks, then of dinos, and now by another "doctor." Is Jex the doctor of whom we cannot ask "Doctor who?" That would be odd, since Adrian Scarborough turned 42 in 2010.
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