Book Logging (Odds and Ends)
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the_rckHard to classify:
Duncan, Mike. The History of Rome - 179 episode podcast that does what it says in the title. I found it easy to listen to because the episodes tended to run between 20 and 30 minutes and so didn’t feel like a huge commitment. I also found Duncan’s voice kind of soothing. The podcast is complete. Nothing’s covered in really great depth.
Shaw, George Bernard. Arms and the Man - I’m not sure I should call this a book since it’s the audio of a full cast play. There’s no sound from stage business, just the dialogue, but there is occasional laughter. I can’t tell if it’s an audience or a laugh track. The acting isn’t suited to audio only but does sound very much like stage performance. I’m not convinced I actually enjoyed the play.
Shaw, George Bernard. Candida - Audio only production of the play. This one has some sounds of stage business which grounded it better than Arms and the Man. I ran aground on the two male leads sounding more or less alike to me. I lost the thread of the plot several times because the contrast between the two matters a lot.
Stalenhag, Simon. Tales from the Loop - (There’s a diacritic in the author’s name. I’m pretty sure I’ll lose the formatting if I add it as I compose this, so I’m just noting its existence.) This is a collection of artwork that, combined with text by the creator shows bits of an alternative history world with robots and transportation using the Earth’s magnetic field going back to the 50s. It’s framed as childhood memories and rumors. I’m kind of terrible at parsing artwork, so I probably missed details on that side. The text is very much small details-- all colored by nostalgia-- that hint at much, much bigger things.
Stalenhag, Simon. Things from the Flood - I probably should have taken the title as a warning. The images and descriptions of flooding here hit my phobia of deep/murky water really hard. I finished anyway, but this one wasn't nearly as much fun as the previous volume.
Duncan, Mike. The History of Rome - 179 episode podcast that does what it says in the title. I found it easy to listen to because the episodes tended to run between 20 and 30 minutes and so didn’t feel like a huge commitment. I also found Duncan’s voice kind of soothing. The podcast is complete. Nothing’s covered in really great depth.
Shaw, George Bernard. Arms and the Man - I’m not sure I should call this a book since it’s the audio of a full cast play. There’s no sound from stage business, just the dialogue, but there is occasional laughter. I can’t tell if it’s an audience or a laugh track. The acting isn’t suited to audio only but does sound very much like stage performance. I’m not convinced I actually enjoyed the play.
Shaw, George Bernard. Candida - Audio only production of the play. This one has some sounds of stage business which grounded it better than Arms and the Man. I ran aground on the two male leads sounding more or less alike to me. I lost the thread of the plot several times because the contrast between the two matters a lot.
Stalenhag, Simon. Tales from the Loop - (There’s a diacritic in the author’s name. I’m pretty sure I’ll lose the formatting if I add it as I compose this, so I’m just noting its existence.) This is a collection of artwork that, combined with text by the creator shows bits of an alternative history world with robots and transportation using the Earth’s magnetic field going back to the 50s. It’s framed as childhood memories and rumors. I’m kind of terrible at parsing artwork, so I probably missed details on that side. The text is very much small details-- all colored by nostalgia-- that hint at much, much bigger things.
Stalenhag, Simon. Things from the Flood - I probably should have taken the title as a warning. The images and descriptions of flooding here hit my phobia of deep/murky water really hard. I finished anyway, but this one wasn't nearly as much fun as the previous volume.
