CarrieK | March 11, 2010
Adventures in Audio is a semi-regular feature in which I talk about the audiobooks I am currently listening to. If you are an audiobook listener and you would like to join in, feel free to link to your post in the comments.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen is a historical novel set in [...]
CarrieK | March 9, 2010
Title: Beastly
Author: Alex Flinn
Genre: YA fairy tale fantasy
Publisher: Harper Teen
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: I could feel everyone looking at me, but I was used to it.
I came across this book in a round-about way. The other day, my kids and I watched Stormbreaker, the movie based [...]
CarrieK | March 9, 2010
Title: Going Bovine
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: YA speculative fiction
Publisher: Delacourte Books for Young Readers
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.
Cameron Smith is dying of Mad Cow disease. Instead of wasting away in the hospital, [...]
CarrieK | February 15, 2010
Title: U is for Undertow
Author: Sue Grafton
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Putnam
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: What fascinates me about life is that, now and then, the past rises up and declares itself.
I wasn’t a big fan of T is for Trespass, but with this latest edition in the Kinsey Milhone [...]
CarrieK | February 3, 2010
Title: Spellbinder
Author: Helen Stringer
Genre: Middle grade fantasy
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: ARC through Shelf Awareness
First line: It was Wednesday.
Belladonna Johnson, the main character in Spellbinder, can see ghosts. And it’s not creepy, only inconvenient, because she often can’t tell the difference between a dead person and an alive one – and [...]
CarrieK | January 28, 2010
Title: A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Genre: Historical fiction/fantasy
Publisher: Dell
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: The dog sensed them first.
Whew! I just finished listening to the audiobook edition of Diana Gabaldon’s A Breath of Snow and Ashes – all 48 discs of it! And after being a [...]
CarrieK | January 25, 2010
Title: Eldest
Author: Christopher Paolini
Genre: YA fantasy
Publisher: Knopf Books
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook edition from the public library
First line: The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
I’ve been listening to Eldest on audiobook for a while now. I’ve found that with longer audiobooks, it helps to alternate discs, so I’ve been [...]
CarrieK | January 22, 2010
Title: Looking for Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: YA contemporary fiction
Publisher: Dutton Books
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.
John [...]