#Good to Great Audiobook

[mishidefresa]

Some old doodles

#Hey I watched it chapter 2 #And I been obsessed with them #For weeks #Im currently with the audiobook #I mean is not a great book I dont even think is that good #But I got sooo #Attached to all the kids specially eddie and bev #Idk I need to protect these children #Anyway 3 years late to the fandom I guess #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #richie trashmouth #Reddie #reddie fanart #It #it stephen king #it moves #It movie #it 2019 #it 2016 #it 2017 #richie tozier fanart #eddie kaspbrak fanart

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

A Tempest of Tea

first in a YA fantasy duology

follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night

when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city

fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism

#a tempest of tea #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has a really cool concept and worldbuilding and some fantastic characters! #I like the discussion of immigration and colonialism (I appreciate a story in this niche that’s not so white) #I like arthie and jin’s relationship and Arthie is a great character. #It definitely feels like the first half of a story - like is the arthurian stuff gonna come up more or is it just... #the mc is called arthie and has a gun she pulled out of a stone. Is there more to that lmao. it does end on a cliffhanger too. #The main thing I *didn't* like is that the middle kinda turns into…miscellaneous events purely to facilitate the characters being attracted #to each other. good for them I guess but i don’t care. #(I probably should have expected that based on the author’s other duology so that's on me I guess) #(the romances also feel on the older side of YA) #I also found that the audioboook narrator paused slightly too long between sentences. #I love having author interviews at the end of audiobooks! #which also directly called me out for guessing the obvious twist but not the multiple others directly after #(granted the obvious one I was like... genuinely confused whether it was supposed to be a twist bc I thought we already knew that) #also what's up with the coconut. lol. why that specifically

[vitamin-zeeth]

I'm going on multiple long as hell bus journeys next week and I need podcasts to binge please can I have some reccomendations thank youu

#for a basis of ones i like: #tma #red valley #into the night #<< that ones a podcast that just explains the fnaf lore #super suits #ehat else uhh #rslash #chuckle sandwich #yeah thats it #basically i like spooky i like funny and i like informational #and i like audio dramas anthologies people explaining one thing in great detail and OCCASIONALLY some guys sitting and talking #but only if its a really good one cause those can get boring real fast #please i need recs lol audiobooks also work #podcast recs #podcast recommendations #wet floor sign

[dykeandballs]

gm chat

#taylor swift getting whacked what a happy day #im seeing monkey man tomorrow finally...dev patel i am coming #ive started to listen to audiobooks so i can knock out more books at a time and its actually working #rn im just rereading call of the wild alongside ntn but its great #does anyone have a good site to dl audiobooks... #im currently using everand bc i dont have a library card or time to stop at the library #ref

[bisexualamy]

<- writes projects too ambitious for his own good

#'the great thing about fiction podcasts is they're low budget low barrier to entry' #'you need like 1-2 voice actors a good writer and a good audio producer and you can tell a narrative in a serialized audiobook style' #me who cannot temper his creative ambitions: #'that's great! what if instead for my first large scale project i spent a year writing a serialized audio drama with a nine person cast' #ren speaks #unnamed podcast project #anyway with any luck the project will go to workshop with a cast in a month and then all i have to do is get add'l funding

[chiropteracupola]

I think it is good that peter yearsley’s audiobook collection extends mostly to ghost stories, holmes stories, the works of e. nesbit, and some miscellaneous poetry and histories, because if he had done readings of adventure-novels too, I would unfortunately be completely In The Soup.

#once again haunted by a great desire for tales of derring-do on air and sea in the early 20th century #rereading phoenix and ashes was a good substitute but I’ve now moved on to serpent’s shadow #and the lads are taking forEver to show up so I am not quite getting my requisite dose of Adventuring #so once again the only thing standing between me and a descent into the Biggles Regions is a lack of audiobooks #most of my reading-time is in the ceramic bowl mines these days so other forms of book are less compatible with that #have I actually Looked to see if there exist such a thing. No. #since after all that would constitute Bigglesward Action (which I have endeavored so valiantly not to take) #but hey. if at some future copyright-expired time the esteemed mr yearsley of librivox Did record some. #well I would certainly not say no to downloading some files!

[salt-baby]

I just sent my accommodation requests to my professors for this academic year and I felt this gut punch of dread and shame and fear. I’ve had so many bad experiences with disclosing my disability to professors that I always have this reaction. I hate it…

I totally get it. I'm actually procrastinating mine right now...

It's always so uncomfortable to write an email to a professor that's basically "Hi! I'm disabled!" and have that be your first introduction. I've also had some really bad experiences with professors and my accommodations in the past, and because of that, sending these emails out always feels like a mountain of a task.

It really makes me think about that part of Jay Dolmage's book Academic Ableism, where they point out just how much of this process is forced onto the students - we have to know what accommodations to request without being told what the options are, and we have to facilitate our accommodations getting signed off on and fulfilled every semester.

Sometimes it can make me a little melancholy how much extra labor, not to even mention the emotional labor, we as disabled students have to go through just to sit in the classroom.

#academic ableism is such a great read #i found it really helpful in putting words to why campus felt so unfriendly to me #and to understand the barriers i was facing on all levels #its open access and available as an audiobook because the author put their money where their mouth is #sending positive thoughts and good luck your way friend #salt baby answers

[navramanan]

isnt this just gorgeous

#i havent been reading much these few days i started & finished a book about the prophet's (pbuh) character during the last 10 ramadan days #and finished the last hour of my audiobook. but rn i'm not in the mood for digitals i need a physical book #i'll be back in my uni town next week first stop is the library 😼 #been a good reading year so far hamdulillah ugh it's great i pulled myself out of a years long reading slump god bless #i love libraries i love library cards <3333 #nesi rants

[aroaceofthesea]

saw a few of your posts about z-library and some alternatives, and I had a question

do any of those sites have audiobooks? I really like listening to books while I'm doing a task but I don't want to get audible.

I don't think those sites have audiobooks, but here are some that do:

Booksonic: you have to either install the app or download the software for computer. Haven't installed it but it's open source so I'm gonna trust that it's free

Audiobook bay: free if you look long enough, never click direct download, you have to pay for that. Instead, download the audiobooks using the torrent free downloads (at least that's what it looked like in my 5 minutes of exploring the page)

Tokybook: one of those websites that complains if you have an ad blocker, people complaining about the amount of ads in the comments, but nice enough interface and easy to navigate. Not sure if it would stop those ads but AdNauseam is a good ad blocker to use in these websites because it doesn't block the ads per se but puts them somewhere else so these pages don't complain

Sorry I don't have anymore audiobook alternatives, I don't usually listen to audiobooks so I didn't have many backup pages but I hope these suit you!!

#not me taking the chance to get more ppl to use ad nauseam as an ad blocker that things is great #like in the other post just search for these in the search bar and the first result is the good website #z library #zlibrary #z library alternatives #audiobooks #audiobook z library alternatives #mine #books

[dykebeckett]

current favorite albums that also happen to have covers that fuck

#I’m about to say something crazy but bear with me. #been really into music lately. #< EXPLANATION I generally don’t listen to much music it is mostly podcasts and audiobooks and such. #anyway. these album covers are so good. #I love images. #and YES ben lochen is a guy I know personally. his cat doesn’t like me. his album cover is great. run white boy run

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Liar’s Knot & Labyrinth’s Heart

books 2&3 in a fantasy trilogy set in a Venetian inspired city full of political intrigue

follows a young woman who conned her way into a noble family, a masked vigilante, and a crime boss, who eventually become allies while juggling multiple identities

and trying to save their people and city by joining a secret society to find origins of a corrupting curse, to eventually destroy the powerful magical objects at the heart of it

tarot magic & sigil/geometry magic, dreamworlds, sentient magical disguises

#the liar's knot #labyrinth's heart #rook and rose #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #the summaries at the start are helpful. bc I forgot what happened in book one lol #I enjoyed these better - I think listening to the audiobooks helped with that a lot. They’re quite long books! #the accents in the audiobooks also enhance it a lot #I def enjoyed the series overall & listening to a whole book in a day or 2 (rather than dragging out if i did text format) is better #the overall plot and magic stuff. im not gonna lie and say i understood it all LMAO but I thought it was pretty good & def some great char #don’t super care about romance. like I don’t dislike it - & much prefer the slow burn to instalove that's everywhere - but also eh whateve #also not to be like miraculous ladybug but high fantasy. but #yeah of course the aromantic crime boss w a telepathically linked spider hosting the ghost of a dead guy as his closest companion is my fav #yeah i cried. im tearing up thinking about it now. they’re so good #his little spider gloves for his spider feet? #there's a good amount of queer characters scattered around #(vargo's aromanticism is hinted a few times; and it's pretty clear imo if you're looking; but not explicit) #i see there’s tons of people shipping him/disappointed it wasn’t polyam...I wish it was clearer bc of that. but otherwise it was fine #like. solidly developed in depth character is just as/more important to me overall #but also why'd [redacted] have to leave....nooo :( #also spider on the cover!!! i only noticed that at the end of that book sjdghsf #queer books #aromantic books #bisexual books

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

falling in love is great i guess but it doesn't hold up to a good story

#this is supposed to be that sex is great meme but i made it aro #whatever #save me tv shows movies games audiobooks and novels #save me a good story save me

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

it's so wild to me to see cameron monaghan in all those really cool roles bc all i see, and the first thing i knew him as, is bob andrews from the three investigators movies in '07 and '09 that i was obsessed with at age 11. i distinctively remember him being super awkward and wearing a huge backpack that was so heavy he fell over trying to put it on lmao

#i talk #he was like 14 at the time but honestly looks and sounds 8 to me #he was always my favorite from the books and i read those non stop over and over again #still read them every now and then today and the audiobooks are great too #didnt like the personality they gave him in the movies bc in the books hes smart & bookish & calm & responsible but also v cool & social #and not awkward and “weird” AND hes blonde!! and he has glasses!! where are the glasses in the movie ??? #i love him in all those current roles like i dont actively watch any but i see pics and gifs and its so great #seeing what hes achieved since then and all (and the other two from the movies didnt do anything after) #i love it but its also very funny to me #i wouldnt call the movies good but theyre very enjoyable to watch for me and honestly id recommend them too lol #but maybe not that interesting if you dont know the books ? idk #i was so surprised to see him as joker in gotham years later and then ofc fallen order

[13eyond13]

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#here's some of the classics on that list i have beef with btw: #i have tried to read A Confederacy of Dunces several times and it's funny but it's also so cringe and Ignatius is so obnoxious #that i find it too difficult to finish like i just feel depressed and bad for everybody around him too much #i tried reading Infinite Jest like a decade ago and i got like 200 pages in and i remember thinking it felt like #such a slog the entire time because he's just so gd wordy and also i stopped liking DFW after i heard the abuse allegations against him #frankenstein i didnt read that long ago but i just remember finding it so boring for some reason?? i feel i might need to read it again #dracula ngl i feel like im cheating a bit saying ive completely read it because i loved the beginning and then HATED so much of the rest #the characters were just so boring and melodramatic hahaha i just liked the part where jonathan was doing a travel diary #and trapped in the castle tbh and after that i skimmed quite a bit #i almost flipped my shit when i saw ender's game on there because I ALWAYS mix it up with ready player one by ernest cline #which i bought the audiobook of a while back and hated every minute of it i dont think its good at all #but it wasnt that so phew my faith in this list is somewhat restored #i read most of the first game of thrones book and was disappointed tbh maybe because id seen the show already #so i was like 'this feels almost exactly the same except worse?' because i'd been expecting it to give me more depth and insight #into the characters but instead it felt exactly the same and i still didnt love any of the characters enough to feel attached to them #also i am fully aware me not personally liking or vibing with a book doesnt mean it doesnt deserve to be considered great btw #but i think if youre gonna be like me and force yourself to go through a bunch of lists like this very seriously then you also need to just #let yourself be like 'yeah not for me' without feeling too bad about it sometimes too #often times i dont particularly love the classics or 'important books' but at the same time #i still feel like im getting more out of reading them than just grabbing the newest hyped up books that also dont do anything for me #maybe not in a 'wow i loved reading this' way but in like a #'i now have first-hand knowledge of this thing that is so influential / so frequently referenced' #or 'this challenged me and i feel like i did a mental/emotional workout or gave me some new food for thought' #or 'made me more aware of what gaps in my knowledge and reading skills and what my tastes are too' #sort of way... #it really just depends on what you're reading for and why and what you're hoping to get out of it a lot of the time maybe #it's like the homework i give myself to go through these lists that i also intersperse with the stuff i read more just for fun #p

[fablecore]

ahhh i'm so euphoric... and very impressed by how fast you've devoured these books! i'm still at the beginning of braiding sweetgrass and only halfway through metropolis (after spending, like, a year reading it on and off... ah well we slow readers deserve representation too...)

when i finally finish these books, i plan to try paper houses by dominique fortier (tr. rhonda mullins), a semi-nonfiction (?) novel about emily dickinson that reconstructs her life through her letters and writing, and we are bellingcat, which is an autobiography about the eponymous internet detectives.

previous nonfictions i really liked are crying in h mart by michelle zauner (korean food, trauma, grief, love, more korean food), and beyond words by carl safina (elephants, wolves, orcas <3)

#letters #literature #i'll try to find an audiobook of braiding sweetgrass! i really like the first chapter too. the great lakes peoples myth of skywoman and #'humans are the little sibling of creation - having the least experience with how to live and the most to learn' #contrasting it with the christian belief that man was cast out of paradise into this sinful world and we must toil to show god how #good we are until we finally die and return to paradise (which we can never know on earth because we are Too Sinful) #really puts humanity's broken relationship with the planet in perspective doesn't it

[mejomonster]

I am on the hunt for danmei audiobooks to just listen to in the background while working and practice my chinese. Bilibili usually has some audiobooks posted. I found a murder mystery one a few weeks ago that had a ‘suspected’ murderer flirting with the cop (very Light x L vibes but you know much more flirtatious) and it was written simple enough to follow fairly easily. I thought I favorited it, but I can’t find it at the moment. I’m a bit sad about that, I really liked that audiobook ToT

I could in theory just listen to the absolute pit of dmbj audiobooks, surely that would improve my chinese (but it sure would be horror-tomb-raiding oriented vocabulary lol). I’m also listening to the huai xiao hai (the bad kids) novel audiobook (and reading it separately).

It’s a bit frustrating searching right now though. Because the novels on my ‘to read’ list are harder reading level than I can comfortably listen to (Poyun, Qiang Jin Jiu), and the audiobooks I’ve saved on my computer either 1 the files are not working properly (hi mdzs and svsss) or 2 Guardian and Silent Reading which I can follow fine in audio form but I am currently/just finished reading them so I want something a bit fresher. 

#danmei #anyway i guess. any recs? #rant #i should look for SCI mystery audiobooks! if audiobooks exist those would work great #as SCI is written a bit easier than Modu so it should be a good listening-level difficulty #i liked the novel with the suspected murderer flirting with the cop though i wish i could find it :c