#good news: audiobook!!!

[andromedaexists]

there's an audiobook shaped email in my inbox but that'll have to wait for tomorrow because i don't know if i can handle listening to the words i wrote right now

[grimviolin]

I commend my soul to any god who can find it

[flickeringflame216]

blessings roll call! add on in the tags if you so wish <3

[verdigrispatina]

I've mostly experienced Discworld through the audiobooks but recently I've been buying print copies of my favorites to have for referencing and loaning to friends and WOW, there's a lot of textual and visual quirks that don't carry over to the audiobooks!

The biggest ones I think are when characters' accents are written into the text and Death's dialogue being in a gothic font, but I'm skimming through Soul Music right now and just shouted because I noticed that Imp's dialogue always has extra L's because he's from Llamedos. That's such a funny small touch, I love it

If anybody has any favorite visual gags/quirks in the Discworld books, or just jokes that may not work in an audio format, please share!

[fictionadventurer]

Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[flintandpyrite]

Has someone already written about how Breq and Mercy of Kalr are both disabled, in different directions? Mercy of Kalr without ancillaries now lacks the tools to interact with its world. It’s powerful but unable to effect change on its environment directly. It’s effectively a brain in a jar, paralyzed and almost completely reliant on its relationship with its soldiers to perform its function. And Breq/Justice of Toren One Esk who once had the parallel processing power capable of independently operating literally thousands hands now finds herself operating on one squishy fallible human brain. How could I have missed that? She asks herself about five times in the final act of Ancillary Justice. Talk about a traumatic brain injury. And they can’t fix or complete each other the way Mercy of Kalr brings up in their first meeting, no matter how much the Mercy longs for it. But they can be allies. I like that.

[dee-in-the-sky]

I’ve hit Geographical Infodump Time in my Silmarillion audiobook and it’s great because it’s so well done you can see a map form in your head in real time .

But you accidentally zone out for ten minutes and then go “oh what’s going on now? Ah ok still rivers 🤣

[procrastiel]

Bless this man and his family. Such a pure and kind soul. What an absolute pleasure just to be able to listen to him.

The way he talks about himself, the craft, and the strike… it gives me hope and inspires me immensely.

PS: can’t wait to see him in a musical! 😂

[xserpx]

Started listening to the Colour of Magic audiobook read by Colin Morgan and it's sooo Merlin-y I love it! It's also been an age since I reread CoM/LF, and having just finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for this month's book club it's quite fun to compare Adams' and Pratchett's similar and yet so different styles.

[artificial-condition]

I’m going to Perish I’ve started a reread of murderbot but with the audiobooks and oh. Oh boy. Oh geez Louise. Oh gosh. Oh my god

[leejeann]

Sometimes I go a year with hardly reading anything and then I somehow read a fanfic long enough to be three novels in a trenchcoat in like 3 days, and I'm just sitting here like so uh hey brain, can we do that more often???

[spock-adoodledoo]

oh my god i just finished the dark forest finally. 7/10 i suppose, i went through the first half or so of the book being really annoyed by luo ji but also enjoying the chapters where he shows up because unfortunately he was entertaining. still don't understand the imaginary girlfriend thing, it just feels like he needs someone to protect from the world which like ??? ok sure i guess, it just rubs me the wrong way personally. for the second half and especially the end i became luo ji's number one defender it's fine. for the rest, holy crap—the droplet, the microcosm of the universe on those runaway ships, the wallfacer project, luo ji drawing from rey diaz's plan, the attitude of the world towards him, the entire theory... wow

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

The thing about reading the wheel of time is that you get through it and then you just kinda want to read it again from the beginning. And then again. And again. Like this, ya know, huge endlessly repeating cycle. Like, imagine a wheel-

[pikkish]

What’s your favourite part about writing and are there any particular tropes or genres you prefer?

Favorite part about writing is being able to cause emotion. I absolutely LOVE it when I write something and people respond just to say how it made them feel. The more viscerally gut-wrenching, the better. I just wanna make people feel things, yknow?

for tropes and genres, I try not to be too biased. Tropes are just tools for making a story, and genres are just colors of paint, or particular flavors. A skilled writer can make any trope into a good story, and any genre appealing. Likewise, a bad writer can make any trope or genre boring. So I try to base whether or not I like a story more on how well it's constructed and written, rather than just what tropes and genres apply to it.

That said, of course, certain tools can be more fun to use, and certain flavors appeal more than others. I like anger being presented as a good thing, or at least an acceptable thing, rather than something that needs to be suppressed or gotten over. I like characters who are undeniably and unshakably good despite having every reason to turn evil. Some internal or emotional conflict is fine, of course, necessary even, but I like it when they know who they are and what they want, and their bigger problems are figuring out how to get it. No particular preference for setting, fantasy, scifi, historical, modern day, it's all fine, but I tend to shy away from romance for romance's sake stories, and/or normal guy's real life normal problems stories- I like a bit more action and adventure. I'm sure there are other things, but those are the major ones off the top of my head.

[thesolarsyst3m]

I’ve been missing reading fablehaven.

Maybe I’ll get it on audible so I can actually listen to it whenever I want & so it’s a little more accessible for me.