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Work has kept me busy with not a whole lot of time for much else! I did catch the last period of Game 5 between the Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights. I'm very happy that the Capitals won! Congrats to them!!
Work has kept me busy with not a whole lot of time for much else! I did catch the last period of Game 5 between the Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights. I'm very happy that the Capitals won! Congrats to them!!
Yay!! SYNC is back!! If you are not familiar with this program, you can download two audiobooks FOR FREE every week for the next 7 weeks. The only catch is that you have to download them before they are replaced with a new pair every Thursday at 7:00 a.m. EST. Once you download them, you can listen at your leisure and they are yours to keep forever!
Here is some info on this week's offerings:
Most people would prefer to explain themselves than to have judgment fall on them based on other people’s views. How often do we pause in our lives, however, to consider whether our own judgments of others might be unfair?
This week, our teen title, named by the Young Adult Library Association’s as among the Best Fiction for Young Adults in 2018, gives a steampunk riff to the Peter Pan story. EVERLAND, by Wendy Spinale, and narrated by Fiona Hardingham and Steve West for Scholastic Audiobooks, puts us in a postwar London where only children have survived deadly disease. A German Captain wants to snatch as many of them as he can, while a gang of boys led by Pete and sharpshooter Bella take cover underground until they come to the aid of Gwen, who is searching for her kidnapped siblings. Hardingham and West perform their roles with all the drama anyone would hope to hear, making this a fine introduction for new audiobook listeners and a reward for the experienced. If you get hooked, you might move on to the sequel, Umberland, which will be narrated by a full cast.
We’ve paired a novel written during World War I with this. Edgar Wallace’s THE JUST MEN OF CORDOVA, read for Naxos AudioBooks by Bill Homewood, recounts a complex tale of revenge for wartime offenses and personal crimes—as the men seeking revenge have judged them. Of course, the men who judge might also be guilty of similar crimes, mightn’t they? Listeners will need to pay close attention as the story twists through countries, cultures, and occasions for wrongdoing, dynamically led by the narrator's storytelling. It seems that judgment may be easy to make but requires the judge to find some consistency from one judgment to the next. Edgar Wallace was fascinated by morality, and his stories, for film as well as in books, explore morals in surprising ways. Did you know he wrote the movie script for King Kong?
To help direct attention locally to SYNC, this week also features a real-time Twitter chat with narrator Bill Homewood. Come prepared Monday, 11 June, at Noon Eastern Time, to ask him about his work, training, preparation to to bring THE JUST MEN OF CORDOVA or any of his many other audiobooks to voice, or whatever makes you curious about audiobooks or this title. The chat will last one hour, via @audiobookSYNC (the twitter address to which you can post your questions) and with the hashtag #sync18chat (be sure to use that so we recognize that your tweet is related to this event).
by Wendy Spinale
(Everland, Book #1)
The Just Men of Cordova
by Edgar Wallace
(The Four Just Men, Book #3)
(Everland, Book #1)
by Edgar Wallace
(The Four Just Men, Book #3)
Recap: Last Week On The Blog
Wednesday Book Review: 3 out of 5 stars for The Deep by Nick Cutter
Thursday Audiobook Review: 5 out of 5 stars for Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens
Friday Audiobook Review: 3 out of 5 stars for Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett
What books have you added to your shelves this week? If you are also participating in either of these memes, please leave me the link to your blog post in the comments so that I can come and drool over all your goodies!
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Sorry work has been so busy. I've been seriously slacking in picking up Sync audiobooks. Hope this week is amazing!
ReplyDeleteI've been watching new episodes of shows I enjoy and reading a lot of books, mainly cozies and thrillers. And enjoying an occasional nap. LOL It's really heating up here and the pool keeps calling my name too:)
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I watched that game, too. It was a good one. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Oh I didn't even know about sync! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a wonderful week.
Tina @ As Told By Tina
I've totally been downloading the Sync titles every week. I think I missed the first week only. I was bummed when Windows 10 had a huge update and I had to re-download Overdrive and it didn't keep my old Sync audiobooks. Of course I still have the original files, but they're now expired for uploading them to Overdrive. There were some on there too that I really wanted to listen to and hadn't. Anyway, I hope you have a fabulous week!
ReplyDeleteTressa @ Wishful Endings