Snowpocalypse and other things

[jeriendhal]

Took me two hours to get home, which amounted to Getting out of the Baltimore: 45 minutes. Traveling down I-95 to BJ's to stock up on essentials: 45 minutes. Drive home and unload car: 1/2 hour. Already took tomorrow off thank goodness. Turned out Monday no one showed up for work.

Have had no time for pleasure reading, including secoh's story, which means I'm a shirker as well as pathetic.

but I did finish listening to a couple of audiobooks recently...


The Moor, by Laurie King: Mary Russell is abruptly summoned by her husband Sherlock Holmes to the moors made famous in The Hound of the Baskervilles to investigate a ghostly coach that seems to be leaving murder in its wake.

A good listen, though the actual investigation part is fairly secondary to a portrayal of English country life in the post-WW1 era.


The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchet: Commander Vimes of the Watch realizes his worst nightmare as he's forced by Vetinari to be a diplomat.

I already liked this book, but the audio version had me LMAO at various points, as the reader was quite skilled at the various Uberveltian accents, from Romanian vampires in comortable cardigan to pseudo-Nazi werewolves to the Igor clan.

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

You mean "Laurie R. King", not "Laurie K. Hamilton". The first writes the Mary Russell books; the second writes the Anita Blake books.

Though a crossover would be...interesting.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I do not want to think about that. Shudder.

Anyway corrected.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

God don't feel bad about not reading any of my crap. Especially when you're stuck in real life dramas with the weather and all!

[tamhavik.livejournal.com]

Ah! Another Vimes book ^^ I thought I had read them all, but this one is unfamiliar.
My boyfriend is a big fan of the Discworld series and especially Vimes. So he had me read all the books with him in it to broaden my reading (I had already read a few Discworld books here and there in the series, but none with Vimes)

So anyway, I'll be looking for that one and it's on my to-read-very-soon-list ^^;

If I can find an audio version I'll keep this in mind too that this one is good.

[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

It took me ten hours to get home! But then I was also coming from New York (and it should have only taken me seven hours to get home, so three extra hours is not bad. Especially when you factor in the whole Snowbank, meet Car. Car, meet Snowbank. Snowbank, destroy my bumper!)

Thud! Audio book is really good. I enjoyed it immensely. Well, the parts I listened to. Good Omens is a brilliantly done audio book as well, and that one I've listened to all the way through.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I have to find Thud! at my library now. If it's done by the same reader, then THIS IS NOT MY COW! is going to be epic.

[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

I have yet to get that far! I look forward to it. I think it is by Stephen Briggs or something like that?