January 2011
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Book 2: Earth (The Book) - The Daily Show
ACTUAL BOOK
As you will see in a few weeks, I’m currently listening to a long Stephen King audiobook, which means I used my limited amount of actual reading time on something a bit more frivolous. Earth (The Book) is the second offering from the staff at the Daily Show (following America (The Book)) and it continues the hilarious narrative as it touches on many of the aspects of life on...
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Book 1: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -...
AUDIOBOOK read by Jonathan Aris & Paula Wilcox
I’m as big of a fan of David Mitchell as one can be after reading two (now three) of his books. Cloud Atlas is in contention for my favorite book of all time and I thoroughly enjoyed Black Swan Green. Through the first 5 or 6 disks of Mitchell’s latest novel, I thought the spell had been broken. I was wrong and by the time the...
Purpose
Let me start with an explanation of what I’m doing here. I’ve been listening to audiobooks on my commute since I took a job around an hour away from home one way in 2007. In that time, I’ve probably listened to over 100 books, but I can’t remember them all and I didn’t bother to write them down. This is a place for me to capture the books I’ve listened to (or...