Audiobooks discussion

Starting the month off with a nonfiction: Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef. Solid story with good narration, though not sure it might start seeming similar after a few destinations.

I'm starting off with The Hobbit. I've never read it before, so this listen will be my first.

I'm starting off with Fallow and am pretty certain I'm going to love it.

Kristie wrote: "I'm starting off with The Hobbit. I've never read it before, so this listen will be my first."

I believe it was the Carter Administration for me.

Ha, ha, for me it was probably still JFK era when I read The Hobbit! My family moved from a rural library to Philadelphia. The children's room alone was huge! I think I actually remember finding it on a shelf there. I know I enjoyed the runes inside the cover that were a kind of code and trying to write them. I loved fantasy as a kid but the only things out there were Narnia and a few others.

I posed a question in a different group about specific memories of books - like where you were when you read them (or listened to them in our case.) Mostly, they blend together and sometimes I don't even remember the book at all. But I will never forget where I was walking when I was listening to The Martian and found out that someone back on Earth realized he was there.

I'm hanging in there with Ivanhoe. It may be better read and I may switch. I do like the historical fiction though.

I'm definitely late to the game. I was more of a Black Beauty, Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH kind of kid. I don't know that I was ever exposed to the likes of The Hobbit as a kid. Neither of my parents were fantasy readers. I don't really remember seeing them read much at all. I was the biggest reader in the house. I DO remember a friend's mom reading a Stephen King book when I was about 13 and telling me I was too young for it and knowing that my mom didn't really pay much attention to what I read. lol

Edit: I also read Narnia as an adult. I actually saw the movie first.

It took four months of running errands, and other, in the car, but we finely finished A People’s Hisory of the United States: 1492 - Present which I learned about in this group. We appreciated that it focused on the people, like the title, and not government. It would make an excellent companion piece to a standard college textbook, although the students would groan over adding another textbook. Apparently, the author, Howard Zinn, is a somewhat controversial figure.

We just started another very long audiobook, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism which at 35 hours might takes a few years of errands to finish. It was my companions choice.

It took four months of running errands, and other, in the car, but we finely finished A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present which I learned about in this group. We appreciated that it focused on the people, like the title, and not the government. It would make an excellent companion piece to a standard college textbook, although the students would groan over adding another textbook. Apparently, the author, Howard Zinn, is a somewhat controversial figure.

We just started another very long audiobook, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, which at 37 hours might take a few years of errands to finish. It was my spouses choice.

I was a Nancy Drew fan which explains my lifelong weakness for mysteries. Whenever there are crossword puzzle clues or trivia questions dealing with The Hobbit I'm totally useless.

Fran wrote: "I was a Nancy Drew fan which explains my lifelong weakness for mysteries. Whenever there are crossword puzzle clues or trivia questions dealing with The Hobbit I'm totally useless."

I also loved Nancy Drew and continue to read mysteries & thrillers.

Kathleen wrote: "It took four months of running errands, and other, in the car, but we finely finished A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present which I learned about in this group. We app..."

I feel like focusing more on the people would make it more interesting, relatable, and memorable. Wish he had one that continued from Clinton through current day.

I finished up Dream State yesterday- it was kind of weird - not sure what to think - had never heard of it until I saw it on one of the goodreads challenges lists

Regarding Nancy Drew, Harriet Adams' daughter, Camilla, was someone I knew as a child.

If you want to listen to a smooth, interesting mystery; please try the book I just finished last night: Kills Well with Others

Announcement - GR has added the option to rate books by half and even quarter stars, after insisting for years they would never do that! I don't know if it was rolled out to everyone, but I have it, and I was able to go back to earlier books, touch the rating and it showed an option to move it to 3.25, 3.5, 3.75, etc.