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I am listening to Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea as a german audiobook version.

It was strange in the beginning but now it is great. A mixture of the historic fact and the the search for the ship.

I'm listening to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Nearly finished and will move on to Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence M. Krauss which will be a very different book.

To Taste Temptation It's quite interesting. I've just started listing to audio-books but find they are a great way to make the time pass at work when I'm doing less than stimulating activities.

I've just finished The Mistress Of Nothing by Kate Pullinger and am moving on to The Lemur by Benjamin Black

I've had a wonderful run of great audiobooks lately. Right now I'm listening to When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle, one of my favorite authors. Very much enjoying it so far. Very recently finished The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer, excellent! Others recently enjoyed on audio: A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson reads his own books!) and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón -- awesome.

Now listening to T.C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done, awesome so far. It's about the conflict between park service biologists and other experts and some local folks about how to responsibly conserve the wildlife in the channel islands off the coast of southern California.

I'm with Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey

Been doing a re-read via audio book of Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan.

Just started with

Just finished T.C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done on audio, excellent, the reader was just as edgy as the author :) Now listening to Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw - quite amusing and performed by multiple actors, including Amy Irving as Joan.

Just finished Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, a comic novel set in China featuring a French speaking Chinese Freudian psychoanalyst.

Now on Murder Being Once Done..a mystery by Ruth Rendell

Feodora wrote: "Just started with "
I just finished.

The plot was intersting and I like the idea of having a deamon. I would like to have a wolf or a cat like Bagihra. As well I like the way how well known "facts" are interpreted diffent way.

The Shadow Rising, by robert Jordan.

Great Expectations. It's a Librivox recording, and pretty good.

I've recently listened to The Paris Wife by Paula McLain which I really enjoyed...it is about Ernest Hemmingway's first wife.
Now I'm listening to Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda and need to finish it soon as it is due back at the library!

Just finished , which was wonderful, read by Barack Obama. Just starting by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. A few months ago I listened to his book , which was incredible. A great one to read on audio!

Dot wrote: "I'm with Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey"

Dot -- how did that book turn out? Thumbs up? I tried to read "Theft" last year but couldn't figure it out. I'm not sure I speak Australian!

Judy wrote: "Dot wrote: "I'm with Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey"

Dot -- how did that book turn out? Thumbs up? I tried to read "Theft" last year but couldn't f..."

I did enjoy it...it is historical and a lot of it takes place in Europe and the US. You might like this one more.

Now I am listening to Trespass by Rose Tremain...modern times in London and in France.

I've just finished "Bernice bobs her hair" by F Scott Fitzgerald, am half way through "A Stir of Echoes" and have "The Distant Hours" by Kate Morton to start

I've just finished Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré....not sure what to listen to next.

I've actually got two audio's going at the moment.

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss in the evenings with Elengil.

Ashes Ashes by Jo Tregiarri on my daily commute

Rothfuss. Lucky you. I loved his first book.

I'm giving my first 'non-Fleming' Bond book a go... Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

I'm reading The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith on audio right now. Next up is "The Right Attitude to Rain", same author, different series.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford

I'm doing the 666 challenge (36 books, one from each of 6 six countries in each of 6 regions of the world), so I'm tryingCollected Fictions. Before that I tried an audio of The Death of Ivan Ilych from audible.com, but the narrator was so awful (Bill DeWees), I downloaded the book on my nook instead.

bookczuk wrote: "Rothfuss. Lucky you. I loved his first book."

This one was just as good, though it felt like it had more of a cliff hanger ending. Once again, I'm left waiting while the next book gets written.

But I totally recommend it if you stumble across a copy.

I'm currently listening to the eleventh Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher.

Just started in the car.
I finished

Just finished One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson and am starting Portrait Of A Spy by Daniel Silva

I'm listening to The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith. This is number 3, I think, in the series about Isabel Dalhousie. I just love her character, and the audio version has the lovely Scottish accents :)

Dot wrote: "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford"

That was a lovely book!

Judy wrote: "Dot wrote: "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford"

That was a lovely book!

Oh, I loved this one also!

Feodora wrote: " Just started in the car.

After finishing that i heard "Who killed Lord Edgeware" and now I started "The Murder at the Orient Express"

Feodora wrote: "Feodora wrote: " Just started in the car.

After finishing that i heard "Who killed Lord Edgeware" and now I started "The Murder at the Orient Express""

That reminds me of putting Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on to my i-pod when travelling...I kept falling asleep and I never did find out why they didn't ask Evans :-)

Right now I'm vegging out with
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday...a nice 'comfort read'.

Loved the BORGES JORGE LUIS that I just finished. Now am about 1/3 of the way into 1984 and am loving it so far. Creepy vision of a future I'm glad we aren't living in yet!

I'm in England with The Language of Bees
The author has taken the character of Sherlock Holmes and given him a wife and long lost son...

Feodora wrote: "Feodora wrote: " Just started in the car.

After finishing that i heard "Who killed Lord Edgeware" and now I started "The Murder at the Orient Express""

Just finished

Now I started Mond über der Eifel: Autorenlesung from a famous german author who writes nice crimestories taking place in a region called Eifel. Somewhere between Rheinbach und Monschau

Feodora wrote: "Now I started Mond über der Eifel: Autorenlesung from a famous german author who writes nice crimestories taking place in a region called Eifel. Somewhere between Rheinbach und Mons..."

Are they available in English translation?

I've just started an Agatha Christie called "The Labours of Hercules"

I finished listening to The Right Attitude to Rain and The Careful Use of Compliments and am now onto The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday, all in the Isabel Dalhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith. Yep, I'm loving them!

I am thoroughly enjoying Pyramids by Terry Pratchett while riding the bus home from work :)

Dark Gold by Christine Feehan I've read the book before but I'm having fun re-exploring the series through audiobook.

I just finished Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (wonderful!) and have started Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary -- which is so far fascinating.

7 months later and I'm still listening to Christine Feehan. This time Spirit Bound. Unfortunately this is the last audio book of hers that my library has, going to have to find another author soon.

Currently enjoying The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - a book about Ernest Hemingway, his first wife, and their life together.

I always have an audiobook going in the car. Right now it's Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation by Chris Turner.

Still enjoying Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

I'm currently listening to The Essential Agatha Christie Stories: Agatha Christies Best Short Sleuths Crack Twenty-Two Famous Cases in the car, with at least 3 hrs/day commute during the week, it should go by fast.

Wow Kim, that's a heck of a commute. Is it 3 hours round trip?

I'm listening to right now. Very rich fantasy story. Found myself just sitting in the car in front of my house last night so I could finish a scene.

While on a trip, my husband and I just "read" David Baldacci's The Sixth Man on an audio book. Like all of Baldacci's novels, it was riveting, but we weren't impressed with the female reader. She kept changing accents on the different women characters. Sometimes she had a southern accent for a particular character, then she'd change it. It was annoying trying to figure out who was talking especially when two female characters were interacting. The male reader was excellent, however. I guess I'll have to re-read it for all the nuances I lost in the audio book.