Peter here, blogging from Minneapolis. For many years now I have been listening to Tom and Ray, the Magliozzi brothers out of WBUR-FM Radio in Boston. I am not a car guy. I don’t even own a car any longer, but I do recall the joys and heartbreak of owning a used Toyota. My upbringing […]
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Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files
April 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: Boston·Cambridge MA·car talk·Click and Clack·Magliozzi·Pinkwater·Shameless Commerce·stump-the-chumps·WBUR-FM
Beowulf translated and read by the late Seamus Heaney
April 11th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
When I first read Beowulf in college I was immediately captivated. As an English major, and a huge fan of fantasy literature, I was familiar with the story, but until then had never actually read the verse. I had an amazing Medieval Literature professor who set me on a path to which I began devouring […]
Tags: audiobook·BBC·Beowulf·classic·English·epic·grendel·Literature·Medieval·old english·poem·poet·poetry·scholar·Seamus Heaney·student·translation
NPR American Chronicles WWI Marks 100 Years of Hard Lessons
April 7th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
One hundred years. Enough time for many changes to alter forever the lives of people, of nations. Most human lives now last longer. People move faster, learning, working, connecting. Most would argue the quality of our lives is better. Technology is our partner in everything we do, and has the potential to help us in […]
Tags: Alan Seeger·american chronicles·audiobook·Christopher Clark·Eddie Rickenbacker·Frank Buckles·Herbert Hoover·HighBridge·NPR·Pete Seeger·Rachel Martin·Robert K. Massie·Stanley Weintraub·Thomas Sopwith·World War One·WWI
Living and Loving by the Book: Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY
March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
He looks across the spines, which are, for the most part, black and red with all capitalized fonts in silvers and whites. An occasional burst of fluorescence breaks up the monotony. A. J. thinks how similar everything [looks]. Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they […]
Tags: audiobook·bookstores·fiction·Fikry·publishing·scott brick·staff pick·The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Sandrine’s Case: The Mystery of Self
March 27th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In Thomas H. Cook’s most recent novel, Sandrine’s Case (a Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio, read by Brian Holsopple), the first-person narrator, English literature Professor Samuel Madison, is on trial for his life for the premeditated murder of his wife Sandrine, also a professor at tiny Coburn College. Madison contends Sandrine’s death was suicide; the prosecution is certain […]
Tags: audiobook·Brian Holsopple·crime fiction·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·Thomas H. Cook
Seeing Red: Star Wars: Crimson Empire Audio Drama
March 14th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Star Wars: Crimson Empire is a full-cast audio drama adapted from a 6-issue comic mini-series published by Dark Horse. The comic was written by Mike Richardson and Randy Stradley with interior art by Paul Gulacy and covers by Dave Dorman. Issue 1 was released in December 1997. The comic has since been released in a […]
Tags: art·audio drama·audiobook·comic book·comics·crimson empire·dark horse·full cast·radio drama·sci-fi·star wars
The Colorful World of London’s East End in the 1950s: Call the Midwife
March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Incredibly moving, compassionate, shocking, funny, disturbing, and evocative of a time and place forever changed by the upheaval of post-World War II: Call the Midwife is Jennifer Worth’s memoir of her experiences as a midwife-in-training with an Anglican order of nuns in London’s Dockland slums in post-war 1950s. These dedicated nuns had worked amongst the poor […]
Tags: Audiobooks·birth·Call the Midwife·Cockney·East End·Jennifer Worth·London·medical·medicine·memoir·midwifery·PBS
Greed Is Green: McKenzie Funk’s WINDFALL
February 24th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
When I first watched the documentary An Inside Job, which is about the global financial meltdown, I remember my sense of disbelief at the essentially willful self-deception on the one hand and the sheer willingness to put personal gain ahead of massive destruction to the entire world economy on the other. And the world has […]
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In Like a Lion: Smith’s LION PLAYS ROUGH
February 14th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Lion Plays Rough by Lachlan Smith, read by R. C. Bray, is Smith’s second entry in his Leo Maxwell Series, and proves that the series definitely has staying power. Publishers Weekly called the novel a “finely paced mystery” and went on to say it is “full of intelligent plot twists and should appeal to any […]
Tags: audiobook·Bear is Broken·Lachlan Smith·Leo Maxwell·Lion Plays Rough·mysterious press·mystery·narrator·noir·R. C. Bray·thriller