#Listening Library

[smart-macademia]

home library so I never have to leave the house 📚

[goodbooksandgoodwine]

Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris | Audiobook Review

Why Did I Listen To Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris? Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris immediately appealed to me. I love YA books that have a camp setting. Also, books about LGBTQ characters! And deconstruction! That is a recipe for a book to rise pretty high up on my TBR list. There’s just something a well-narrated YA contemporary book — especially one I can relate to, as someone who went…

[eccentricreader]

Book Review: Odder by Katherine Applegate

Illustrated by: Charles Santoso Published: September 20, 2022 Category: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Animal, Poetry Age Rating: 8+/Middle Grade Warnings: Realistic Animal Violence Quote: “Something about the way the little pup never settled, something about the way her eyes were always full of questions.” This story is about an otter named Odder and her life before and after a shark…

[thegirlwiththelantern]

2024 YA Books

While there are romances included in this list the books err more towards contemporary and social. Including one which I can’t tell you about, unfortunately, as it has been published through SMP. You can read about the boycott here. ASAP by Axie Oh | 15 / 02 / 24 – HarperTeen New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh’s ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved…

[downthetubes]

America’s “most banned graphic novel”, “Gender Queer, adapted as audiobook

US audio drama producers Listening Library will release a full-cast audiobook production of Gender Queer: A Memoir next month, based on Maia Kobabe’s Alex Award-winning graphic memoir published by Oni Press

US audio drama producers Listening Library will release a full-cast audiobook production of Gender Queer: A Memoir next month, based on Maia Kobabe’s Alex Award-winning graphic memoir published by Oni Press. Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, started this comic to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual. Maia’s acclaimed graphic novel is both an intensely cathartic…

[wutbju]

Wait for it....

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” There is doubtless truth in the poet's assertion, but it is also true that many readers of good poetry and prose gain a great deal from hearing literary works read well. The gain is both aesthetic and intellectual as the listener appreciates more clearly the rhythm, tone, and emphasis of the work he is listening to as well as reading.

The belief that excellent literary recordings offer the student both aesthetic and intellectual stimulation has led to the establishment this year of a listening room for Bob Jones University literature students. Recorded works available include dramas, narrative and lyric poems, short stories, and selections from novels.

Authors represented in the present collection include such poets as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Coleridge, Browning, Keats, and Wallace Stevens; playwrights like Euripides and Shakespeare; and prose writers Poe, Hawthorne, Crane, and Hemingway. The recording artists are among the best interpreters of the present age.

Michael Redgrave, John Gielgud, Anthony, Quayle, Basil Rathbone, Judith Anderson, Pamela Brown, Edith Evans, and many others.  The listening room is equipped with four large study tables, each of which has eight stations. At present there are two turn-tables; eventually two tape recorders will be added to the facilities, making it possible for four recordings to be playing at one time.

The room is intended primarily for students to use during their study time. It will, however, be available for teachers to use during class periods when they wish to lecture on works included in the record collection.

This was not-at-all used by the time the 80s rolled around. But this? ...

It is estimated that the male population on the BJU campus gets at least 25,000 haircuts a year in Greenville. At the rate of $1.75 per haircut, some $38, 750 will be spent at local barber shops by students this school year.

Like this?

[parisoonic]

pals drinking together (hand practice that got out of control)

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Reign (American Royals #4) by Katharine McGee #YARomance #SpeculativeFiction #YoungAdultContemporary #ChickLit #RandomHouse #BookReview #AudiobookReview #NewBooks

The final volume in the #YA #speculativefiction series #AmericanRoyals is out. It wraps up the storylines of Beatrice, Nina, Sam, and Daphne in this fourth volume. #Reign #yacontemporary #YAromance #randomhouse #bookreview #chicklit #bargainsleuth

This review contains spoilers! “A queen’s life hangs in the balance, and her siblings’ decisions—about what to do, and most of all, who to love—could change the course of history. Romance. Duty. Power…only one can triumph in this stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling American Royals series. America’s royal family is in shambles. Queen Beatrice is in a coma and Princess Samantha…

[you-needajelloshot]

dean uses cas as an angelic body pillow and sure it’s a little boring for cas just staring at the ceiling all night, but he’s been alive for a million years so he’s not too fussed. plus he enjoys his having his own personal weighted blanket

and then jack is like oh boy wait until i tell you about audiobooks

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The penisest of tunes.

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[smart-macademia]

the key to surviving grad school (also maybe life but definitely grad school) is to pick a side quest every few months or so. something that brings you joy and that you can get better at over time, independent of whether or not your research or classes are going well. put your need for academic validation to use in a non-academic setting and everything will feel less dire and you will learn you are more than your work

[goodbooksandgoodwine]

Ex Marks The Spot by Gloria Chao | Audiobook Review

Why Did I Listen To Ex Marks The Spot by Gloria Chao? Ex Marks The Spot by Gloria Chao really appealed to me because one, I’ve read almost all of Chao’s previous books — except for one. Two, because I love a good puzzle/treasure hunt. Also, I love second chance romances too. I went with audio because it is one of the easier ways for me to focus and really get through a book lately. Having…

[hellmandraws]

I accidentally got really into X-Men lately, and I'm not immune to... them. 🥺❤️

[qiu-yan]

zhancheng to me is like this:

imagine a scenario in which jiang cheng actually does know quite a lot about lan wangji's tastes: his favorite and least favorite tea flavors, snacks, food, books, music, authors and artists, and so on.....except jiang cheng specifically sought out this information during the 13 year timeskip to make lan wangji miserable.

maybe lan wangji is just publicly A Bitch to him one too many times and jiang cheng finally decides he's had enough. so, for the next few months, jiang cheng spends an inordinate amount of time gradually sussing out everything he can learn about lan wangji's tastes. what kind of tea does he like? what kind of tea does he despise? which authors does he always read? what temperature does he prefer his room to be? what new trends in music does he find completely unbearable? when he passes through a region whose cuisine he hates, which restaurants does he find slightly less intolerable?

and then, the next time there's a discussion conference at lotus pier, jiang cheng weaponizes this knowledge. actually, the next time there's a public event anywhere wherein both jiang cheng and lan wangji are in attendance, jiang cheng weaponizes the fuck out of this knowledge. he makes sure that the tea lan wangji hates the most is served to everyone. he has his disciples buy all the local snacks he knows lan wangji has a preference for, just so lan wangji can't have any. he makes sure lan wangji's room and bed are heated to the exact temperature lan wangji finds just too hot to be comfortable. whenever lan wangji's favorite obscure author releases a new work that gusu lan doesn't think is cultivation-related enough to include in their library, jiang cheng has a bunch of his disciples swoop in and buy as many copies as possible, just so that it takes lan wangji a bit longer to get his hands on a volume. jiang cheng "leaks" to a few minor sect leaders the idea that lan wangji actually does like spicy food, and said minor sect leaders actually believe that information for a full year of hosted visits and public events.

this continues for all 13 years of the timeskip. of course, jiang cheng isn't outstandingly successful in actually making lan wangji miserable, because there are limits to what jiang cheng can actually achieve and what he's actually willing to spend enough time on; realistically, all he's accomplishing is causing lan wangji some minor irritations once in a while. but it's enough for jiang cheng to know that, every time lan wangji has to pass through yunmeng, he's absolutely miserable because jiang cheng has persuaded/paid every musician in the area to play the one song lan wangji hates the most.

jin guangyao, of course, figures out what's going on immediately. but even loyalty to lan xichen isn't going to make him sacrifice potentially useful dirt by putting a stop to jiang cheng's asshole behavior himself, so instead he just decides to watch and wait. he also just finds it really funny. meanwhile, lan wangji, for all 13 of these years, never figures out what's going on. he never figures out why he can't ever find the lanling-style osmanthus cakes he hates slightly less than the rest of lanling cuisine whenever he passes through the area and runs into disciples from yunmeng jiang. when his favorite obscure author releases a new book, he gets in line at the indie bookstore in qinghe he went out of his way to visit, and just doesn't question why everyone in front of him is wearing purple.

postcanon, though....now lan wangji has one hell of a source of insider information (wei wuxian), so the turns are about to get fucking tabled.

[benevolenterrancy]

so I've started reading Journey to the West, and I more or less knew what to expect from Sun Wukong going in, no surprises there. Tripitaka, on the other hand, completely knocked my feet out from under me... I am enchanted