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[alicebentley]

Yesterday I meant to start out the new year (yay solstice!) with posting about the book I was reading. OK, listening to, which I nowadays count as reading.

It's Mark of the Fool Vol 5, and I'm enjoying it and the rest of the series, but like so much of what I read these days I can't unconditionally recommend it. Written by J. M. Clark, narrated by Travis Baldree, this is firmly in the sub-genre of LitRPG, a category I didn't even know existed until last year. Good characters, reasonable world building, but it very much completely on purpose feels like watching your friend's Dungeons and Dragons game.

AND I was going to drop in a pic of the cover art, only to find that I'm unclear on how to grab that image off of my Pictures folder and drop it in here. And that it's much later than I thought it was, which explains why this minor task is challenging me. So instead of doubling down I'm going to launch with what's here and go to sleep. My 4:00am alarms and another 10 hours of running the ink jet printer await me!

Comments

[minnehaha]

I wish I liked audiobooks more. They can be fine for listening to while doing chores, say, but I am not adept at browsing in an audiobook, and I browse books all the time. I look for bits I want to read or relish again, etc.

K. [pix are hard on DW]

[alicebentley]

I like audiobooks for background while I'm doing other things, like the repetitive model building I was doing at work. I wouldn't choose to listen to a new book I thought I would really like, but there are hundreds of action-adventure books I have a mild interest in that I'm fine having interrupted continually. it's enough entertainment to cover what would otherwise be a pretty boring task.

If I find a book or series that I enjoy more, I queue it up to re-listen to the whole thing while doing not-so-interrupted tasks (like yard work).