Audio Book of the Month
This is my recommended audio book of the month. Usually one title but sometimes more if it’s hard to choose
By Book Group Librarian on February 10, 2010
February I read some really excellent books and again it was hard to chose just one, so I didn’t. Here are my two favourite audio books for this month: Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals is a riveting exposé which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, company of liars, eating animals, environment, factory farming, jonathan safran foer, karen maitland, non-fiction, the owl killers, vegan, vegetarian
By Book Group Librarian on December 13, 2009
Product Description You might think that helping a friend’s widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband’s corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor. A brutal murder in King’s Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month, Paranormal Social Club | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, felix castor, mike carey, Paranormal Social Club
By Book Group Librarian on November 12, 2009
Shivers, obsession, sleepless nights—these are the results not of one of the milder poisons that novice food-taster Yelena must learn during her harrowing job training but of newcomer Snyder’s riveting fantasy that unites the intelligent political focus of George R.R. Martin with a subtle yet potent romance. Through a stroke of luck, Yelena escapes execution [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month, Paranormal Social Club | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, fantasy, magic, maria v snyder, paranormal, Paranormal Social Club, poison study, romance, valek, yelena
By Book Group Librarian on October 26, 2009
I had the same injury problem this month too and consequently again, I got through quite a few audio books, so again there is more than one favourite for this month – this is becoming a habit lol Rick Riordan – The Widower’s Two-Step (Tres Navarre #2) Product Description Tres Navarre has just hours of [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, jame lee burke, rick riordan, Tom Stechschulte, tres navarre
By Book Group Librarian on September 30, 2009
Due to an unfortunate accident I was incapacitated for a while during which time I got through a lot of audio books, so therefore it was too difficult to choose just one book for the month this month. Here are my favourites for this month: Richard Kadrey – Sandman Slim audio Review “If Simon R. [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month, Paranormal Social Club | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, felix castor, horror, john wyndham, mike carey, paranormal, Paranormal Social Club, the day of the triffids, the night of the triffids, urban fantasy
By Book Group Librarian on August 24, 2009
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham This classic sf novel traces the fate of the world after a comet shower blinds most of the world’s population. The few with sight must struggle to reconstruct society while fighting mobile, flesh-eating plants called triffids. Samuel West’s narration of this powerful and realistic story provides a [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged Audio Book of the Month, john wyndham, the day of the triffids
By Book Group Librarian on December 29, 2008
The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver. This was a surprise choice as I didn’t intend to buy it or listen to it but again I had discovered a narrator that I liked and was searching for other books that he had narrated. The narrator in question is George Guidall who narrated American Gods by Neil [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged american gods, angelina jolie, Audio & eBooks, Audio Book of the Month, christmas presents, denzel washington, george guidall, jeffery deaver, lincoln rhyme, neil-gaiman, the bone collector, the cold moon
By Book Group Librarian on November 30, 2008
My audio book for November is not a new book. However it is the first time I had listened to it on audio and I have to say, it was fantastic. So fantastic in fact that if we had to vote for the audio book of the year then this would probably be it!!! I [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged Audio & eBooks, audio book, audrey niffenegger, the time traveler's wife
By Book Group Librarian on November 1, 2008
In case you don’t know already, let me preface this post by telling you all that I am a BIG Neil Gaiman fan. So it is with great excitement that I have to tell you to run out and buy the audio book version of his latest book – The Graveyard Book. This is one [...]
Posted in Audio Book of the Month | Tagged american gods, Audio & eBooks, neil-gaiman, stardust, the anansi boys, the graveyard book
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