Forgotten Classics: September 2008

... featuring great authors and stories that should be better known. A little about the authors and their writing, with samples. Yes, forgotten classic literature in audiobook format.

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Books in the Earbuds

Julie's bookshelf: listening

The Odyssey

by Homer

I saw that Scott and Jesse (and others) will be discussing the Odyssey on SFFaudio sometime soon, a few books at a time. This piqued my interest and I began listening to the LibriVox free version. I have read the Odyssey before, though I wo...

tagged: currently-reading, 2012, classic, listening, and librivox

The Engines of God

by Jack McDevitt

Picked up this review copy via SFFaudio. Looking forward to hearing the story, especially after reading Orson Scott Card's column containing a tribute to both the author and this series.

tagged: 2012, audio-book, fiction, review-copy, sci-fi-fantasy, sffaudio, list...

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'll be beginning this in the New Year, as part of my personal reading challenge for 2012.

This translation was recommended by two people and I'm lucky the library has it.

UPDATE AND FINAL
I read about 140 pages o...

tagged: classics-challenge-2012, classic, 2012, faith, fiction, foreign-lands,...

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9.28.2008

Agatha Christie

9.17.2008

Episode 54: The Wonder Stick, finale

9.13.2008

Episode 53: The Wonder Stick, chapters 22-24

9.03.2008

Episode 52: The Wonder Stick, ch. 20-21

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