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Release Week: 13 February 2024
Posted on 2024-02-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Whew. Huge week this week. Here we go...
PICKS:
The Book of Love: A Novel By: Kelly Link, read by January LaVoy for Random House -- "In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle."
The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel By: Katherine Arden, read by Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, and Katherine Arden for Random House -- "During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in
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Release Week: 6 February 2024
Posted on 2024-02-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The County Line: A Novel By: Steve Weddle, read by Brian Troxell for Brilliance -- "Life has never been easy for Cottonmouth Tomlin. Raised by an uncle in a hardscrabble Arkansas town, Cottonmouth couldn’t leave fast enough. As a young man, he set out to seek his fortune but was soon caught up in a life of low-level misdeeds, taking him from New Orleans all the way to Honduras. Now he’s back in Columbia County, mourning his uncle and worrying on what to do with the broken-down outlaw camp that
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Release Week: 30 January 2024
Posted on 2024-01-30 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I expected a quiet week, with only 2 titles on my watch list somehow, and that's pretty much what we seem to have found ourselves with. So this week's roundup will have room for a few more "indie" sf/f books than usual...
PICKS:
A Quantum Love Story By: Mike Chen, read by Patti Murin for Harlequin -- "Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except
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Release Week: 23 January 2024
Posted on 2024-01-23 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase, read by Christel Mutombo for Recorded Books -- "Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah’s perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret. The truth claws its way
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Release Week: 16 January 2024
Posted on 2024-01-16 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Tusks of Extinction By: Ray Nayler, read by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir for Spotify -- "Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough
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Release Week: 9 January 2024
Posted on 2024-01-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Cold: A Novel By: Drew Hayden Taylor, read by Wesley French, Lawrence Bayne, Susan Roman, Jani Lauzon, Cara Gee, and Mirphie Kinanga for McClelland and Stewart -- "Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to
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Release Week: 2 January 2024
Posted on 2024-01-02 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Took a while off, and this very quiet week to start the year seems like a nice time to tiptoe back in here. The books that most caught my eye this week:
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay, read by Casey Withoos for Recorded Books -- Published in the UK by W.F. Howes last October, now available in the US. "The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens
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Release Week: 5 September 2023
Posted on 2023-09-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Making one tiny exception from not doing these anymore to mention a new title because if you only look at Audible, you won't find it: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow, read by the author:
https://www.downpour.com/catalog/product/view/id/818082/s/the-internet-con/
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278340-the-internet-con
Here we go:
Read more...When the tech platforms promised a future of “connection,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe, but
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Release Week: 4 July 2023
Posted on 2023-07-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
The API changes protest blackout (absolutely necessary!) broke a several-years streak of posting new audiobook roundups for me here, and I just haven't got back "up" for it, you know? Still, hey, why not, incredibly low effort weekly roundup since this is such an insanely quiet week...
PICKS:
Excavations: A Novel By: Kate Myers, read by Joy Nash for Harper -- "On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It’s a piece of history
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Release Week: 6 June 2023
Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel By: S. A. Cosby, read by Adam Lazarre-White for Macmillan -- "Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is
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