WHAT have you finished reading recently? Robert Parker’s Blind Spot. Meh.
WHAT are you reading now? I’m listening to the full cast audio of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and reading Eleanor Oiliphant is Completely Fine along with Treacherous Alliance for my serious read. The latter is a history of Israeli, Iranian, and American relations.
WHAT are you reading now? I need to start Paradise Lost by Milton.
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is Audiobooks We’ve Loved, which….should be easy.
1-4: Harry Potter and the Full Cast Audio Editions. These are wonderful.
5. Fan Fiction, Brent Spiner and the cast of Star Trek TNG. Fan Fiction is a silly novel ‘inspired’ by Brent Spiner’s experiences with overzealous fans, but the audiobook version of this actually brings in his TNG castmates to voice their past selves, and it’s brilliant. Reading the book when you can hear Patrick Stewart and Martina Sirtis is a travesty.
6. “A Christmas Carol” read by Sir Patrick Stewart. He even makes Christmas bell noises.
7. Woke Up this Morning, Michael Imperioli & Steve Schrippa. An oral history of The Sopranoes. Oh!
8. The Glory of their Times, Paul Ritter. Interviews with guys who played baseball professionally in the 1920s and 1930s.
9. Cold as Hell. Roger Clark, the mocap and voice actor for Arthur Morgan in RDR2, here does the voice artisty for a cowboy who died too nasty to go to heaven but too good to go to the other place. So, he’s given a black badge and told to rid the earth of nasty nephilim like vampires. Fun dark western fantasy.
10. Anything Wil Wheaton does, but especially Redshirts, Masters of Doom, and Ready Player One.
Reading Freely 
Stewarts reading of A Christmas Carol was phenomenal.
Yes! Have you seen him in the film version of ACC?
Ah yeah! He’s brilliant! He’s great in everything, but especially A Christmas Carol.
I did watch it. I liked the Muppet Christmas Carol more to be honest 🙂
A Christmas Carol read by Patrick Stewart is my favourite version! Fan Fiction and Woke Up This Morning sound interesting! I loved reading Red Shirts but I’ve not listened to the audiobook.
Woke up this Morning had the added attraction of featuring interviews with other Sopranos alum. 🙂
I love this idea of using a bookish meme for the opening! Might steal it for some of my posts 😀 I can totally relate to each of the emotions hah. I have heard about the full cast audiobook of Harry Potter, and people are raving about it. So glad you are enjoying the audiobooks! I definitely love audiobooks, thank you for sharing these ones!
They’re the best audio productions I’ve encountered, to be honest. More like full audio dramas.
Adding them to my audiobooks TBR!
What an amazing list, Stephen. I hadn’t heard of Fan Fiction before, but now I need to check it out. Loved TNG. I’ve been meaning to read A Christmas Carol as narrated by Stewart. Thanks for the reminder. Appreciate you sharing and visiting my blog.
Oh, you may love Fan Fiction, then. Most of the TNG staff voice their own characters.
That’s a great meme.
I’ll have to look up Patrick Stewart’s version of A Christmas Carol. It sounds awesome.
Thank you for stopping by earlier.
As I remember it’s part of Audible’s subscriber library, though that may have changed given that it’s been two years!
Yes, anything with Wil Wheaton. Ready Player One is my favorite audiobook of all times. And narrated by him, I just listened to Lock In, by Scalzi
The only Wheaton audible job I’ve not enjoyed was the Scalzi title on androids and electric sheep. It’s the only one I’ve ever asked Audible for a refund on: I was just not into it at all.