Summer Travel Audiobooks
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queensthiefSchool is out, or almost out, and that means ROAD TRIPS. FAMILY road trips
Do you have any travel plans? What audiobooks do you recommend for long trips?
Please note if the book is suitable or not for all ages, and if any dogs die.
Do you have any travel plans? What audiobooks do you recommend for long trips?
Please note if the book is suitable or not for all ages, and if any dogs die.
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Date: 5/22/10 01:33 pm (UTC)(The embarrassing thing is that while other people have told me it's good, I haven't listened to it yet. I'm too afraid the voices the actress does for the characters will clash with the voices in my head.)
Our family tries to keep the road trip part of the summer to a minimum, so we're vacationing at a little resort an hour away from home. Not much call for audiobooks there...
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Date: 5/22/10 10:24 pm (UTC)Oh, wait, maybe, um,...I guess maybe you didn't mean it that way?
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Date: 5/22/10 11:53 pm (UTC)I like that!
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Date: 5/22/10 10:42 pm (UTC)And I'm going to post and immediately delete another reply to your comment with the info on Trainspotting and the headline "Spoiler," so it will show up in your mail and you can decide whether to read it or not.
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Date: 5/22/10 10:46 pm (UTC)maybe I should get a non-disapproving Sir Percy icon...
Date: 5/22/10 02:52 pm (UTC)Of those listed on the page, I would recommend The Scarlet Pimpernel, Story of the Treasure Seekers, and The Secret Garden especially.
Re: maybe I should get a non-disapproving Sir Percy icon...
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Date: 5/22/10 06:03 pm (UTC)thank you so much!
I'm not an audiobook person. I hate people reading to me because I read very fast and the accents always bug me.
...well he didn't say much
Date: 5/23/10 03:22 am (UTC): )
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Date: 5/22/10 07:54 pm (UTC)Fiction... I laughed so hard at Alexander McCall Smith's Prof. Von Igelfeld series (begins with PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS, but THE FINER POINTS OF SAUSAGE DOGS* is the funniest) that I nearly drove off the road.
My kids liked all of the above, but they are a)teens and b)weird like me.
I've also enjoyed the recent recordings of Charles Stross's Laundry series: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES and THE JENNIFER MORGUE. The kids really liked them, too, but I'll confess several passages embarrassed *me*, so they may be teen-friendly but not mom-friendly.
*no dead dogs, precisely, but one rather horrendously (if hilariously), ummm, anatomically re-arranged dachshund
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Date: 5/23/10 01:50 am (UTC)And, not family friendly, but I love the audiobooks of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
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Date: 5/27/10 11:57 pm (UTC)free audio books!
Date: 6/1/10 11:28 am (UTC)http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/06/01/free-books-for-summer-sync-shares-2-ya-audiobooks-each-week/