{"id":2755,"date":"2016-01-02T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:45:04","slug":"2015-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2016\/01\/02\/2015-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I discovered downloadable library audiobooks and I also had an Audible membership that helped to expand my audiobook listening.<\/p>\n

Catch-22<\/strong> by Joseph Heller<\/strong> narrated by Trevor White<\/strong> Rated A<\/strong>
\nAn award winning satire of World War II this classic picaresque novel is superbly read by Trevor White. I’ve read this book twice previously and I got very different things from it each time. This time I really started to feel overwhelmed by the horror it all. The war, the insane bureaucracy, the corruption, and the abuse of civilians are all portrayed with vicious black humour but that doesn’t rob it of any of it’s power.<\/p>\n

Dead Girl Walking<\/strong> by Chris Brookmyre<\/strong> narrated by Angus King<\/strong> and Kate Bracken<\/strong> rated A<\/strong>
\nSolid Jack Parlabane novel with the narration lifting it to greater levels. Bracken in particular is just brilliant narrating the diary entries of a naive Shetland violist thrust into the spotlight when she becomes a member of an upcoming band on their European tour.<\/p>\n

Agent To The Stars<\/strong> by John Scalzi<\/strong> narrated by Wil Wheaton<\/strong>.
\nReviewed before<\/a><\/p>\n

Redshirts<\/strong> by John Scalzi<\/strong> narrated by Wil Wheaton<\/strong>
\nReviewed before<\/a><\/p>\n

The following titles were borrowed from the library. I’ve got some more promising titles to try out in 2016 than these less than impressive efforts.<\/p>\n

The CEO’s Accidental Bride<\/strong> by Barbara Dunlop<\/strong> narrated by Laurence Bouvard<\/strong> rated C-<\/strong>
\nWhile the narration is decent (and the lead male sounds uncannily like Ashley Clement’s Darcy voice from The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet) the book is just awful.<\/p>\n

Billionaire’s Contract Engagement<\/strong> by Maya Banks<\/strong> narrated by Harry Berkeley<\/strong> rated C-<\/strong>
\nI love “Fake Married” stories (this being a fake fiancee tale) but this is just painful.<\/p>\n

Bride, Bought And Paid For<\/strong> by Helen Bianchin<\/strong> narrated by Susan Lyons<\/strong> rated D<\/strong>
\nAuthor can’t write for toffee. Also the happy ending makes no sense given the messed up forced marriage<\/p>\n

The Tycoon Takes A Wife<\/strong> by Catherine Mann<\/strong> narrated by Harry Berkeley<\/strong> rated C-<\/strong>
\nIt’s a terribly weak story with utterly forgettable narration doing nothing to help matters.<\/p>\n

Bossman’s Baby Scandal<\/strong> by Catherine Mann<\/strong> narrated by Harry Berkeley<\/strong> rated C-<\/strong>
\nAgain it’s a terribly weak story with utterly forgettable narration doing nothing to help matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year I discovered downloadable library audiobooks and I also had an Audible membership that helped to expand my audiobook listening. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller narrated by Trevor White Rated A An award winning satire of World War II this classic picaresque novel is superbly read by Trevor White. I’ve read this book twice previously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73,2,26,79,50,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-2","category-audioboook","category-books","category-c-3","category-d","category-fiction","category-rated","category-year-end-round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}