Lance Eaton is a writer, college instructor, and instructional designer in the Greater Boston area. He has taught courses on comics, monsters, literature, history, and popular culture. He collects advance degrees and jobs. He has reviewed audiobooks for nearly a decade and is quickly approaching his 1000th review of various media. His musings can be found at his blog, By Any Other Nerd: http://byanyothernerd.blogspot.com Sound Disruptions: Sound Thoughts About Audiobooks…Please? By Lance Eaton I’ve been an avid fan of audiobooks since I was about fifteen and stumbled upon Star Wars abridgements in my local library. I had already read the books, but that I could listen to them, brought …
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October 16th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Winner of Canada Reads 2012 Written By: Carmen Aguirre Narrated By: Carmen Aguirre Published By: Post Hypnotic Press Audiobooks Length: Unabridged 9 Hrs. 36 Min. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter is the winner of Canada Reads 2012. It is the account of Vancouver actor, director and playwright Carmen Aguirre a child of Chilean revolutionaries who herself became an active member of the underground resistance during Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1980’s Chile, the war in Peru, the dictatorship in Bolivia, and further unrest in Argentina. In Chile in 1973, a brutal coup removed the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende from office …
Anne Flosnik is an accomplished British actress with lead credits on stage, television, commercials, and voice-overs. A seasoned narrator, she has garnered two AudioFile Earphones Awards, an ALA Award, and three Audie Award nominations. Her narration of Little Bee by Chris Cleave was chosen as one of the Best Audiobooks of the Year by AudioFile magazine and one of the Top 40 Best Audiobooks of 2009 by Library Journal. Anne can be found on the web at: www.anneflosnik.com About Audiobooks: JP: Anne, how did you get your start in audio books, and what made you interested in the genre in the first place? Were you yourself an audiobook listener? AF: …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 3 NO. 7 RANDOM THOUGHTS And Musings ON MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT There’s a new movie out called Expendables 2. It is the sequel to the stunningly boring Expendables 1. I am certain the film will make money—certainly in France where films like this are considered art – as the French can’t conceive that a film so stupid could be anything but art. Having said that – having come out and opined that this is fatuous mind-numbingly vacuous crap not worth the price of even a free ticket, I can’t wait! Are you kidding me?! Stallone! Arnold! Willis! Stratham! And Chuck Freakin’ Norris! OMG – …
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