_The Book Of Three_ by Lloyd
Alexander. Now I see why my sister and mom liked it so much back in the day.
Working at a client site some ways away means I have more audiobook time in the
car, so maybe I'll finish listening to the series by time they are due back to
the library.
_World War I: The "Great
War"_ from the Teaching Company, lecturer
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. Ok, maybe now I'm
beginning to have a handle on WWI--always to me the great unknown war. For the
cognitive dissonance effect, my next audio in the car is Lloyd Alexander's _The Book of Three_.
_Peter Pan_ and all ready for
_Hook and Jill_. Interesting reading a story so Disneyfied or otherwise
prettified. A number of things struck me, but perhaps the most obvious was the
casual brutality, if you will, summed up by the phrase Barrie uses several
times of children being "gay and innocent and heartless."
finished "Partly Cloudy
Patriot" by Sarah Vowell. An absolutely wonderful collection of essays on
everything from Salem, to "Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous", to how if Al
Gore had listened to Joss Whedon instead of his handlers and "done a
Willow" with self-deprecation he would have been president for life.
_Sunset Express_ by Robert Crais.
_Blood Rites_ by Jim Butcher,
_Rough Justice_ by Jack Higgins, and _The Letter of Marque_ by Patrick O'Brian.
Talk about your varieties of adventure. Something that surprised me--maybe I
wasn't paying attention--is how many very nice, thoughtful phrases and ways of
looking at things Butcher placed in the narrative and Harry Dresden's mouth in
particular. Have these always been there?
_The Reverse of the Medal_ by
Patrick O'Brian and _The Killing Ground_ by Jack Higgins.