Friday 8 August 2014

Distraction of the week: Listening to audio extracts on SoundCloud

 SoundCloud
I was looking for an audio extract from Carlo Ruiz Zafron's Marina, and stumbled across Orion Books' page on SoundCloud. Two hours later, and I had listened to the first chapter of scores of books, from Marina to Rainbow Rowell's Landline, Robin Sloane's Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Book Store to Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. I love listening to books, but my problem is that they put me to sleep - and I mean this in the nicest possible way. But I stayed awake for all of these because the voices kept changing just as I'd start to drift off...

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