Who knew the Hudson River Park had it’s own Wifi? Now I do. And so, I gaze on the landscape of Jersey as I type this.
Might as well weigh in on the last two audiobooks eh?
First, there’s Bloody Jack by LA Meyer. It’s the first in a series though I’ve yet to try the other books except one unsuccessful attempt to read the pb of the second book a few years back. I had read that the narrator won an Audie for a later book in the series so I figured I’d give it a go. It was fun, if a bit silly. She’s girl pretending to be a ship’s boy so she can leave behind the streets of London where she has to beg all the time. Naturally, she falls in love with another boy and when he finds out she’s a she, he falls deeply in love with her as well.
The good thing about Jackie/Mary is that she’s a very strong and capable girl to the point where she’s better at fighting pirates than most of the other boys. I’d have to say my hands down favorite part is when she writes her will because she thinks she’s dying when she gets her period.
The audiobook I listened to after that was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. It was an interesting concept, vampires caused most of the wars, a noble man hunts them because they killed people close to him and he eventually becomes president as vampires take over the south. I have to say while listening to it, I imagine it would make a lotof Southerners unhappy. They’re not all complicit in supporting the vampires but a lot of them are.
The main plus of this audio book was that it did make me want to know more about the life of the actual Lincoln as I knew he was from Illinois but had no idea he was born in Kentucky and moved about what was then the frontier for a part of his childhood. Pretty much all his education was self-motivated. I have to assume some of these facts from the audio book are true, eh?
So right now my iPod usb cord is on the fritz. My comp doesn’t know it’s connected, yet it will still charge the battery, so hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to start listening to Savvy by Ingrid Law once I get this techfail fixed.
