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Latest read: “The Highly Sensitive Person in Love” by Elaine Aron on #libby

I think this really hit close to home for me. Less practical advice for how to live and adapt in relationships if you’re a “highly sensitive person”. There was also some interesting discussion on gender roles and sensitivity and how a “highly sensitive male” (HSM) feels less than manly in our culture and …. Yeah i have to think about that a lot and my ideas around my own gender and transitioning.

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Finished Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen. A fun space whodunit with lots of action & twists surrounding a secret agent with a superpower -- the only known person with any superpower, in fact -- that lets him open a "pocket" into a void where he can store things that secret agents might like to stash & have handy. When his agency has a surprise audit, his boss gets him out of the action by sending him on a vacation cruise to Mars. But space shenanigans occur, of course. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

I’ve just finished reading a book called “Oracle” by Thomas Olde Hevelt, he is a Dutch author, I really enjoyed reading his previous books, I’ve read all of them and I have to say that “Oracle” is another great book and I don’t regret reading it. I really enjoyed it. Now I’m reading something different. It’s a book written by a Japanese author called. Opening “We will prescribe you a cat” by Sho Ishida. I was so curious about this book so I’ve just started reading, so I can’t say anything about it. It’s well narrated, which is good. Have a wonderful day.

No dobrze, dwie części za mną. Książki z serii są tak dobre, jak pamiętałem. Jednocześnie chyba pierwszy raz słucham ich po polsku i zauważyłem ciekawą tendencję do tłumaczenia i zmieniania niektórych rzeczy. Nie zawsze rozumiem, skąd się to wzięło.

Rozumiem przykładowo zmianę nazwisk dwóch postaci, aby pasowało do kilku nawiązań czy żartów. Bracia Stoll w polskim nie dają praktycznie żadnego pola do manewru, a zmiana ich nazwiska na Hood nie dość, że pasuje w kontekście złodziei, stoi obie postacie są łucznikami. Zastanawia mnie jednak zamiana w polskiej wersji enchiladas na tortille. Rozumiem, że to pierwsze nie jest takie popularne u nas, ale nie rozumiem tej zmiany mimo wszystko. No i przede wszystkim czy ktoś potrafi mi wyjaśnić czemu imię jednej postaci zostało zmienione z George na Greg?!

PS. Chwaliłem wcześniej lektora, hycnara, za jego wykonanie. Należą mu się jednak dwie zjebki: po pierwsze tortilla wymawia się przez j …

There’s an ARKHANGELSK audiobook!

Warning: This is…kinda a promo post. Because I have something to promote, this time somewhat unexpectedly:

Arkhangelsk is going to be released on audiobook on June 10!

Podium Entertainment produced it, and I have to say I’m really pleased. Both readers are marvelous in different ways, and handle the characters beautifully. (It’s been years since I’ve listened to a new audiobook – they are so good now!)

It’s Audible-only, which means (I think?) exclusively at Amazon. Should be up for preorder in all the English-language Amazon stores. For now, have a listen to the sample at Podium’s site. That’s Lisa Cordileone, reading the beginning of Chapter 1. (Kinda wish you could all hear her read Rolf’s trial, and then hear Ivory Tiffin read the aftermath, but you’ll have to grab a copy for that. :))

When I say I didn’t expect to be promoting this, I …

Audiobook cover for ARKHANGELSK by Elizabeth H. Bonesteel, performed by Lisa Cordileone and Ivory Tiffin

I'm quite annoyed that I'm not an type. I just don't listen to them when they are played!

When I hear them while walking, my brain totally drifts off in the environment and when I hear them on the couch, my fingers fiddle with my phone automatically.

I don't have the same problem with podcasts.

Maybe it's because of the even, sometimes monotonous reading aloud!? No idea. First world problems, i know.

I love you, Libby, but when all the non-fiction holds come in at once, it can be a little bit too much of a racism-climate change double-decker burger.

So I’m going to biff off to Libro and read this supernatural cozy mystery I got on sale. I loved the author’s weird 2nd-world Victorian fantasies, so I have high hopes!

Screenshot of an audiobook cover in Libro: The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society C.M. Waggoner. The cover is drawn in color blocks in a stylized jaunty style, something like that often associated with softcore or cross-genre romances lately. It shows a rounded dark shape — probably a door or portal as stars appear through it as well as the title, but it is also a traditional cartoon “gravestone” shape — surrounded by disorderly book shelves mounted on lavender walls. The title is in slightly uneven small-serif decorative font, with “Demon-hunting” in red with horns on the ‘o’, and a long forked tail on the sore “Society” which is batted at by a little silhouette of a cat.