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Books and Audiobooks
By: Piper Date: August 5, 2015, 7:20 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]Has anyone read To Kill a Mockingbird? I
have two audiobook credits, and thought I might use them for
that, and Go Set a Watchman--Harper Lee's newly discovered
novel.
So many books, so little time.
Do you think there are books in heaven? Vast libraries,
hopefully?[/font]
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Kerry Date: August 5, 2015, 9:46 pm
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I don't think I read that, but maybe I did. I did see the movie
-- I remember that. If you have two hours to spare, You Tube
has the full movie. ;)
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Books in Heaven? There are records of some sort kept, but I
don't know about books or how they're read. I'm pretty sure
they have picture galleries and concerts, so they probably
have books of some sort.
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Piper Date: August 5, 2015, 11:59 pm
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Well, we know there is the Lamb's Book of Life. I suppose
that's the book I should be concerned with.
Hey, thanks. I bookmarked the movie on YouTube.
The thing about audiobooks is that I tend to fall asleep while
listening, and then can never figure out where I was last
conscious.
I think I have sleeping sickne . . . Zzzzzzzzz
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Kerry Date: August 6, 2015, 6:08 am
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I've never done audio books; but I think they'd be good for
trips in cars. I think I did read that book in high school. I
don't remember the books I read in high school very well -- i
think maybe it's because my mind wasn't programmed right then.
I saw the movie when I was in college.
Gregory Peck is in the movie. I always liked how he could
look so serious and be convincing. I found it a very intense
movie.
Shifting gears a bit, the only movie that frightened me enough
to make me scream when I was watching it was "Wait Until Dark"
with Audrey Hepburn playing a blind woman. Criminals are after
her in her house; and there's a pool table in the room (for
other people, of course) under a light. She gropes around to
find a pool cue; and I'm thinking, "Don't be silly, you can't
win against them with that." But she takes it and smashes the
light. The screen goes black. Yes, the whole screen, and
the theater is in darkness too. I thought she was really in
trouble then; and that's when I screamed. It took a while
before I realized who clever she was. She had the advantage
after smashing the light. Ha, ha, the Exorcist didn't make me
scream. I found it so unrealistic parts of it made me laugh.
Yes, I believe in demons; but the way they did that movie wasn't
very convincing to me.
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 6, 2015, 6:15 am
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The guy on the right was in Star Trek:
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Piper Date: August 6, 2015, 8:14 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]^O yeah, same nose. :D
Kerry, I would've loved to hear your scream.
I carried the Exorcist book around in 4th grade, just to be
cool, haha. Teacher asked, "Do your parents know you're reading
that?" The movie was kinda gross.
I thought the Salem series was pretty darn disturbing, but I
couldn't seem to turn it off. I wonder what really went on, how
much might've been true demonic activity, and how much was just
mass hysteria.[/font]
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: bradley Date: August 6, 2015, 10:30 pm
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I have gotten a few audio books, listened to some in the vehicle
and listened to some at home while doing some computing. The
last one was "Polar shift", a good action story about a guy and
his buddy who save the world from crazy people who are trying to
force a polar shift on the earth.
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Piper Date: November 10, 2015, 12:02 pm
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[center][font=andale mono] “So how, children, does the brain,
which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full
of light?”
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[font=trebuchet ms]Here is a book I look forward to
reading/listening to. I think it will be my next audiobook.
I'm trying to listen to audiobooks regularly to increase my
listening comprehension. Way back in school, my reading
comprehension always received high scores, but not my listening.
So, I'm hoping to improve.
Anyway, this book sounds like a potentially wonderful story
about reaching beyond "enemy lines" to do what is right and
good.
The book is said to have amazing metaphors and imagery, as well
as hauntingly beautiful prose. Sounds like a joy!
All the Light We Cannot See is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize,
and was the 2014 Goodread's Choice Winner. The Plot Summary is
taken from Wikipedia. Caution: May contain spoilers.
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[font=times new roman]Set in occupied France during World War
II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy
whose paths eventually cross.
In 1934, Marie-Laure LeBlanc is the daughter of a widowed master
locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris whom she
often accompanies to work. Marie suffered from rapidly
deteriorating eyesight before becoming fully blind due to
cataracts at the age of 6. Her father promises that he will
always be there for her and creates a wooden scale-model of
their neighborhood in Paris for her to memorize by touch so that
she is able to navigate by herself. He also keeps her mind sharp
by hiding birthday gifts in intricate puzzle boxes that he
carves. Marie learns to read Braille and her father gives her
new novels in Braille to read. She becomes entranced by the
imagined worlds like those that she explores in her edition of
Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
The museum where Marie-Laure's father works as a locksmith is
rumored to house an exquisite diamond of immeasurable value,
with beautiful dancing "red flames" at its center: According to
legend, however, the priceless diamond is cursed: whoever keeps
the "Sea of Flames" cannot die but their loved ones will be
stricken with unending misfortunes.
Meanwhile, in Germany, 8-year-old Werner Pfennig is an orphan in
the coal-mining town of Zollverein. He and his sister Jutta find
a broken short-wave radio behind the Children’s Home where they
live. Werner manages to repair the radio and his natural skill
for circuitry becomes apparent. He and Jutta tune in and listen
to a variety of programs, including a regular broadcast from
France hosted by an older gentleman who shares stories about the
world of science, skilfully framed so that even younger
listeners can understand.
When the Nazis invade France in 1940, Marie-Laure and her father
flee from Paris to the coastal town of Saint-Malo[1] to take
refuge with her great-uncle Etienne, a recluse suffering
shell-shock from the Great War. Unbeknownst to Marie-Laure, her
father has been entrusted with the Sea of Flames or one of three
exact copies, all of which must be hidden to keep them out of
the Germans’ hands. He conceals it in a small wooden replica of
Etienne’s house within the model he makes of Saint-Malo. Shortly
thereafter, he is arrested by the Germans and disappears,
leaving Marie-Laure alone with Etienne and his housekeeper.
Soon, a greedy and selfish Nazi treasure-hunter, Sergeant Major
Reinhold von Rumpel, sets out on the trail of the Sea of Flames.
Werner's passion for science and his gift for radio mechanics
earn him a place at a nightmarish training school for the Nazi
military elite where, he’s told, “You will all surge in the same
direction at the same pace toward the same cause.. ... You will
eat country and breathe nation.” Werner obeys, and his
discipline and scientific aptitude carry him into the Wehrmacht,
where he proves adept at finding the senders of illegal radio
transmissions. But he is increasingly sickened by what happens
when he tracks a radio signal to its source: “Inside the closet
is not a radio but a child sitting on her bottom with a bullet
through her head," and haunted by his memories of the
Frenchman’s broadcasts, which remind him of a time when science
seemed an instrument of wonder, not death.
Werner and Marie-Laure’s paths converge in 1944, when Allied
forces have landed on the beaches of Normandy and Werner’s unit
is dispatched to Saint-Malo to trace and destroy the sender of
mysterious intelligence broadcasts. Werner ultimately decides to
allow the broadcasts to continue and eventually saves
Marie-Laure from the repulsive von Rumpel. Although only
together for a short time, they form a strong bond. Werner sends
Marie-Laure away into safety but becomes gravely ill. Although
he begins to recover, he mistakenly enters a field of landmines
at night and ends up triggering a mine that takes his life.
Thirty years later, Jutta, Werner's sister, receives information
from an old associate of Werner's that contains information on
his death as well as a house from the model that Marie-Laure's
father had made. Jutta travels to France with her son Max, where
she meets Marie-Laure in the museum at which her father had
worked. Marie-Laure discovers that the Sea of Flames was left in
a hidden grotto in Saint-Malo by Werner before he died. The
story ends with Marie-Laure, now 86 years old, walking with her
grandson in the streets of Paris where she grew up.[/font]
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: bradley Date: November 10, 2015, 12:33 pm
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Nothing like a good book to take a vacation from self, and into
worlds of courage, love, and all things good.
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Re: Books and Audiobooks
By: Piper Date: November 10, 2015, 12:54 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]^ I agree, Brad. Books have been my
"transport" since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. :)
Hope you and Emmy are well, and snuggling in for the coming
winter.[/font]
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