Other books referenced 2008

In addition to the main feature readings of the podcast, Julie often mentions other books or book reviews. In 2008, Forgotten Classics was still almost exclusively show notes for the podcast.

2008-01-11 has the first (but happily not last) enthusings about The Arkangel Complete Shakespeare recordings. You can't really present a play as an audiobook, it has to be an audiodrama at least to some degree.
The entry mentions also a review of Bioshock. If play can be literature, then a game can be, too. (In football, I prefer Australian rules to American, though.)

2008-04-28 reminds us that we live not by word alone, but by toothsome things also. Julie gives us pointers to her reviews of Heat: An Amateur's Adventures, Key to Chinese Cooking, and Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood.

2008-05-03 links to reviews of Seven Archangels: Annihilation and Bride of the Rat God.

2008-05-16 mentions the urban noir fantasy Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword, the murder mystery Silent In The Grave whose opening paragraph rivals Austen, and the international thriller Murder by Design.

2008-07-15 has recommendations for travel listening, among them Rabbit Ears audio storybooks.

makes me hungry with Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, How to Pick a Peach, and The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down. Moreover, as I write this there's eight inches of snow under my lilacs, and it is totally the right sort of weather for things that are slowly cooked in the oven, and Julie mentions Real Stew: 300 Recipes.

Martian Chronicles.

2008-09-13 fabulates with Carbonel: the King of Cats.

2008-11-23 advertises that great resource of spoken word audio, librivox.org, from where Julie picks as examples The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The White Moll, and The Grand Babylon Hotel.

Among end-of-the-year lists, 2008-12-29 lists six audiobooks. Do go and read Julie's comments! The books she has picked are

Already Dead by Charlie Huston, non-sparkly vampires;
Assam and Darjeeling by T. M. Camp of classic mythological themes with modern air;
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, like any good YA book, is actually ageless;
Jeeves in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse ("dottiness" is the perfect word, thanks!);
The Risk Profession by Donald Westlake to remind us that not all Westlake's stories are slapstick comedis of hapless losers;
The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer from the time when Farmer was still somewhat emulating E.R.B. -- not that there's anything wrong with that.

Hm. For such a nice lady, Julie sure peddles rather a lot of murder and horror. ;)

It always the nice ones...