Downloaded some more podfics and had to get rid of some of them right away. Bad mixing in of music and voice, making the narrator almost unintelligible. Developing a thing for some readers, which I can count on will be fun. However, I've been in a weird mood for a couple of days and can't settle on listening to anything for very long. Get itchy and restless with most stories. A weird one that might be just the thing to listen to today is The Incestuous Courtship of The Antichrist's Bride, which is not my favorite by Fleshflutter because I like her more serious stuff better, but I think the fic has a great reader in FayJay and has the possibility of being a better podfic than a lot of Fleshflutter's other stories.

There have been a lot of times I've been listening to old favorites in SGA and SPN and realize that they don't do it for me in audio form.

I don't know how it is that some fics work so much better as audio files, it's not just the excellent narrator (FayJay), but WOW, the The Incestuous Courtship of The Antichrist's Bride podfic is SO MUCH FUN.

Just the thing to bring glee to my day!

Even as I find it more and more difficult to read fic (get distracted, bored, not in the mood, whatever) I'm enjoying reading original fiction and some non-fiction in huge, huge amounts. At least huge compared to what I was managing to read last year.

I read a couple of superduper weird and interesting fiction books (Infinite Jest and 2666), read some short stories, which I usually avoid, and managed to finish stuff like Children of Men (which was better as a movie, and less with PD James' creepy religious imagery) and just this month gave up very quickly on Under the Dome by Stephen King.

I feel very grateful to the hours of enjoyment I got out of King's writing while in high school and college, it was one way I learned to read in English. However, it seems that now everytime I pick up one his novels I feel like I've read it all before. I've liked King, his public persona, for a long time, what he has to say about books and writing and his own talent. I so wish he really did have in him something new I could enjoy, but I guess the gift is what it is and will just remember his stuff fondly.