Good morning, welcome to another reading roundup. The biggest item of note this week is that I am now Bluetoothed up to my hearing aids so I can listen to my audiobooks directly throughly hearing aids. Yay!! It’s lovely to have the audio directly in my ears without having to wear headphones which are painful with my hearing aid. I tested it with Firefight, the Brandon Sanderson novel I had been enjoying – it works really well and I can enjoy my audiobooks again. On the TBR list for this week is Jim Butcher’s Death Masks – the fourth in his Dresden Files series narrated by James Marsters. Good stuff. In a previous entry I have mentioned the web series Green Gables Fables, a modern retelling in transmedia format of the classic Anne of Green Gables series. Those of you familiar with the source material will know there is a truly heart wrenching moment towards the end of the first book. The series reached that point this week, and I have to say I found the last video a real tearjerker to watch. I’ve not been so emotionally engaged in a web series since Lydiagate broke in The Lizzie Bennet…
So this week I finished a couple of books, one of which left me thinking, “oh… OK. What happened exactly?” and the other received my first five star rating in quite some time. The first of these was Unraveled by Gennifer Albin, the final book in her Crewel World YA dystopian trilogy. I think it would require a second reading to understand fully what Albin was trying to achieve. Unfortunately, I don’t feel strongly enough about it to care about a reread. I loved the first book, second one was so-so and the third. Hmmmm. I probably won’t review this one. The second one was the audiobook of Graeme Simsion’s quirky romance The Rosie Project. I adored this, so expect my full review next week. Other than reading, I’ve been indulging in my new secret obsession; the British quiz show QI, which I discovered recently on UK Netflix. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this, it’s a cross between standup comedy and a quiz show. The quizmaster is the always engaging Stephen Fry with regular panelist Alan Davies. The other panelists are standup comedians generally from the UK. Each episode has a theme, and panelists gain points by…