Trying something new

[lightreads]

Trying something new to liven things up for me, as I've been feeling a bit blah about the TBR pile lately. I haven't come up with a snappy name for it yet, but here's how it'll work:

If there's something you want me to read and review, drop a comment here with title and author and anything else relevant. It can be anything – something you think I might like, something you think I will loathe and enjoy foaming at the mouth about, something you want me to read as a test run before you do, whatever. I'll pick one out of the suggestions, read it, review, and in that review open comments up for the next batch of suggestions. A few rules guidelines:

• One book per person per round, please (though feel free to repeat in a subsequent round if I don't get to it first time out)
• I'm using "book" loosely – shorter work is fine, too.
• I obviously won't read things that aren't available in an accessible format. If you want to check on something before suggesting it (not required), run it through The National Library Service, Audible, and Bookshare. I have other, more specialized sources, so I still may be able to get something that isn't in one of the big archives.

Please note: Kindle books and associated devices and apps are not accessible. Do not get me going on this, we'll be here all night.

I won't have a set schedule for these reads and reviews, so we'll see how it shakes out naturally.

…Go!

Comments

[jadelennox]

Well, poop. I wanted to see you foam at the mouth about David Stahler's abominable Truesight, but I can't find accessible versions of it anywhere. Not surprisingly, because it's clear the author and publisher of that book don't believe in non-metaphorical blindness.

Then I wanted to recommend the excellent Hush by Eshet Chayil, but I can't find an accessible version of that either, which is just criminal.

I see that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audio is narrated by Bahni Turpin, who did a fabulous job on the other audios I know, and I liked the book. I'd be curious what you think of it. So how's about that one?

[teafeather]

Truesight is available in 4-track cassette format from New York's Andrew Heiskell Library Braille and Talking Book Library. Catalog number is NN-BPH RC 5628

Of course if you don't have an NLS-type 4-track cassette player still lying around that probably won't do you much good.

[lightreads]

Of course if you don't have an NLS-type 4-track cassette player still lying around that probably won't do you much good.

I was about to say 'haha, of course I don't, that would be silly,' and then I realized oh shit, I actually do. Though not one of the giant 6-pound NLS beasts, at least.