Ivy Tara Blair: Unplugged - Quarantine Edition: Recent Episodes
Ivy Tara Blair
Welcome! Allow me to introduce: I am an audiobook narrator who has chosen to produce a podcast of informal readings just for fun. Expect relaxed reading rather than performances, a few flubs, some narrator commentary and squee - and occasional spoilers for some - which I will mark in the descriptions of those particular episodes.
Today reading from 'Lets Take the Long Way Home' - a book about deep platonic intimacy, this is a description of how they came to realize what was between them was beyond the usual definition of the word 'friendship.'
A hilarious chapter from Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon in which a man tackles the most dangerous breakfast cereal ever.
Two characters try to come to terms with their distaste for each other...it's kind a crunchy :)
Oh my goodness - reading 2 different AI's and the internal narrative voice of one of them...the deliciousness of so much subtle layering that Ann Leckie is capable of is just an utter delight to a narrator, even in a casual reading :)
*spoiler alert - I'm reading from book 3, so spoilers for books 1 and 2 are possible
Scenes from Ursula le Guin's classic novel, The Dispossessed. Her prose is unmatched in it's lyricism and beauty, and I can never get enough of it.
This is the first chapter of Neal Stephanson's Snow Crash - the Deliverator...oh my goodness this is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. I laugh every time I read it :D
A reading of the short story 'Time Skip' by Charles de Lint. Ghosts? Time travel? Old photos? In this short story, de Lint makes urban fantasy both spooky and charming :)
A reading of a scene from Madeline L'Engle's 'A Wind in the Door' - Meg, Charles Wallace, & Calvin all meet...a new friend