Woo hoo! I have reached my goal of 26 books for the year. Of those 26 books, 12 were audio books. Audio books have been a new experience for me and one that I've had to adapt to because your brain works completely differently when you read a book to when you listen to one. It has given my eyes a break and allowed me to hear stories I already knew through someone else's reading. It is true that I mainly used audio books to re-read some of my favourite books.
Book 26 of 2014 is a free audio book as a Christmas present from
Audible. I recommend Audible US because it has many more titles than the Aussie site. Shoosh, don't tell them I live here.
The book was
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, read by
Julia Whelan who was Audible's narrator of the year.
This a story I know very well from my childhood and has been one of the reasons I have avoided Disney's version - Frozen. They never tell a story the way it was written and tend to make the women weak and the animals sing.
This is worth the read or the listen. I'd recommend that if you read it in Darwin that you do so with the air conditioner on full.
4 evil shards of glass out of 5.
Should I read this? Yes. It is delightful.
What did I learn? People are not evil. They just have shards of evil glass in them.
