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So I may no longer have any ambitions of making podfic, but I have found other uses for my books on tape. It turns out I have free membership to a local gym through my dad’s work, and I need something to listen to while I work out. Anyway, this means more books on tape, and since my grandmother wants to encourage my workout routine, she’s footing the bill! You hear that? Someone else is buying me books! This hasn’t happened since I was ten and my parents concluded I didn’t need their help in becoming literarily inclined.
Since her father’s death in a hot air balloon, Daryn Sharp has thought of nothing other than getting to fly again, but with her mother and aunts ready to force her into petticoats and corsets and being a proper lady, the kind who would never fly again, Deryn runs away to join the new Royal Air Navy, disguised as a boy. Growing up, Prince Aleksander of Austria-Hungary has always known he was not in line for the throne, and that as the son of a lady in waiting and her Archduke husband, the court hates him. But when his parents are assassinated and Europe edges into war, Alek discovers that his parents’ enemies are far more deadly than he dreamed.
( “The young prince has been awake all along,” Wildcount Volger’s low voice said. “A bit of advice, Your Highness? When pretending to be asleep, it is advisable not to hold one’s breath.” )
Listening to Leviathan only while I work out is an exercise in delayed gratification, because this book is just that good. Seriously, I’ve exercised more than I planned just to listen to it faster.
Scott Westerfeld can be found online at scottwesterfeld.com. Keith Thompson, the series illustrator can be found at keiththompsonart.com.
Since her father’s death in a hot air balloon, Daryn Sharp has thought of nothing other than getting to fly again, but with her mother and aunts ready to force her into petticoats and corsets and being a proper lady, the kind who would never fly again, Deryn runs away to join the new Royal Air Navy, disguised as a boy. Growing up, Prince Aleksander of Austria-Hungary has always known he was not in line for the throne, and that as the son of a lady in waiting and her Archduke husband, the court hates him. But when his parents are assassinated and Europe edges into war, Alek discovers that his parents’ enemies are far more deadly than he dreamed.
( “The young prince has been awake all along,” Wildcount Volger’s low voice said. “A bit of advice, Your Highness? When pretending to be asleep, it is advisable not to hold one’s breath.” )
Listening to Leviathan only while I work out is an exercise in delayed gratification, because this book is just that good. Seriously, I’ve exercised more than I planned just to listen to it faster.
Scott Westerfeld can be found online at scottwesterfeld.com. Keith Thompson, the series illustrator can be found at keiththompsonart.com.
