Reading and listening

[chickenfeet]

Since I got my iPod shuffle I've been mostly listening to audio books when I work out or run. I'm discovering that I like different kind of books in the two media. When I'm reading I tend to prefer non-fiction and only read novels occasionally. (That said, I just read Patricia Finney's Gloriana's Torch which I recommend highly to anyone who likes historical mystery/spy thrillers). On the other hand I tend to prefer fiction on the iPod and, oddly, fiction that I wouldn't necessarily much care to read. For example, I've been listening to a lot of Terry Pratchett. The lovely jupitah kindly sent me a copy of Guards, Guards which I read and thought was the sort of thing that I might read on a long flight but couldn't really get worked up about. I liked it enough though to pick up some torrents of other Pratchetts as audiobooks and I find I like them much more that way. Currently I'm listening to Going Postal which is quite fun, especially as it's read by Tony Robinson. I've tried listening to the kind I really like both as books and as audio. I have Perfume, The Name of the Rose, Heaneywulf and A Dance to the Music of Time in both formats and I love them!