She is going to the ice in the spring of the year

[sovay]

I feel at this point that I am disappointing everyone by reporting that I had yet another sleepless night thanks to a body full of pain and another sleepless day thanks to a street full of jackhammers, but I really appreciate that my father finished listening to the BBC Radio 4 production of Michelle Paver's Dark Matter (2010) and thought immediately that I would like to hear an Arctic ghost story set in 1937. I am far less designed by nature for any form of audiobook than for just reading the book myself, but I became tragically fond of Lee Ingleby based entirely on his Jonah-role in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and may sleeplessly give this programme a try.

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[sovay]

As everyone else says, you're not disappointing us. We are disappointed if currently unsurprised by the things being thrown at you constantly and very unfairly, but always very happy to have an update of whatever kind you find able to make.

*hugs*

Good luck in discovering whether or not you can make an exception for a ghostly audiobook reading, but, hey, maybe if not they might still do a full-cast one some time.

I actually don't find full-cast dramatizations easier than audiobooks, I just make exceptions when necessary. This one falls between the two: it's a first-person narrative with the epistolary conceit of a journal, so having one person read all the voices is diegetically appropriate. (I am also entertained that I know Lee Ingleby from so little other film or TV that his starring in this story produces a reaction of dude, you went to sea again! Of course things are cursed! What were you thinking?)

[thisbluespirit]

I actually don't find full-cast dramatizations easier than audiobooks, I just make exceptions when necessary.

Oh, sorry; I suppose I only knew of full-cast exceptions you had made, so had thought that was a little easier than audiobooks for you, too (it is for me - I cannot do single voiced things at all as a rule). I'm glad it's proving to be one of the exceptions, anyway. <3

Talking of doomed souls, and things, here's another bit of David Collings from tumblr. :-)

[sovay]

Oh, sorry; I suppose I only knew of full-cast exceptions you had made, so had thought that was a little easier than audiobooks for you, too (it is for me - I cannot do single voiced things at all as a rule).

I find it easier by orders of magnitude to read anything than listen to it. Except for music, I am not a primarily auditory learner. I can fail to hear a conversation because I am reading at the time. Audio dramas are worth the effort of concentration because they are an art form that can't be reproduced by reading the script, but audiobooks have always just felt pointless. As it happens, I am really enjoying this production, but I think the fact that it is essentially a two-hour dramatic monologue makes it possible. I've never been able to hack an audiobook in the third person even for voices I like. (Differentiated yet again from an author giving a reading of their own work, which for all I know my brain interprets more like theater. I don't collect recordings of readings, but I miss attending them at conventions and local bookstores. I also miss giving them.) See also why I do not listen to podcasts no matter how highly recommended and wish that DVDs with audio commentaries came with transcripts. The current trend of everything being video is actively rough on me.

Talking of doomed souls, and things, here's another bit of David Collings from tumblr.

That's a great picture. (I would like to have a hobby of living by the sea.)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, I knew you found it all difficult; I'd just sort of assumed full cast was a fraction less so, but that makes sense! I mean, I always just link you if I find something especially RTYI, but I know audio is hard and never expect you to listen to it unless you do. But: commiserations - people should definitely still blog by typing more!!

(I have a hard block on any single spoken voice format (with the very odd exception for specific voices, like those David Collings cds I sent), but I also have quite a painfully low tolerance for sound generally, so in theory I am okay with music, multiple voice commentaries & full cast drama (provided I listen to it on earphones not out loud), but not spoken word, single-voice commentaries or podcasts etc, but in practice, due to the CFS, I have to save sound tolerance for general noise, speaking to people, watching TV/film in carefully timed segments, so I listen to v little & v specific music from time to time while on the PC and radio drama in small doses on my mp3 player at very specific times & an occasionally commentary if it has actors on it in my TV watching time, but they're always bad for me!! (You just sometimes gotta to do the thing anyway, ahem.) I would probably have never got back into audio after the relapse, but I had all these Big Finish CDs with beloved characters unavailable elsewhere, and then David Collings turned out to be in more of them and in the BBC LotR. The latter was a revelation and basically ever since then I have been the annoying full cast drama devotee you have to put up with today. Everything since being ill is always Mr Collings's fault, lol, although in that category, Mr Jarvis has certainly aided and abetted quite to an unnecessary degree!)

That's a great picture. (I would like to have a hobby of living by the sea.)

<3 It is, isn't it?