Audiobook Heaven Mailbag #12

Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook Heaven

Wow, October is half over already! That means time is running short for our Halloween preparations here at Audiobook Heaven. Maybe I better get my Halloween checklist out and double check it. Now wheredid I put that list…

Ah, here it is! Let me see now:
Jack O’lantern’s carved.
Check.
Fake spider webs in all the corners of the barn.
Check.
Apples dipped in caramel.
Check.
Scary sound effects CD in the player.
Check.
Animatronic monsters assembled and programmed.
Check, and check.
It looks like everything is ready, and well ahead of schedule I might add. That only leaves one thing, checking out the old Audiobook Heaven Mailbag to see what new audiobooks came in this week!

From Blackstone Audio, we have:

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
In Bradbury's unforgettable modern Gothic masterpiece, Something Wicked This Way Comes, something evil arrives in a small Midwestern town on the crest of the wind one autumn night. A "dark carnival" with frightening attractions and supernatural characters sets up stakes. It is up to two 13-year-old boys, James Nightshade and William Holloway, to figure out a way to save the souls of the town.
In A Sound of Thunder, a safari company promises to transport adventurers back in time, to hunt any animal that ever existed. The animals are selected according to their natural time of death: nothing else may be altered, because it might change the course of the future. When one foolish hunter comes face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the carefully constructed safari goes awry, and the future is up for grabs.

The Halloween Tree

by Ray Bradbury, narrated by Bronson Pinchot
On a Halloween night, eight boys are led on an incredible journey into the past by the mysterious “spirit” Moundshroud. Riding a dark autumn wind from ancient Egypt to the land of the Celtic druids, from Mexico to a cathedral in Paris, they will witness the haunting beginnings of the holiday called Halloween.
Ray Bradbury’s evocative prose and imagery will send shivers of delight—and spine-chilling terror—through listeners young and old, long after the last candle has died in your jack-o’-lantern.

What It Is Like To Go To War

by Karl Marlantes, narrated by Bronson Pinchot
From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Matterhorn comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war and the psychological and spiritual toll it takes on those who fight.
“I wrote this book primarily to come to terms with my own experience of combat. So far—reading, writing, thinking—that has taken over thirty years.”
In 1969, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty marines who would live or die by his decisions. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his war experience. In his first work of nonfiction, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at what it is like to experience the ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better prepare our soldiers for war.
Just as Matterhorn is already acclaimed a classic of war literature, What It Is Like to Go to War is set to become required reading for anyone—soldier or civilian—interested in this visceral and all-too-essential part of the human experience.

The Christmas Stories

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.
Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions, and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

The Christmas Candle

When a mysterious angel suddenly appears in a lowly candlemaker's shop, the holy and the human collide in a way that only God could imagine. Glowing bright with a timeless message, The Christmas Candle will warm your heart with a surprising reminder of God's bountiful love.

Okay, it’s a little early for Christmas, but how about thoseHalloween titles! This could be our bestHalloween ever! I hope all of your Halloween preparations are goingwell too. See you next week!


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