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Allright, audiobook heads, listen up! The Audio Publishers Association yesterday announced the contenders for the 2012 Audie Awards. I was pleased to see a few titles that were listed on LJ’s Best Audio for last year, like Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which is nominated in several categories; The King’s Speech, and, my personal fav, Black Mask [...]
Graham Greene novel converted to film with Helen Mirren, classic Griffiths silent classics
For the next two columns, I’d like to look at the first-person shooter (FPS) titles essential to a strong video game collection. FPSs are defined by two things: a “first-person” camera perspective and a game play that relies in large part on physical conflict between the player/character (the protagonist role the gamer assumes) and large [...]
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. 9 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 10¾ hrs. Naxos Audiobooks. 2011. ISBN 9781843794431. $59.98; 3 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 4 hrs.; digital download. CLASSIC Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Taking place in the industrial burg of Coketown, the drama among the characters illustrates the author’s view of the dehumanizing effects [...]
A moving portrait of immigrants in New York, plus the rich history of our culture through quilts
Which film will be voted Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards?
Run, Broken Yet Brave. color. 93 min. Tom Simes, Five Stones Films, dist. by Mo Mo Bay, www.momobay.com. 2011. DVD UPC 091037120021. $19.98. Rated: TV-14. F When we first meet Ashley, she is an angry teenager, on her way to spend the summer with her grandparents, “somewhere in the middle of the country.” From that [...]
In our ongoing series of Q&As with audiobook publishers, LJ here chats with Michele Cobb, VP of sales and marketing at AudioGO and president of the Audio Publishers Association. The audiobook market now is split between physical discs and downloadable. Where are you in terms of this? Do you do both? MC: At AudioGO, we [...]
Black, Lisa. Defensive Wounds. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Dreamscape Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781611203837. $59.99; 8 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. MYS This fourth novel featuring forensic investigator Theresa MacLean starts out with the death of a defense attorney. While the police shed few tears for the [...]
By the time you read this column, 77-year-old Canadian poet/musician Leonard Cohen will have only just released his 12th studio album, the drolly named Old Ideas (Columbia. UPC 886979867123), on January 31. Songs that have been leaked so far are stately and hymnlike, as befitting a man who became a Zen monk in 1996 and [...]
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