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I've been both under the weather and unable to read much lately. I indulged in some comfort listens, favorite books from my adolescence, and discovered a couple of good readers at Librivox.
I purchased Prisoner of Zenda from Audible and disliked the narrator so much that for the first time I returned a book to them. Andy Minter's narration from Librivox was far superior and those who like turn of the last century romance might give him a try.
I also listened to my Audible copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel and decided to move on to one of the sequels, which have not been professionally read so far as I can tell. Karen Savage at Librivox does a nice job with them, good cadences and inflections and reading swiftly. Her one flaw is that her character voices are not consistent; she differentiates between speakers in a conversation, but has a tendency to render the main speaker in a conversation in her own voice, which might not be the same as when the character is a minor participant in another conversation. This didn't seriously impact my enjoyment and she's a pleasant and competent reader.
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