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Finished up Katherine Kurtz's The King's Justice in the car and John Ringo's Under a Graveyard Sky at work. I finished Jonathan Stroud's The Whispering Skull a week ago.
I've been a Kurtz fan for a long time and unfortunately only about half of her Deryni books are available as ebooks. The Histories of King Kelson is only available as audiobooks, so I've been listening to them after reading them a long time ago. I had totally forgotten what happened in them. I had one of those audio moments where the car trip ended just as the story was hitting the climax, so I pulled the book off the shelf to see if how Duncan escaped being burned at the stake. A good book and a good reader.
John Ringo is one of those author that seem to bring out the extremes in the fan base. Some hate him, others love him. I like him, but sometimes he can go a bit far for me. I think that he's grown a bit in the Black Tide Rising series, of which Under a Graveyard Sky is the first. It's an interesting take on zombies and I enjoyed both the book and the reader, though I'm not sure how authentic his Australian accent is. Another audio book well worth getting.
Stroud's The Whispering Skull was very good. I like the reader a lot and am a big fan of Stroud (he wrote the Bartimaeus series) There most certainly will be another book in the Lockwood & Co series, because he ended the book with a major cliff hanger. I do find it pretty odd that some of Stroud's books aren't available in ebook.
Right now, I'm listening to Tinker (on recommendation here) in the car and the second book of the Black Tide Rising at work. I've read both books as ebooks. I would have to say that the vast majority of audiobooks that I listen to are books that I've already read in dead tree or ebook.
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