{"id":10493,"date":"2018-04-24T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:28:54","slug":"the-rook-audible-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10493","title":{"rendered":"The Rook, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HXyAWZ\">The Rook<\/a><\/em>, Audible Version (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/OMalley_Daniel.php\">Daniel O&#8217;Malley<\/a> narrated by Susan Duerden <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HXyAWZ\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TheRook-e1511011839562.png?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8888\" \/><\/a>Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a park, surrounded by bodies, with no idea who she is. <\/p>\n<p>I really do like this story a lot. It&#8217;s so dryly funny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The meeting with the people from accounting proved spectacularly uninteresting as Myfanwy learned how cheaply one could surreptitiously remove plague-infected bodies and dissect them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What Thurow had done was in the best traditions of the British Empire: she had simultaneously discovered a species and gone to war with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the narration is wonderful. I very much enjoyed the voices and how, despite all the dialog, it was relatively easy to keep people separate.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very fun book, and I highly recommend it.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Hachette Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rook, Audible Version (2012) Daniel O&#8217;Malley narrated by Susan Duerden Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a park, surrounded by bodies, with no idea who she is. I really do like this story a lot. It&#8217;s so dryly funny. The meeting with the people from accounting proved spectacularly uninteresting as Myfanwy learned how cheaply one could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,37,30,2,48,8,41,34],"tags":[91,479],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-audio-book","category-british","category-fantasy","category-female","category-mystery","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-daniel-omalley","tag-susan-duerden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2Jf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20166,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20166","url_meta":{"origin":10493,"position":0},"title":"The Rook, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rook, Audio Edition (2012) Daniel O'Malley narrated by Susan Duerden This book. 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