{"id":17369,"date":"2021-06-06T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=17369"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:35:06","slug":"tales-from-the-folly-a-rivers-of-london-short-story-collection-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17369","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection<\/a><\/em> (2020) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by: the author, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ben Elliot, Felix Grainger, Sam Peter Jackson, Alex Kingston, Shvorne Marks, and Penelope Rawlins<\/p>\n

\"Tales<\/a>PART ONE: THE PETER GRANT STORIES<\/strong>
\nThe Home Crowd Advantage
\nThe Domestic
\nThe Cockpit
\nThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny
\nKing of The Rats
\nA Rare Book of Cunning Device
\nPART TWO: THE OTHERS\u2019 STORIES<\/strong>
\nA Dedicated Follower of Fashion
\nFavourite Uncle
\nVanessa Sommer\u2019s Other Christmas List
\nThree Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
\nMoment One: London September 1966
\nMoment Two: Reynolds\u2014 Florence, Az. 2014
\nMoment Three: Tobias Winter\u2014 Meckenheim 2012<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m interested in history,\u2019 I said. \u2018Why don\u2019t you tell me what happened.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Why would a young man like you be interested in history?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018So I can avoid repeating it.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve always found Toby a pretty reliable magic detector. I\u2019ve actually done controlled laboratory experiments that indicate that he can detect magical activity up to ten metres away, although false positives can be generated by cats, other dogs and the remote possibility of a sausage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Tell me that wasn\u2019t a spider?\u2019 said Ms Winstanley in a deceptively calm tone. <\/p>\n

\u2018Can\u2019t have been,\u2019 I said. <\/p>\n

\u2018Thank god for that,\u2019 she said. \u2018Can\u2019t stand spiders.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018It was too big,\u2019 I said. \u2018You can\u2019t scale an exoskeleton up that far.\u2019 The inverse square law can be such a comfort sometimes. Plus I definitely remembered something about gas diffusion and box lungs or something like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I looked up to find that the boy had dug a worm out of the soil and was holding it up to show us. Once he was sure he had our attention he dangled the worm over his open mouth and made as if to eat it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m from a big country family with uncounted nieces and nephews who I\u2019ve been \u2018volunteered\u2019 to babysit over the years so I know a teasing bluff when I see it, but Victor was an only child. <\/p>\n

\u2018Don\u2019t eat that,\u2019 he said and scrambled down the bank and plucked the worm out of the boy\u2019s hands. \u2018We need those to maintain the soil matrix.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Tantor Audio
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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