{"id":22121,"date":"2023-06-13T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2024-06-02T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T12:29:49","slug":"a-treacherous-curse-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22121","title":{"rendered":"A Treacherous Curse, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Treacherous Curse<\/em>, Audio Book<\/a> (2018) Deanna Raybourn<\/a> narrated by Ang\u00e8le Masters (Veronica Speedwell)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in England in 1888<\/p>\n

Stoker blushed furiously. \u201cFor the love of God, put that thing away.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot imagine why you are so bashful on the subject of the male genitalia of Homo sapiens when you are the only one of us who can boast of owning it,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(I have pledged myself to honesty in these pages, gentle reader, so I will admit that in point of fact I had a rather ferocious wish to pry, but I had learnt through painful experience that Stoker responded far better to the oblique approach than to more direct methods.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no. She is an unreliable narrator, as she lies to herself all the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was human once,\u201d he said finally. \u201cShe walked and breathed and loved people and she had a name. Ankheset. It will be inscribed on the heart scarab that someone laid upon her to protect her in the afterlife. That ought to be respected instead of letting the rabble in to paw at her. She deserves to rest in peace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Recorded Books<\/p>\n

Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Treacherous Curse, Audio Book (2018) Deanna Raybourn narrated by Ang\u00e8le Masters (Veronica Speedwell) Set in England in 1888 Stoker blushed furiously. \u201cFor the love of God, put that thing away.\u201d \u201cI cannot imagine why you are so bashful on the subject of the male genitalia of Homo sapiens when you are the only one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12,37,30,204,33,8,148,41],"tags":[673,152,153,557],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-audio-book","category-british","category-good","category-historical","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","tag-angele-masters","tag-deanna-raybourn","tag-veronica-speedwell","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5KN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23793,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23793","url_meta":{"origin":22121,"position":0},"title":"An Impossible Impostor, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"July 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An Impossible Impostor, Audio Edition (2022) Deanna Raybourn narrated by Angele Masters (Veronica Speedwell #7) Set in England in 1900. 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