{"id":4848,"date":"2014-09-14T19:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:33:40","slug":"moon-over-soho-audible-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4848","title":{"rendered":"Moon Over Soho, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B009IBRQHM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B009IBRQHM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=P6NYRCTUPB6NYWD6\">Moon Over Soho<\/a><\/em>: Audible Version (2011\/2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/\/Books\/authors\/aaronovitch_ben.php\">Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> and Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B009IBRQHM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B009IBRQHM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=P6NYRCTUPB6NYWD6\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Moon-Over-Soho.jpg?resize=186%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Moon-Over-Soho.jpg?w=732&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Moon-Over-Soho.jpg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Moon-Over-Soho.jpg?resize=635%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s quite possible I&#8217;ve fallen a little bit in love with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, for the way he reads Ben Aaronovitch&#8217;s Peter Grant books.<\/p>\n<p>The story is good&#8211;I thoroughly enjoyed reading it&#8211;but listening? Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>He is really good at the voices and the accents (and there are multiple accents in the story) and just pulling me in. I like audio books, but generally, as long as it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve already read, I can stop them pretty easily and go on with whatever else needs to be done, or to drop into a book.<\/p>\n<p>Not this series. I found myself making reasons to listen to the book, because it is just that good.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Produced by Audible<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Over Soho: Audible Version (2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch and Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith It&#8217;s quite possible I&#8217;ve fallen a little bit in love with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, for the way he reads Ben Aaronovitch&#8217;s Peter Grant books. The story is good&#8211;I thoroughly enjoyed reading it&#8211;but listening? Amazing. He is really good at the voices and the [&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":true,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,37,42,148,34],"tags":[57,482,587,58],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-10","category-audio-book","category-police","category-queer","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-kobna-holdbrook-smith","tag-peter-grant","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1gc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20575,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20575","url_meta":{"origin":4848,"position":0},"title":"Moon Over Soho, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"August 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Moon Over Soho, Audio Edition (2011) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith This book has my hands-down all-time favorite quote. \u201cYou can\u2019t die of jazz,\u201d said Dr. Walid. \u201cCan you?\u201d I thought of Fats Navarro, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker who, when he died, was mistaken by a coroner for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Moon Over Soho","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Moon-Over-Soho.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4827,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4827","url_meta":{"origin":4848,"position":1},"title":"Midnight Riot, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Midnight Riot (2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith I've had audio books that I've thoroughly enjoyed before, but until now, I'd not had the experience of a reader making a book better. 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I tore through all the available books when I first came across the series, and have been waiting impatiently for the next book in the series, but the narration\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;10\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"10\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/10-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Whispers-Under-Ground.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}