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   Reay (reay@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 00:39:56 JST Reay

   When I worked in a news environment years back, I found that (hold onto your butts) hearing hours of news a day was an emotional and spiritual grind, so sought out more comedy to offset it. Podcasts especially.

   Well, it won’t surprise you to find I’m looking for more comedy these days, plus trying to read (/listen to audiobooks… shut up, it’s still kind of reading) more.

   If anyone’s looking for good, funny audiobooks, I’d recommend any by Samantha Irby and at least All Things Aside by Iliza Shlesinger (the only one of hers I’ve tried out), both read by the authors, and SO good because of that.

   Added bonus to audiobooks: Apps like Libby let you borrow audiobooks from libraries and are nuanced enough that you can control their speed. Irby talks (reads?) a bit slowly for my tastes, so I notched those books up to an added speed of 15%.

   Do check out those books.

   And meanwhile, if you have any favourite comedy podcasts or funny books to recommend, please send them my way in the comments.

   #bookstodon

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 00:39:55 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     @reay IMHO audiobooks are 100% reading

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 05:52:31 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     @reay I hear you! I wish I could find the link to standup routine I saw. The comedian said, "'Oh, you only listened with your ears...' So? You only looked with your eyes! Why privilege one sense over another?"

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     Reay (reay@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 05:52:33 JST Reay

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     • Derek Caelin is writing a book

     @derek I get up in my head about it. Like, I’d seen a debate online years back about it and someone pointed out that reading a book and hearing a book activate much of the same parts of your brain and so what’s really the fundamental difference if we call listening to a book “reading”, but in a quick check online I can’t verify that and then I realize I’m WAY overthinking it and should just enjoy what I enjoy.

     … having said that, I’m totally calling it reading for the sake of seeing how many books I can get though (COUGHreadCOUGH) this year.