Three Audiobooks to Listen to While Chasing a New Puppy

Meet Tater Tot!

The Fat Farm thrives on chaos so it’s only fitting that in the middle of calving season we brought home a 9 week old pug puppy. He is a sibling to our little guy Theo who joined the farm 18 months ago. He is precious, precocious, and an absolute delight. He has also made it impossible for me to sit still long enough to read a book with my eyeballs so I have leaned into the chaos and switched to audiobooks this past week. Here are three quick reviews of what I listened to this week and for all of them, I listened through Hoopla and Libby.

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

This book is insanely funny, incredibly dark, and is definitely not for the faint of heart. Fast paced, completely bonkers, and full of hilarious banter. It’s a dual narration, which is now my favorite type of audiobook narration. Each narrator performs their character’s parts as they happen-not changing each chapter. Both Elena Wolfe and Jacob Morgan gave top tier performances and I highly recommend listening to it if it’s available to you. But definitely use your headphones! This book is ridiculously hot. Full disclosure-I think it’s perfect until the ending. That last section really dragged on far longer than necessary, but I think it was to set up book 2 which comes out next month. Definitely check the content warnings! This is a dark, dark book.

Axes and O’s by Kayla Grosse

This is another wild one! It’s essentially eight and half hours of adventurous kink and self-exploration fueled by witty banter. It’s a really fun eight and half hours. It’s very fast paced, taking place over just a few days during a blizzard that keeps everyone confined inside a remote cabin. This is one where the insta-lust is written perfectly and the tension between the characters is palpable. Absolutely loved the characters of Fox and Morgan and how incredibly comfortable and competent they were in their relationship and life. Nathan was the perfect addition to their life and it was really refreshing for characters to be so open and honest with each other. Really enjoyed the narrators Grayson Owens, Stella Hunter and Stephen Dexter.

Candle and Crow by Kevin Hearne

It wasn’t all erotic romance this week. Candle and Crow is the third and final installment of the Ink & Sigil series and if you haven’t read the series yet, definitely check it out. It’s funny, witty, and very quirky. If you’re familiar with the Iron Druid series from Hearne, some of the characters overlap but it’s not necessary, although I recommend reading it because it’s awesome, to have read Iron Druid. This is book wraps up the story of Al MacBharrais and is the perfect conclusion to the series. Again, the narrator Luke Daniels is so talented and really made the book come to life. Highly, highly recommend listening to this one and if you do, don’t miss the bloopers at the end!

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Theodore

In April, we lost our little pug Dory and that loss left a giant hole in our hearts. She worked at the Library with me every day, visiting patrons and delighting the kids in the youth department. She was full of life and personality and while she loved nearly everyone, she definitely had her favorites. She was also my husband’s Pretty Little Princess and was hands down his favorite dog.

In October, we met this guy:

Theo at his first shawnee national forest vacation

Theodore was only 4 months old when we brought him home. All my plans for my newly relaxed schedule went completely out the window. I left my job at the Library to help balance my time raising our growing cattle herd and becoming the world’s Best Unpaid Intern at our partner’s farm with The Kid’s increasingly busy activity schedule, but instead it really became a full time job of teaching a curious little puppy not to chase the cows and horses.

So, between a new puppy, prepping a house for sale, a busy kid, and the holidays, I have had approximately 4 minutes to do something besides work. But, things are slowly starting to slow back down. For once, we don’t have an active renovation project (for at least a month) and the puppy is nearly potty trained so I should be able to get back on track with posting more book recs and my rambling reviews.

In 2024, I want to keep up my reading goal of not having any reading goals. I don’t want the pressure of finishing a certain number of books and I can never stick with any system of tracking everything I read. But, I would like to read through more of my own collection and focus on borrowing from the Library instead of focusing on new releases and advanced copies. If I’ve learned anything from my short time working in a Library, it’s that there more books published in a day than anyone could ever read in a lifetime and trying to stay current is an impossible task. My new Library has a much broader selection of audio and ebooks, as well as a huge physical collection, and I’ve been cranking through nearly a book a day on audio while many of my favorite podcasts were on holiday hiatus and I have loved many of them. So, be prepared for more regular posts (puppy willing) and I hope we all have a wonderful reading year.