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16. After I said I ordered a used copy of The Shipping News I discovered that I messed up.

Reply to hermetic (Reply #12)

Sat Aug 8, 2015, 06:04 AM

Aug 2015

I ordered the audio book version by mistake—on cassette.

I don't believe we even have a functional cassette player. Maybe we do on an old boom box somewhere.

Anyway, I have never listened to an audio book.

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What are you reading the week of Sunday, August 2, 2015? [View all] hermetic Aug 2015 OP

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #1

Oops, forgot my needle hermetic Aug 2015 #2

I read that when it came out pscot Aug 2015 #3

"The Frozen Dead," Bernard Minier shenmue Aug 2015 #4

I ordered a used copy of The Shipping News. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #5

I guess it is just me. Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #6

You know, hermetic Aug 2015 #14

Collected Poems of W H Auden ananda Aug 2015 #7

I just finished Traitor's Purse ... ananda Aug 2015 #8

Thanks for your input hermetic Aug 2015 #13

Almost finished with Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell, then will get japple Aug 2015 #9

Killer Diller hermetic Aug 2015 #12

Clyde Edgerton is pretty funny. This is a sequel to Walking Across Egypt japple Aug 2015 #15

After I said I ordered a used copy of The Shipping News I discovered that I messed up. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #16

Oh dear, hermetic Aug 2015 #17

Thank you, hermetic. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #18

Just finished "Conversation in the Cathedral" eissa Aug 2015 #10

Thanks for joining in here hermetic Aug 2015 #11